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Hyundai Mipo Dockyard secures another major ro-pax contract

sep 19 2018

FerryHot on the heels of the delivery of the 31,000gt NEW GOLDEN BRIDGE VII to Weidong Ferry, Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) announced that it has landed a new ...

FINNCARRIER © Finnlines

Color Line will obtain NOK 33.8 million to move goods from road to sea

sep 19 2018

Ro-roThe Norwegian Coastal Administration will grant a total of NOK 70.4 million to three actors that will move some 1.8 million tonnes from road to sea. Co...

GOMA is one of four small double-enders likely to be replaced in 2020 © Uwe Jakob

Møre og Romsdal puts four more ferry routes out to tender

sep 18 2018

FerryThe Møre og Romsdal county in Norway has put the following route package out to tender: Festøya-Hundeidvika, Stranda-Liabygda, Eidsdal-Linge and Leknes-...

CEMIL BAYÜLGEN will be renamed EPHESUS SEAWAYS in conjunction with her lengthening and scrubber installation © Marc Ottini

Rebranded U.N. Ro-Ro to introduce ‘Seaways’ names

sep 17 2018

Ro-roU.N. Ro-Ro will be rebranded DFDS, a process that will take several years. The first ship to display the name and the livery of the new owners is the l...

NOVA STAR has entered service at last © Frank Lose

Polferries’ new NOVA STAR finally enters service

sep 17 2018

FerryFollowing months of delays and uncertainty, Polferries’ chartered ro-pax NOVA STAR entered service on the Gdansk-Nynäshamn route on 14 September. Origin...

Record summer for Wasaline

sep 17 2018

FerryThe summer (June-August) was very strong for Wasaline, the single ship Vaasa-Umeå operator, with record carryings on both the passenger and passenger ve...

STENA VINGA looking resplendent in her new livery © Stena Line

STENA VINGA introduced on the Gothenburg-Frederikshavn service

sep 17 2018

FerryAfter a two-week refit at Oresund DryDocks, Landskrona, the former BornholmerFaergen’s HAMMERODDE was introduced as STENA VINGA between Gothenburg and F...

CLIPPER PENNANT will return to her 'country of birth' for a charter to newly-formed Canary Bridge Seaways © Seatruck

Canary Bridge Seaways to charter Seatruck’s CLIPPER PENNANT

sep 17 2018

Ro-roAlistair Eagles, CEO of UK-based Seatruck Ferries has confirmed to Shippax that the company’s 2009-built, 1,830-lanemetre ro-ro CLIPPER PENNANT has bee...

SOMERSET, built in 2000 as SPAARNEBORG, will be withdrawn from CLdN's Zeebrugge-Gothenburg service © Philippe Holthof

Stena charters SOMERSET

sep 17 2018

Ro-roStena Line has long-term chartered CLdN’s 2,475 lanemetre SOMERSET and will initially place her on the Europoort (Rotterdam)-Harwich route, joining the...

Nichols Brothers launched the NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC VENTURE

sep 17 2018

CruiseNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC VENTURE, the sister ship of the 2017-built NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC QUEST, has been launched from Nichols Brothers Boat Builders in Free...

A preliminary sketch produced by NAOS of how Corsica Ferries' new ships might look © NAOS Ship and Boat Design

NAOS reveals concept design of Corsica Ferries’ new Bastia-max ro-paxes

sep 12 2018

FerryIn May Corsica Sardinia Ferries announced that an ambitious newbuilding programme was in the making. The first artist’s impressions have now been releas...

Like her sister ship STENA CARRIER, STENA FREIGHTER will move to the other side of the Atlantic later this year © Marc Ottini

STENA FREIGHTER bought by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin

sep 12 2018

Ro-roBlue Origin, the Jeff Bezos-controlled aerospace manufacturer and spaceflights services company, appears to be the ‘surprise’ buyer of STENA FREIGHTER,...

Red ink for Moby Group

sep 12 2018

FinanceMoby Group has released its 2018 1H financial results. Highlights below.

MOBY AKI is one of the ro-paxes that also serves Olbia from Piombino © Marc Ottini

Moby keeps Piombino on its freight map

sep 12 2018

FerryContrary to what was earlier announced by market sources and partly confirmed by shipowner Onorato, Moby will continue to accept freight on the Piombino...

COPERNICUS joined near sister GALILEUSZ on the Swinoujscie-Trelleborg route © Frank Lose

COPERNICUS in operation on the Swinoujscie-Trelleborg connection

sep 12 2018

FerryFollowing several months of conversion to adapt the 1995-built ro-pax for the Swinoujscie-Trelleborg route with the installation of 25 new passenger and...

SUQUAMISH is WSF's latest addition © WSF

Washington State Ferries unveils long-term strategy

sep 11 2018

FerryWashington State Ferries (WSF) has unveiled a draft of its strategy for the next 20 years. This draft is subject to discussion with locals and ferry sys...

Seatruck now offers 22 return sailings per week between Liverpool and Dublin © Seatruck Ferries

Seatruck Ferries further increases capacity on Liverpool-Dublin route

sep 11 2018

Ro-roWith SEATRUCK PRECISION and sister SEATRUCK PERFORMANCE having re-joined the Seatruck Ferries fleet adding 660 trailer slots per week on the Heysham-Wa...

UN TRIESTE is one of twelve ships in the DFDS/U.N. Ro-Ro fleet to be equipped with scrubbers during 2019 © Marc Ottini

U.N. Ro-Ro fleet to be equipped with scrubbers

sep 11 2018

TechIn the run up to the implementation of the 0.5% global sulphur cap, DFDS has decided to equip all twelve ships operated under the U.N. Ro-Ro banner wit...

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Keel laid for the first Global Class cruise ship

sep 11 2018

CruiseToday, 11 September, the keel was laid at MV Werften for the first Global Class. The cruise ship will sail under Genting Hong Kong’s Dream Cruises bann...

The 94m version is a variant of the 109m type Austal is building for Molslinjen and Fjord Line © Austal

Green light from Trinidad and Tobago Government to order fast ro-pax cat at Austal

sep 11 2018

FerryKeith Rowley, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, has announced to go ahead with the order of a 94m ro-pax high-speed ferry to be built by Austal.

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