Last year 199,657 passengers travelled with Wasaline, a rise of 8.4%
Passenger vehicles increased by 8.3%.
Freight lane meters increased by 26.6%.
Finnlines urged their customers to cancel the reservation of cargo space they have made but will not use. The cancellation needs to be made no later than two hours before the departure of the vessel, in Germany-Russia service four hours before the departure. If the reservation is cancelled later than that, or not cancelled at all, Finnlines is going to charge €150 per every no-show unit of trailers, lorries and low-loaders.
This fee is applied on all Finnlines routes, except on FinnLink and NordöLink which have their own policies.
Subsidies will help Port of Gdansk to build a new ferry berth
The Port of Gdansk Authority is one of two Polish companies to receive funds from the Connecting Europe Facility. The €20 million will be used to build a new ro-ro berth in the outer port.
The American Petroleum Institute (API) reported several large draws of barrels of United States crude oil inventories. These were much larger than what was expected by analysts.
By 2021, Norway will have 60 ferries running on batteries. Now we must find a standard solution for charging, says Edvard Sandvik, Head of the Ferry Division in Vegdirektoratet (Road Directorate).
Photo: Mike Louagie
The autonomous government of Madeira (Portugal) announced a new international public tender for a ferry service connecting the archipelago to the Portuguese mainland.
The announcement comes after the deadline for previous tenders passed without a single bid submitted.
The concession is for operating a 300-passenger ro-pax ferry between Funchal and the Portuguese mainland. The return journey should be made once a week.
Photo: Port of Funchal – Mike Louagie
Photo: Apostolos Kaknis
Former MOBY LOVE has been spotted in drydock in Piraeus. She’s being refurbished for an unknown route to be operated by Med Lines, and she will be renamed AIOLOS. She was built in 1975 as SAINT ELOI, and operated as a train ferry on the Channel.
She was sold old to Portucalence Shipping Co. Ltd, a Greek company which operated the EXPRESS SANTORINI in the Acores.
The same company also acquired MOBY BABY.
- The new ro-pax ferry for Molslinjen will be named HAMMERSHUS. There have been three ships with that name on the Bornholm service. The Rauma shipyard will hand over the vessel at the end of June.
- Fjord Line’s OSLOFJORD is at Hirtshals for refit. Her duty-free shop is being expanded by 600m2. Shopping is very important on the route Sandefjord-Strömstad.
- Trasmediterranea’s ro-pax ferry ALMARIYA has been spotted doing sea trials. The ship was berthed in Almeria since September after an engine breakdown.
- P&O Ferries have chartered ro-ro NEPTUNE DYNAMIS. This refit relief vessel will be covering Hull-Zeebrugge for the next 2 months.
- Brittany Ferries has appointed Simon Johnson as interim group commercial director. Simon previously worked at P&O Ferries as passenger services director and later on as maritime consultant. Brittany Ferries group commercial director Mike Bevens left the company at Christmas.
- DFDS changed terminals in Esbjerg just before Christmas.
- Red Funnel has announced that Kevin George, the current Chief Executive Officer, is to be appointed as Chairman of the Group. The announcement follows the restructuring of the Board following the acquisition of the Group by a consortium of UK and Canadian pension funds in July last year and the recent appointment of a number of Non-Executive Directors.
- TT Line’s PETER PAN is being lengthened in Bremerhaven, by insertion of a 30m section.
In the morning of January 6 the small car ferry was pushed towards rocks at the entrance to the port of Madalena on the island of Pico.
The 61 passengers and nine crewmembers had to be evacuated via the MES.
The ship, operated by Atlantico Line, was covering the route between Horta on the island of Faial, one of the nine islands that make up the Azores archipelago, and Madalena. This small ferry can carry 8 cars and 344 passengers.
Reason for the crash is unknown. The weather was bad with large waves.
Her sister vessel is out of service for refit. The inter-island service is being maintained by passenger-only ferries CRUZEIRO DO CANAL and CRUZEIRO DAS ILHAS.
From January to November, 543,000 ro-ro-units were handled in the port of Gothenburg, compared to 535,000 in 2016 in total. It is clear that 2017 will be the third straight year with increased ro-ro-volumes in the port of Gothenburg.
In Gothenburg, ro-ro traffic is the domain of the shipping companies CLdN, DFDS, Stena Line and SOL.
Photo: Port of Gothenburg
Helen Deeble CBE will be stepping down as CEO of the P&O Ferries Division, effective 31 December 2017.
Mrs Deeble became CFO of P&O Stena Line in 1998 and COO in 2004. She was appointed CEO on the takeover by Dubai World in 2006.
Under her leadership, the Company has grown into a £1 billion turnover per annum ferry and logistics business consisting of P&O Ferries and the logistics arm, P&O Ferrymasters.
Her role will be taken over by Managing Director Janette Bell.
