The construction of the shorepower supply plant for the ferries of Color Linehas started in the Port of Kiel
Continued Progress In Freight Traffic For Scandlines Helsingborg-Helsingör
Freight traffic volumes continued to grow in Q3 on Scandlines Helsingborg-Helsingör, which accounted for the largest share of growth in freight traffic on Öresund this quarter as well.
While the number of transported passengers and cars declined, due to the unusually warm summer among other things, the ferries’ precision and capacity utilisation remained high.
- Trends
- +6% trucks
- +0% 12,800 sailings
- -4% cars
- -8% buses
HH Ferries Group has completed the last adjustments of the charging and battery installations, allowing AURORA and TYCHO BRAHE to be officially inaugurated as the world’s largest battery-powered passenger ferries at an event on 9 November.
Interferry Welcomes EEDI Status Quo For Ro-Ro Vessels
Interferry has welcomed the decision by the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) to uphold previously agreed sector-specific Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) targets for ro-ro passenger and ro-ro freight vessels.
LNG Ro-Ro Ferry For Kaliningrad Region Included In Development Programme
The construction of an LNG-powered ro-ro ferry for the Ust-Luga Baltijsk Line has been included into the Russian federal programme for the Kaliningrad Region. The ship is a 200m LNG-powered ro-ro ferry of Arc4 class, with an enclosed deck for railcars and open upper deck for trailers and trucks.
The vessel will have a double-screw propulsion plant. It can be bunkered simultaneously from four mobile units or from a coastal LNG bunker base. The ship is of a CNF19M design, by Marine Engineering Bureau.
- La Méridionale will submit an offer for the Public Service contract for ferry services between mainland France and Corsica. The company will not tender with Corsica Linea but will go solo.
- Balearia’s VISEMAR ONE has been renamed HEDY LAMARR.
- During two weeks Hellenic Seaways ro-pax NISSOS CHIOS will be used by Africa Morocco Link on Algeciras-Tanger Med. Then she will be chartered for 3 months by the Baleria for the route Dénia-Ibiza-Palma.
- Although not a ferry, we would like to inform our readers that Hurtigruten has ordered a third expedition cruise vessel.
Molslinjen’s EXPRESS 4 Soon Going On Sea Trials
Austal has successfully launched the Auto Express 109m high-speed ro-pax ferry EXPRESS 4 for Molslinjen.
This major project milestone involved the vessel being launched into the water for the first time and follows the successful roll-out and joining of the hull and superstructure in August. The vessel is now undergoing final preparations to begin sea trials as part of the acceptance and handover process.
Handover date is planned for January 2019.
This is a video about the proposed Isle of Man Ferry Terminal in Liverpool, which will be situated at Princes Half Tide Dock, 800 metres downriver from the current Pier Head facility within the £5 billion Liverpool Waters regeneration scheme.
A planning application is due to be submitted in November 2018.
Last weekend I passed the English Channel on my way from Rouen to Antwerp. This one single picture of P&O’s SPIRIT OF BRITAIN is probably a good illustration for Brexit. Comes rain or comes shine?
Canada’s first fully-electric ferries are being built by Netherlands-based Damen Shipyards for the province of Ontario. The ferries will sail Canada’s Great Lakes and also be ice-class.
Bluferries, the Italian shipping company controlled by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana and active on the two sides of the Strait of Messina, received this week the new ferry TRINACRIA (ex OKEANOS I). She has been acquired from Ocean Freedom Shipping Company and built in Greece by Perama-based Megatechnica shipyard.
As from next December this new vessel will enter into service between the ports of Messina and Villa San Giovanni.
Some particulars: 400 passengers, 150 cars or 23 trucks. Overall length 104m. Price €14.5 million.
TRINACRIA will be followed in 2020 by a sister ship due to be built by the same shipyard in Greece. Blueferries officially revealed to have exercised the option for a second vessel at the same price.
Ferrando & Massone of Genoa acted as broker of the deal.
