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MARINER OF THE SEAS © Shippax

MARINER OF THE SEAS to receive a massive USD 100m makeover

okt 31 2017

CruiseThe 2003-built MARINER OF THE SEAS, the fifth and last Voyager-Class ship built in Finland for Royal Caribbean International (RCI), will receive a sign...

IONIS has replaced the iconic VITSENTZOS KORNAROS © George Giannakis

IONIS introduced on the lifeline services to Kythira and Antikythira

okt 30 2017

FerryAs Shippax earlier reported, the Greek government has cancelled Lane Sea Lines’ contract for the heavily-subsidised twice weekly route from Piraeus via ...

MOBY KISS and MOBY NIKI will boost capacity to and from Corsica © Frank Lose

Moby will boost links to Corsica from Nice, Genoa and Livorno in 2018

okt 30 2017

FerryIn 2018 Moby will boost links to and from Corsica, thanks to a further increase in the services offered from Nice, Genoa and Livorno.

Stern view of DHARMA KENCANA II © Jürgen Saupe

Fire-stricken Indonesian ferry DHARMA KENCANA II abandoned

okt 29 2017

FerryEn route from Samarang to Pontianak, the 4,144 gt Indonesian ro-pax ferry DHARMA KENCANA II of PT. Dharma Lautan Utama caught fire in the middle of the ...

© Port of Marseille

MSC ORCHESTRA: first cruise ship to be drydocked in Marseille’s large Drydock 10

okt 27 2017

CruiseEarlier this week, the 293.8m MSC ORCHESTRA of MSC Cruises was drydocked in Marseille’s fully-restored Forme 10 – or Drydock 10 – operated by Chantier ...

SILVER CLOUD no longer has a white hull following her major conversion into an expedition cruise ship © Palumbo Malta Shipyard

Palumbo Malta Shipyard completes SILVER CLOUD’s conversion

okt 27 2017

CruiseValletta-based Palumbo Malta Shipyard (PMS) has completed the complex conversion of Silversea’s pioneering, 1994-built SILVER CLOUD from a standard lux...

SUPERFAST XII will change hands for EUR 74.5m © George Giannakis

Minoan Lines and Attica Holdings agree on a solution for Hellenic Seaways

okt 26 2017

FerryIn a statement to the Athens Stock Exchange, Minoan Lines today (26 October) announced that a framework agreement has been signed with Attica Holdings t...

© Frank Behling

WORLD DREAM handed over to Dream Cruises

okt 26 2017

CruiseToday, 26 October, Meyer Werft handed over WORLD DREAM to her owners, the Asian shipping company Dream Cruises, a subsidiary of Genting Hong Kong.

© Kai Ortel

MSC Cruises sends MSC LIRICA back to the Med

okt 25 2017

CruiseAs from 6 April 2018, MSC LIRICA will be homeported in Venice (also boarding passengers in Bari) to serve Eastern Mediterranean routes.

ICHNUSA carried 29% more passengers across the Strait of Bonifacio © Frank Lose

Blu Navy sees surge in passenger numbers and will add a second ship on Elba line

okt 25 2017

FerryTuscany-based company Blu Navy has handled over 584,000 passengers in 2017. 460,000 passengers (+5%) were recorded on 1,833 trips to the Elba Island, i....

NISSOS RODOS has been chartered by Caronte & Tourist © George Giannakis

Caronte & Tourist has introduced the chartered NISSOS RODOS

okt 25 2017

FerryNISSOS RODOS, a 29,733 gt ro-pax ferry of Hellenic Seaways, has reached the Southern Tyrrhenian for a fairly short charter to Caronte & Tourist. The...

© Shippax archive

Sunken SEA DIAMOND to be raised

okt 25 2017

CruiseIn the wake of its handling of an oil spill after a small bunker tanker sank off Athens beaches, the Greek government has ordered the raising of the su...

© Trasmediterranea

Deal of the year: Naviera Armas to take over Trasmediterranea

okt 25 2017

FerryFamily-controlled Naviera Armas will take over Trasmediterranea, Spain’s premier ferry operator in which it already held a minority stake following the ...

TYCHO BRAHE © Uwe Jakob

TYCHO BRAHE now ready to operate on battery power

okt 25 2017

FerryThe battery-converted ferry TYCHO BRAHE was initially planned to operate on battery power by the end of June this year. However, due to technical proble...

The 1999-built high-speed monohull operated the Visby-Västervik route last summer © Uwe Jakob

Destination Gotland to continue the Västervik route for the summer 2018

okt 24 2017

FerryDestination Gotland has announced that they are going to continue to service the route to Visby, Gotland from Västervik also for the summer 2018. The fe...

© Bay Ferries

Growth for The Cat’s second year despite engine failures

okt 24 2017

High-speedFollowing the bankruptcy of Nova Star Cruises, Bay Ferries Ltd was awarded the contract for the Portland, Maine to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia ferry se...

AIDAvita closed the cruise season in Kiel on Saturday 21 October © Frank Behling

Best ever cruise season for Port of Kiel

okt 23 2017

PortThe Port of Kiel’s 2018 cruise season was closed by AIDAvita as the German port reached a record number of passengers.

© Port of Helsinki

Record number of cruise passengers for Helsinki port

okt 23 2017

PortWith a total of 478,000 cruise ship passengers, the Finnish capital reached a new record high in 2017. This represents an increase of 17% over 2016 an...

© Stena Line

Cold ironing for Stena Line in Port of Trelleborg

okt 23 2017

TechStena Line will be connecting the Rostock-Trelleborg ro-pax ferries SKÅNE and MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN to the electricity grid during their calls in the ...

MAESTRO SUN © Shippax

Inter Shipping replaces STENA CARRIER by MAESTRO SUN

okt 23 2017

Ro-roInter Shipping has replaced the 2,715-lanemetre STENA CARRIER (chartered from Stena RoRo since September 2016) by Maestro Shipping’s 2,171-lanemetre MA...

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