Commuter ferry KONGEN (‘king’ in Norwegian) has emerged from Horten Ship Repair as an electric passenger ferry.
Norled, operator of the Nesodden – Aker Brygge (Oslo) connection decided in October last year to electrify the three ferries, KONGEN, DRONNINGEN and PRINSEN.
The two other boats will be ready in December 2019 and April 2020.
The German shipyard Flensburger-Schiffbau-Gesellschaft has just completed and delivered a vessel renamed LEEVSTEN, which is the seventh ro-ro ship handed over to SIEM.
Several media reported recently that Fratelli Onorato could be the charterer of this unit (since the fifth and the sixth, respectively renamed ALF POLLAK and MARIA GRAZIA ONORATO had been bare boat chartered to the Vincenzo Onorato-controlled company) but several sources in Italy deny this possibility, even if some negotiations were effectively ongoing in the recent past and the light blue coloured funnel of the vessel may be a clear sign of that.
The eighth vessel for Siem will be launched at the end of October at the same shipyard based in Flensburg.
Investor Lars Windhorst has completely taken over the Flensburg shipbuilding company. His investment company Tennor Holding B.V. confirmed it has now become the sole owner of the German shipyard FSG, after acquiring all remaining shares in FSG from the former owners, Siem Europe Sarl.
In February of this year, Tennor (formerly Sapinda Holding) became the principal shareholder.
Siem Europe will continue to work closely with Tennor alongside other FSG customers and suppliers to ensure the long term growth and prosperity of the business.
As expected, DFDS agreed to sell ro-pax LIVERPOOL SEAWAYS to La Méridionale.
LIVERPOOL SEAWAYS is currently deployed in DFDS’ Baltic route network and is planned to be replaced by a ferry from DFDS’ existing fleet.
Completion of the sale is agreed for April 2020 with proceeds of around DKK 200m and an expected accounting profit of around DKK 100m to be recorded under Special items.
P&O Ferries will launch a new Calais – Tilbury -Calais daily service operating from end September 2019. The company has announced this in a letter to their freight customers.
The service will provide space for 12 self-drive tractor-trailers and 90 unaccompanied trailers or containers per sailing. The ship is planned to arrive in Tilbury daily at 04:30 enabling the driver to be on the M25 before 06:00.
The new route gives quick and direct access to the M25 London markets, the South of England and also all the Regional Distribution centres north of London / along the M1 corridor up to Birmingham. This route saves up to 75 miles / 125 km each way versus the traditional Dover-Calais crossing.
The second Sylt ferry to be operated by the Flensburg-based shipping company Römö-Sylt Linie will operate under the name RÖMÖEXPRESS.
FRS announced in July that they had bought a second car ferry for their ferry connection to Sylt, the TRESFJORD.
The handover of the former TRESFJORD took place last Monday (2 September) in Molde, Norway. Currently the ferry is on its way to Tallinn. Shipyard BLRT Group will adapt the ship for the port facilities in Havneby (Römö) and List (Sylt).
On 4 November she will join SYLTEXPRESS, to meet the demand in connection with the construction works on the Hindenburg Dam.
The photo was taken on Tuesday 3 September, when RÖMÖEXPRESS passed Ålesund.
Balearia’s High-Speed Craft PINAR DEL RIO will be scrapped in the port of Denia. The seacat hit rocks on 17 August, after which it was taking water. Everybody was safely evacuated but the damage to the vessel was serious.
In agreement with the insurance company and the port captain it was decided to scrap the vessel on site.
AS Tallink Grupp Statistics For August 2019
Tallink Grupp breaks one million passengers per month mark for the third month in a row.
In August 2019, AS Tallink Grupp transported:
Key figures:
No Smoking
The PACA region (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur) has announced on 5 September its intention to eliminate the exhaust of all cruise and ferries calling at the ports of Marseille, Toulon and Nice by investing in shore power.
A budget of EUR 30 million has been allocated under the name “Escales zéro fumée” (no smoke calls). The money will go into shore power systems for the cruise and ferry terminals and to the shipowners.
