Getting access to our website

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 ...

Torghatten ASA has an annual revenue of approximately NOK 10 billion and counts about 7,000 employees. © Uwe Jakob

EQT Infrastructure to take full control of Torghatten

dec 23 2020

FinanceThrough HATI BidCo AS (the Offerer), EQT Infrastructure V fund (EQT Infrastructure) has launched an offer to acquire all outstanding shares in and To...

Kvarken Link has entered into an agreement to sell the Finnish-built WASA EXPRESS to United Marine Egypt (UME). © Uwe Jakob

UME snaps up WASA EXPRESS

dec 23 2020

FerryHaving just acquired Rederi AB Gotland’s 895-lanemetre and 88-passenger capacity GUTE, Red Sea ferry operator United Marine Egypt (UME) will further exp...

It is expected that COSTA FIRENZE will start cruising on 28 February 2021. © Fincantieri

Fincantieri hands over COSTA FIRENZE

dec 22 2020

CruiseFincantieri’s Marghera shipyard has today, 22 December, handed over the 135,500gt COSTA FIRENZE to Costa Cruises. Dedicated to the Florentine renaissan...

As it looks now, Interislander's newbuilds will be built in South Korea rather than in China as first expected. © OSK-ShipTech

KiwiRail signs LOI with HMD to build two new rail-enabled Interislander ro-paxes

dec 22 2020

FerryKiwiRail has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Ulsan-based Hyundai Mipo Dockyard to build the two rail-enabled ro-pax ferries that will replace Inter...

Adolfo Utor, President of Baleària. © Baleària

Adolfo Utor comments on the year for Baleària

dec 21 2020

FinanceAdolfo Utor, President of Baleària, Spain’s second largest ferry group has commented to a local newspaper, Diario de Ibiza, regarding the year in pro...

© PHO

Armas-Trasmediterránea nearing a financial solution?

dec 21 2020

FinanceThe Spanish digital newspaper El Confidencial has published details of the agreement reached by the bond holders and creditors of the Armas Trasmedit...

MARDI GRAS © Meyer Turku

Meyer Turku hands over MARDI GRAS

dec 18 2020

CruiseMARDI GRAS, Carnival Cruise Line’s LNG-powered flagship cruise ship, has been delivered by Meyer Turku.

LILLEØRE © Samsø Rederi

Samsø Rederi’s LILLEØRE delivered

dec 17 2020

High-speedChinese Afai Southern Shipyard has delivered the 35m high-speed catamaran LILLEØRE. As of April 2021, the vessel will operate for Samsø Rederi, c...

« Previous
153 of 310
Next »

Most read

Heavy lift vessel bound for Hobart to collect hull 096

jun 01 2026

ROMANTIKA © Karl Kõrgmaa

Tallink passenger vessel ROMANTIKA returns to Tallinn–Stockholm route for the summer season

jun 08 2026

FINNFELLOW

Finnlines' Sweden–Poland route celebrates 200,000 passenger milestone

jun 11 2026

World's first ship tunnel moves into construction phase

jun 11 2026

MERCEDES PINTO

Baleària Canarias unveils summer programme with 12-ship fleet to boost inter-island links

jun 02 2026

Wasaline's AURORA BOTNIA receives Stena Line livery update following acquisition

jun 12 2026

GNV deploys LNG-fuelled GNV AURORA and GNV VIRGO on Morocco routes

jun 04 2026

139-metre and 1,800 CEU capacity MALACCA HIGHWAY © Kai Ortel

K Line orders four 1,380 CEU capacity LNG-fuelled car carriers for European operations

jun 04 2026

Products

Shippax Info

Our monthly magazine + Online Access.1 year subscription.

Shippax Designs 25

STENA FUTURA

Shippax Market 25

Market reports & outlook

Shippax Guide 25

SAINT-MALO

Shippax Database - Single user

Shippax Database online

Ferry Statistics

Price upon request

Don’t miss out!

The place to meet the ferry shipping industry!