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Oct 12
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Stena Line announces a new ferry route on the Baltic Sea

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Stena is investing in a new route from Poland to Sweden: Gdynia-Nynäshamn.
The new line will commence operations on October 16, with three round trips a week.
The 18-hour crossing will be operated by 1,625 lane meter ro-ro ELISABETH RUSS.
Stena Line’s CEO Niclas Mårtensson said that the demand for freight capacity in the Baltic Sea has been growing steadily over the last number of years.
Stena Line has already been operating a route from Gdynia to Sweden for over 20 years, with Karlskrona as Swedish port.

Photo © Stena Line

Oct 12
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Irish Ferries chooses W.B. YEATS as the name of its new ferry

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Irish Ferries’s new €144 million ferry will be christened W.B. YEATS, after Ireland’s most-loved poet.
The name was chosen after it had drawn ‘strong support’ from the public in a competition that attracted nearly 100,000 entries.
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. The choice continues the tradition adopted by the company of selecting names drawn from the world of Irish literature.

Photo © Irish Ferries

Sep 28
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New Minister-President takes the ferry for his first foreign visit 

By | 2017 Newsletter week 39 | No Comments

Daniel Günther, the new minister-president of Schleswig-Holstein, has had a meeting with Scandlines’ CEO Søren Poulsgaard Jensen on board the hybrid ferry SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN (26 September). He started his first trip abroad, to Denmark, via the route Puttgarden-Rødby. Among the topics discussed were the Green Agenda of Scandlines and the challenges facing the ferry company in view of the planning of the fixed Fehmarnbelt link. 

Photo: Scandlines 

Sep 21
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New Croatian ferry launched for Rab Island

By | 2017 Newsletter week 38 | No Comments

A new ferry was launched at the Croatian Kraljevica shipyard, on September 16. It was a significant day for both the shipyard and its owner Dalmont, as it marked the return of large ship construction to Kraljevica, after the former state shipyard was closed in 2012.

The ship with the name ČETIRI ZVONIKA  (‘four bells’) will be delivered at the end of the year, and is due to serve the Mišnjak-Stinica route to the island of Rab as from spring next year. It is going to be operated by local ferry company Rapska plovidba.

Photo: M. Gracin

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Sep 07
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BLUE STAR PATMOS has been freed

By | 2017 Newsletter week 36 | No Comments

Almost one week after the grounding near Ios, ro-pax ferry BLUE STAR PATMOS was refloated. After discharging the cars and trucks in Ios, she will sail to the Piraeus area, for repairs.
In the press and social media Blue Star Ferries has been praised for the professional way of handling the incident.