The contract for roro LINK STAR with UPM has been extended until end September 2021.
In its own magazine (Flaskposten), Godby Shipping says that the rates reflect the market situation and are low or very low.
- BALTICA: Sea-Cargo, January – April 2021 + options
- MISANA and MISIDA: Sea-Cargo, until December 2021 + options
- LINK STAR: UPM-Kymmene, until December 2020
- MISTRAL: Smyril, until March 2021 + option until December
- MIDAS: Accordia Shipping, until December 2021
- MIMER: CMA CGM, until December 2021
The chartering situation of the Godby Shipping Fleet is as follows
- BALTICA unemployed in Mariehamn
- MIDAS Wagenborg liner traffic Riga-Oxelösund until September 2020
- MISTRAL t/c to Smyril until October 2020 + options
- LINK STAR t/c to UPM-Kymmene until December 2020
- MIMER t/c to CMA CGM December 2021
- MISANA t/c Sea-Cargo December 2021 + options
- MISIDA t/c to P&O until October and thereafter t/c to Sea-Cargo until December 2021 + options
Eckerö Reopens Buffet
Until 25 June Eckerö serves a summer menu and breakfast that have been modified for safety and hygienic reasons.
As of 26 June, the company returns to normal buffet dining, with a reduced number of customer seats.
Naviera Armas Trasmediterránea will reactivate the Ceuta – Algeciras – Ceuta line starting June 22
After the virus-forced suspension, Naviera Armas Trasmediterránea will restart the route to the Spanish Autonomous City of Ceuta with high-speed ropax catamaran CIUDAD DE CEUTA.
Godby Shipping: Newbuilding Project Delayed
In a message on its social media, Godby Shipping says that, “global lockdown has made the demand for roro vessels almost disappear.”
“At present only MIMER and LINK STAR are trading and it remains uncertain when and how all vessels will be back in traffic.”
“Before the downturn the office was manned to handle at least seven vessels and the first stage of a newbuilding project. The newbuilding project is now at least 2-3 years into the future and the focus is to survive.”
As from July 10, several of the office staff will leave the company.
Mariehamn-based ro-ro company Godby Shipping has announced that an agreement to sell one of their eight vessels, the MIRANDA, has been signed.
Delivery will take place in January 2018. MIRANDA and MISANA Miranda (1999) are currently time chartered to Stena RoRo but relet to Transfennica and used in their liner service on the Baltic Sea and North Sea.
Eva Mikkola Karlström told the magazine Sjöfartstidningen that Godby Shipping’s goal is to build two new vessels, probably in China, and tailor-made for a specific customer.
Photo: Godby Shipping / Pär-Henrik-Sjöström