TNormally, one DFDS cruise ferry is in Oslo and one in Copenhagen. Exceptionally both CROWN SEAWAYS and PEARL SEAWAYS were in Copenhagen, after the first returned from drydock.
The European Commission has found Croatian plans to grant Uljanik shipyard a State guarantee for a €96 million short-term loan are in line with EU State aid rules. The measure will allow the company to meet urgent liquidity needs while preparing a restructuring plan.
The Commission found that the aid is necessary to prevent Uljanik from going out of business immediately and avoid significant (1,800) job losses. Moreover, the company’s liquidity needs over the next months are based on reasonable assumptions and will be monitored by an independent auditor on the basis of weekly liquidity plans. Finally, Croatia committed to notify a restructuring plan for the company within a maximum of six months.
Uljanik has several ships on order or under construction, such as ro-ro’s for CLdN and an expedition cruise yacht for Scenic.
Photo: Uljanik
Dover has again seen a rise of the freight traffic, with more than 2.6 million units transiting the British port. It is an all time high.
Car traffic has gone up slightly, compared to the year before.
The number of passengers went down to 11.7 million, the lowest figure since 1985.
Photo Port of Dover
With numerous ferry projects lined up in the not so distant future, Danish naval architects OSK-ShipTech A/S welcome a very experienced naval architect with more than 18 years of design experience: German Naval Architect Carsten Ortloff.
He will join OSK-ShipTech in February. Carsten comes from Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, where he has held the role of responsible naval architect for several ro-ro and ro-pax projects (Smyril Line, BC Ferries, Irish Ferries, CMAL…).
The general order increase is spilling over to sister company Steen Friis Design, who is experiencing high demand for interior design services and interior concepts. The company is looking to hire more interior designers.
C-Job Naval Architects has delivered the concept design of a series of five sustainable car and passenger ferries to the City of Amsterdam. The 41m vessels will operate 100% on electricity.
The electric ferries will recharge their batteries during the unloading and loading of passengers and vehicles. This will only take 4 minutes, with no overnight charging required. To guarantee continuous operation the vessels will also have a diesel generator.
The ferries can carry up to 20 cars, four trucks or 400 passengers.
Seatruck Ferries’ volume across the three routes increased at just over 10% compared with an overall market growth of 3.9%.
Seatruck now operates 76 departures per week on their three Irish Sea routes:
- Heysham – Warrenpoint
- Heysham – Dublin
- Liverpool – Dublin
Seatruck believe that the worsening truck driver shortage is leading to a growth in unaccompanied trailer shipments. By shipping trailer only, from ports which reduce road mileage compared with the traditional transit through Wales or Scotland, operators can make significant door to door savings in what is an increasingly competitive logistics landscape, says Seatruck.
In the coming weeks a new £7m loading ramp will be installed at Heysham Port.
Photo: Gordon Hislip
People smugglers have found a new way to get migrants on ferries to the UK. Since many years migrants try to get illegally in Britain by hiding in lorries and containers in Continental ports like Calais and Zeebrugge. The latter is also the biggest port for the handling of new cars. It has been discovered that more migrants try to hide in new cars to get in Britain, since travelling unseen in trucks has been made almost impossible.
How to recognize a car bound for the UK? It is very simple: the steering wheel is on the right hand side.
Ro-pax VISBORG, under construction in China, will be powered by LNG. Destination Gotland signed a contract with Nauticor, which will supply LNG via its sister company AGA that operates the Linde Group’s LNG terminal in Nynäshamn.
Located in Hamburg, Nauticor GmbH & Co. KG is a leading provider of LNG as marine fuel.
Balearia is prepared to wait for La Naval’s resurrection
Deia writes that Balearia did not cancel the contract with LaNaval for a 1+1 newbuilding order, after the yard went bankrupt. The order is now frozen pending talks with investors.
Torbjørn Kjus, Chief Oil Analyst at DNB, an important global shipping bank, gives his thoughts on the global sulphur cap change regarding both the fuel prices and on the use of marine exhaust gas cleaning technology.
Photo: Mike Louagie