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The 2013, Bangladesh-built ISEFJORD is one of two ferries servicing for Hundested–Rørvig Færgefart A/S © Peter Therkildsen

Samsø Linien acquires Hundested-Rørvig Færgefart

jan 13 2021

FerrySamsø Linien has entered into an agreement to acquire Hundested-Rørvig Færgefart, which connects northern Zealand and Odsherred. The acquisition is seen...

GAARDEN © Holland Shipyards Group

Holland Shipyards Group awarded with contract to build three additionals vessels for Schlepp- und Fährgesellschaft Kiel

jan 12 2021

Press releaseAfter delivering a hybrid ferry, ‘Gaarden’, in July 2020 and a fully electric ferry, ‘Düsternbrook’, that will be entering operations short...

DFDS: December volume report: freight up 28% boosted by stockbuilding ahead of Brexit

jan 12 2021

DFDS reports monthly ferry volumes for freight and passengers to provide additional insight into the development of volume trends in DFDS’ European route network.

Carnival Corporation & plc provides preliminary financial information for the fourth quarter of 2020

jan 12 2021

FinanceCarnival Corporation & plc (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE: CUK) provides preliminary financial information for the fourth quarter ended November 30, 2020.<...

PEARL SEAWAYS has been taken out of service. © Marko Stampehl

DFDS suspends Copenhagen-Frederikshavn-Oslo route

jan 11 2021

FerryNew travel restrictions announced by the Danish government last Friday, 8 January, has led to the suspension of DFDS’s Copenhagen-Frederikshavn-Oslo rou...

JUST RELEASED - Shippax Guide 20 - STENA EDDA

jan 11 2021

Shippax Guide is our annual extensive ship register publication including all existing ro-pax ferries, ro-ro and cruise vessels. Theme vessel in this issue: STENA EDDA

BOHAI HENGDA and sister ship BOHAI HENGTONG serve the Longkou-Lushun route across the Bohai Strait. © CIMC Raffles

Brand-new BOHAI HENGDA introduced across the Bohai Strait

jan 08 2021

Ro-roThe CIMC Raffles shipyard in Longkou has handed over BOHAI HENGDA to Bohai Hengtong Ferry, a joint venture between Hengtong Logistics, Longkou Port and...

VENEZIA will make a weekly inter-island Cagliari-Palermo rotation, starting on 15 January. © Frank Lose

Grimaldi to start weekly Sardinia-Sicily inter-island service

jan 07 2021

FerryGrimaldi Lines is further increasing its presence in the Italian domestic ferry market and will start a weekly Cagliari, Sardinia-Palermo, Sicily ro-pax...

SCANDIA SEAWAYS is the last ship in the six-ship Jinling series designed by Knud E. Hansen and built by Nanjing Jinling. © Jinling Shipyard

Jinling delivers last DFDS mega ro-ro

jan 07 2021

Ro-roNanjing Jinling Yizheng’s shipyard delivered the last of the six-ship 6,695-lanemetre series, SCANDIA SEAWAYS, to DFDS on 6 January. The 237.4m long an...

The LNG-powered SALAMANCA is one of three Stena E-Flexers adapted for Brittany Ferries service. © CMI Jinling Weihai Shipyard

Sixth Stena E-Flexer floated

jan 06 2021

FerryOn 5 January, the sixth Stena E-Flexer, SALAMANCA, was floated in the Number One building dock of China Merchants’ Jinling Weihai Shipyard. Weather perm...

Jumbo Ferry's KONPIRA 2 and RITSURIN 2 (illustrated) were built in 1989 and 1990, respectively. It is expected that the newbuild will replace one of the existing ships. © Frank Lose

Jumbo Ferry orders at Naikai Zosen

jan 05 2021

FerryJapanese ferry line Jumbo Ferry has ordered a single ro-pax at Naikai Zosen for delivery in September 2022.

COLOR MAGIC has been taken out of service until further notice, leaving Color Line’s Oslo-Kiel route in the hands of the freight-only COLOR CARRIER. © Kai Ortel

Color Line lays up second Oslo-Kiel ro-pax cruise ferry

jan 05 2021

FerryThe new strict COVID-19 measures implemented in Norway has forced Color Line to further reduce its services by putting COLOR MAGIC in layup. Back in Nov...

OPTIMA SEAWAYS is one of three ro-paxes operating DFDS's new Dunkerque-Rosslare route. © Julien Carpentier

Successful start of DFDS’s new direct France-Ireland service

jan 04 2021

FerryDFDS’s new direct Dunkerque-Rosslare freight service, bypassing a Great Britain land bridge, successfully started on 2 January when the Visentini Class ...

Keel laying ceremony for FSG's yard number 782. © Frank Behling

FSG lays keel for IVP Ship Invest’s first ro-ro

jan 04 2021

Ro-roControlled by Lars Windhorst’s Tennor Holding, Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellscheft (FSG) on 30 December held the keel laying ceremony for the first ro-r...

STENA EMBLA seen alongside the Belfast Victoria Terminal 2 (VT2). © Stena Line

STENA EMBLA arrives in UK waters

jan 04 2021

FerryFollowing her delivery voyage from China, Stena Line’s third E-Flexer for Irish Sea service, STENA EMBLA, arrived for the first time in Belfast in the m...

As part of a post-Brexit contract secured by Brittany Ferries with the UK government’s Department for Transport (DfT), COTENTIN operates a daily Cherbourg-Poole service. © Brittany Ferries

Brittany Ferries re-introduces COTENTIN

jan 04 2021

Ferry Following an absence of more than seven years on the Western Channel, Brittany Ferries’ freight-oriented 2007-built ro-pax ferry COTENTIN is back on th...

Grimaldi Group took delivery of its second of 12 GG5G Class mega ro-ros. © Grimaldi Lines

Jinling hands over Grimaldi Group’s second GG5G Class hybrid ro-ro

jan 04 2021

Ro-roToday, 4 January, Nanjing Jinling Shipyard has delivered ECO BARCELONA, the second of nine 7,800-lanemetre GG5G Class mega short-sea ro-ros for Grimald...

Gert Jakobsen © Shippax

Quick Q&As – Gert Jakobsen

jan 01 2021

InterviewThis interview with Gert Jakobsen, Retiring VP of Communications at DFDS, was first published in the January/February 2021 issue of our monthly mag...

Mark Collins © BC Ferries

A YEAR OF CHALLENGE AND OPPORTUNITY AT BC FERRIES

jan 01 2021

InterviewWhen the COVID-19 pandemic became a global reality in the first half of 2020, things happened quickly. By mid-March, travel operators around the wo...

Rendering of SOLEIL and HAMAYU. © Tokyo Kyushu Ferry

Tokyo Kyushu Ferry’s second newbuild named SOLEIL

dec 23 2020

FerryThe second ferry of newly established Tokyo Kyushu Ferry – a subsidiary of SHK Line Group – was launched by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ (MHI) Nagasaki ...

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