The ferry EXCELLENT, owned and operated by Grandi Navi Veloci, has reached the port of Messina this week for some repairs due to be performed by Palumbo shipyard.
The vessel collided with the quay and a gantry crane in the port of Barcelona on 31 October. The crane capsized and took fire.
GNV said in a statement that extreme strong winds and sea currents prevented the ship from docking, eventually pushing it against the port’s crane.
The impact damaged the bulbous bow.
The modernisation of Silja Line’s ships continues when SILJA SERENADE, operating on Helsinki-Stockholm route, will be docked in Naantali from 11 to 23 November.
Which are the areas which will be changed drastically?
The sister ship SILJA SYMPHONY will undergo a similar modernisation in January.
Interior architect: Heikki Mattila (Aprocos).
Chinese Weidong Ferry handed over the ro-pax ferry NEW GOLDEN BRIDGE II to Greek A-Ship Management (Arkoumanis). On 5 November the ferry was seen south of Hong Kong and was already renamed GOLDEN BRIDGE and reflagged to Cyprus.
She was reported to be Perama bound.
With a gross tonnage of more than 26,000 and a length of 187m this ferry is quite large.
She was built in Japan in 1990, and recently operated between China and South Korea.
Finnlines Continues To Be A Strong Performer
Finnlines doesn’t stop to impress by its excellent results.
First nine months:
+10.7% Revenue (EUR 447.9 million)
+7.1% EBITDA (EUR 129.0 million)
+10.9% Result (EUR 75.3 million)
Q3: Best ever Q3 result again
+9.4% Revenue (EUR 158.8 million)
-0.2% EBITDA (EUR 50.6 million)
+1.5% Result (EUR 33.0 million)
The Grimaldi Group has three modern and green ro-ro vessels on order, which will add up another 17,500 lane metres to their Finnlines services. They are expected to enter service in three to four years time.
Tallink Grupp has announced its unaudited financial results for Q3 and first nine months of 2018.
Q3
+1.2% passengers (2.9 million passengers)
+0.3% revenue (EUR 283.6 million)
-3.6% unaudited net profit (EUR 46.1 million)
Comment:
Unaudited 9-month interim statement
+0.9% passengers (7.5 million passengers)
-7.9% net profit (EUR 41.8 million)
-1.5% unaudited revenue (EUR 723.2 million)
Comment:
In October 2018 AS Tallink Grupp transported 785,583 passengers, which is a 2.8% decrease compared to October 2017.
The number of cargo units increased by 4.8% to 36,666 units and the number of passenger vehicles decreased by 8.0% to 82 882 units.
Especially the passenger traffic between Estonia and Finland, and Estonia-Sweden went down.
IMO Adopted Action Plan To Address Marine Plastic Litter From Ships
IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) adopted on 26 October the action plan, to contribute to the global solution for preventing marine plastic litter entering the oceans through ship-based activities.
UK Government Preparing For A ‘No Deal’ EU Exit
The UK government has prepared two guides if the country leaves the EU without an agreement on 29 March 2019: a guide for importing, and a guide for exporting.
A hard rexit means that UK businesses will have to apply customs, excise and VAT procedures to goods traded with the EU, in the same way that already applies for goods traded outside of the EU.
Trading partners in the EU will also have to apply customs, excise and VAT procedures to goods received from the UK, in the same way that they do for goods received from outside of the EU.
More can be found in these two guides:
DNV GL has issued a new white paper assessing a range of alternative fuels and technologies. Titled “Alternative fuels and technologies for greener shipping”, the paper examines the cost, availability, regulatory challenges and environmental benefits of alternative fuels and technologies.
IMO adopts carriage ban on non-compliant fuel from March 2020 and discusses amendments to EEDI requirements. The following is a summary of the most relevant decisions made by MEPC 73, held on 22-26 October 2018 in London.
