On April 10, 2022, SAOS Ferries announced that its latest acquisition ferry MISHI (former MISHIMA) will be renamed THE LADY.
She was purchased from Mishima Mura (M-Line) in June 2021 and currently undergoing a major conversion at Drapetsona Repair Zone to carry 700 passengers and 150 cars.
She is expected to be introduced on the Dodecanese inter-island service.
United Kingdom’s CMA (Competition and Markets Authority) is investigating whether a capacity sharing agreement between P&O Ferries and DFDS, on the Dover-Calais route has potential to prevent, restrict or distort competition within the UK.
The investigation has been launched on 11 November 2021.
The P&O and DFDS freight space agreement commenced on 7 November. Drivers are allowed to embark on the next available ferry, either from DFDS or P&O.
If going with DFDS or P&O, truck drivers have a ferry every 37 minutes.
Competitor Irish Ferries will have a departure every 2 ½ hours, once the second ship enters the route. [FSN Week 45]
Another competitor is GetLink, the ‘tunnel’.
Back in 2013, the UK Competition Commission ruled that Eurotunnel, which leased the three MyFerryLink vessels to the SCOP, could no longer operate ferry services from Dover.
Reason: the proportion of the cross-Channel market that Eurotunnel held as a result.
In 2015 Eurotunnel sold ropax ferries RODIN and BERLIOZ to DFDS.
From week 47 to week 49, the LNG RoPax VISBORG will embark on a planned shipyard visit in Landskrona.
In connection with this, the ship will also change its name to VISBY. (Destination Gotland’s newest ships are always named VISBY and GOTLAND.
The older VISBY will have its new name in January 2022: VISBORG. She is actually on a charter to DFDS for the France-Ireland service.
According to SAOS Ferries, its latest acquisition from Japan, ferry MISHI (former MISHIMA) is on her way to Greece.
She was purchased from Mishima Mura (M-Line) in June 2021 and is expected to be converted at the Perama Repair Zone to carry 700 passengers and 150 cars.
