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INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS

By 2019 Newsletter week 22

Monthly Message from Interferry’s CEO, Mike Corrigan Interferry Outcome of MEPC74

As a result of our partnership with DNV GL, Interferry is pleased to provide its members with DNV GL’s overview of IMO developments in their MAY 2019 IMO MARINE ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION COMMITTEE report and MAY 2019 TECHNICAL AND REGULATORY NEWS report.

With regards to the impact of MEPC74 on the ferry industry, Interferry’s Director of Regulatory Affairs, Johan Roos, highlights four developments:

  • Clear progress on current and future GHG requirements
  • The 2020 global sulphur cap
  • Discharge water from scrubbers
  • Potential new requirement for sewage treatment plants
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European Ports Are A Strategic Partner In Building A Sustainable, Competitive And Smart Europe

By 2019 Newsletter week 22

In view of the European elections, which will lead to a new Commission, a new European Parliament and a new vision for Europe, European ports have prepared a memorandum emphasising the role port managing bodies can play as facilitators of the port ecosystem. The ESPO memorandum identifies ten priorities, ten fields of action and importance for the next five years.

The memorandum has been presented during the ESPO annual conference in Livorno.

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INTERESTING

By 2019 Newsletter week 22

What Happens When 30 Design Students Spend 3 Days On A Ferry?

OICL (Ocean Industries Concept Lab) is a research group in Norway focusing on innovation challenges facing the Maritime, Offshore and Subsea industries. They are based at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and combine new technology with a user-centered design approach.

Field studies are an important method that may help in the design of more user-friendly ships. Therefore OICL sent 30 students to spend time on the DFDS Ferry between Oslo and Copenhagen.

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TECHNOLOGY

By 2019 Newsletter week 22

Bunker Rating Tool Brings Transparency in the Bunkers Industry

DFDS has begun to use BunkerTrust, a service which allows shipping companies to judge and view other people’s ratings of suppliers and bunkers.

Today, about 250 ships rate their bunkers deliveries on a regular basis via BunkerTrust, and DFDS is among the 23 shipowners using the platform.

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IN THE MEDIA

By 2019 Newsletter week 22

DFDS To Take Over the Ro-Ro Service from Turkish Company Alternative Transport

Alternative Transport is experiencing financial difficulties. The Turkish company announced to stop operating the route between Sète, France and Cesme, Turkey. To assure its continuation, DFDS will start to run the route as from 1 July.

The route represents 20,000 to 25,000 trucks a year.

DFDS will test the route for six months, with two sailings a week.

Two 310-unit vessels will be put on the route.

It also means Toulon will lose one of the three weekly calls.

Alternative Transport operated two ships: FADIQ and AYSHE. The first is still sailing on the route. The latter is in Perama.

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SHORT NEWS

By 2019 Newsletter week 22

Liberty Lines Received Another High-Speed Craft from Liberty Shipyard

A new high-speed craft called CARMINE has just been delivered to the Sicilian ferry company Liberty Lines from Liberty Shipyard (formerly known as HSC Shipyard) based in the port of Trapani.

The unit in question is part of the Admiral 250 series and is a sister ship of the hydrofoils renamed AMMARÌ, CARLO MORACE and CARMEN M.

This high-speed vessel has a capacity for 250 passengers.

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New LNG Vessels Rederij Doeksen Arrived on 29 May in Harlingen

By 2019 Newsletter week 22

The two new LNG vessels for Rederij Doeksen arrived in Harlingen on Wednesday 29 May, all the way from Vietnam. They were carried by heavy lift vessel SUN RISE.

The catamarans will be towed to Harlingen, where the remaining work will be done at Nesta.

From 7 January 2020 the vessels will be structurally deployed on the Terschelling and Vlieland lines

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A Glorious Name

By 2019 Newsletter week 22

This past spring, Viking Line held a major competition to come up with a name for the line’s new cruise ship. Thousands suggestions were received from Sweden, Finland, Åland and the rest of the world. Of these, ten finalists were chosen, which some 30,000 people have now voted on. Viking Line announced that the new vessel will be named VIKING GLORY.

  • After having cancelled its newbuilding 531 at the Croation Uljanik yard, CLdN now had the legal possibility to cancel sistership 532, which it did.
  • CORSICA EXPRESS THREE, Corsica Sardinia Ferries’ high-speed monohull that connects Piombino to Portoferraio in 40 minutes, started its summer operations (29 May – 30 September).