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Dare to dream onboard. www.dampa.com | dampa@dampa.dk DK-5690 Tommerup | +45 6376 1300 Scan to discover our many design possibilitiesJUNE 25 · SHIPPAXINFO 1 www.shippax.com alternative fuel adoption are among some of the most noticeable changes that potentially may have huge impacts on safety. Another revision of SOLAS is needed. The leadership of the ferry industry in this en- deavour is called for. As with emission con- trols and future fuels, through partnerships with emergency services, safety equipment suppliers, port operators, and other relevant authorities, the sector is quickly becoming a testbed in this field and a pioneer in setting a new maritime safety standard, thus help- ing to create a new benchmark for maritime safety. There is an urgency here: the maritime domain is expanding rapidly and is exposed to ever-greater safety risks from one day to the next. We simply cannot wait for another 50 years to take the next major preventative step. The editorial team It is said that, at any one time, more than 30 million people are either working at sea or travelling upon it. They include ferry passengers, offshore workers, seafarers, and many others. The number of seafarers alone stands at about 1.6 million. There is an entire human society out there, at sea — a sea that can be both treacherous and unforgiving. Throughout maritime history, efforts have been made to mitigate the ever-present risks to precious human life. Progress has been made, for example, in the form of the IMO’s milestone International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS), which bench- marks maritime safety. But its adoption was painfully slow. Although the initial document had been drafted in 1914, prompted by the sinking of the TITANIC, it did not become ful- ly effective until 1965, more than half a cen- tury later. The current version can be traced back to 1974. 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You can terminate your subscription at any time but if you have received the first issue of SHIPPAX INFO in your payment period or if the first issue is on its way to your address, your cancellation will take effect after you have received all issues in the payment period.2 SHIPPAXINFO · JUNE 25 www.shippax.com Editorial Benchmarking safety 1 Inside story Training emergency protocols: Joint exercises of ferry operators and emergency services 4 Economies of scale of enlarged Shaper class PCTCs help green drive of Wallenius Wilhelmsen 12 2024: A Pivotal Year for Maritime Cyber Attacks 16 Midships News 21 Statistics 54 Projects and conversions 58 Fleet changes 60 On order: High-Speed 61 Profile Ferry Operations and Political Tides in New Caledonia 64 Just delivered HINNØY 68 Quick Q&As Angelica Andreasson - Stena Line Maritime Academy 76 CONTENTS COVER PHOTO SAMFERDSELSFOTO AND TOR ARNE AASEN 4 76 12 6468 16HOGIA FERRY SYSTEMS hogiaferrysytems.com Mark C. Wilson President and Chief Executive Officer Bay Ferries Limited (BFL) and Northumberland Ferries Limited Hogia’s focus on long-term relationships is evident in our 20+ years of partnership. We trust them to continue providing BOOKIT as a strong reservation system, meeting our needs now and in the future.4 SHIPPAXINFO · JUNE 25 www.shippax.com TRAINING EMERGENCY PROTOCOLS: JOINT EXERCISES OF FERRY OPERATORS AND EMERGENCY SERVICES In the April issue of SHIPPAX INFO, we presented a seminar series initiated by two German domestic ferry operators together the North Frisia District Fire Brigade Association (Kreisfeuerwehrverband Nordfriesland) in order to develop protocols for emergency scenarios involving electric vehicles. On 9 November 2025, these protocols were tested during a joint exercise involving Wyker Dampfschiff-Reederei's ferry M/V NORDERAUE along with shore-based emergency services and two rescue coordination centers. A review of this large-scale exercise – and its preparation – may serve as inspiration for other opera tors particularly in the short-range ferry sector. TEXT: FREDERIK ERDMANN PHOTO: KREISFEUERWEHRVERBAND NF NORDERAUE at Wyk auf Föhr shortly after her arrival during the FAEHRE24 exercise with the local fire brigade ready to go into action. YourPathfinder.6 SHIPPAXINFO · JUNE 25 www.shippax.com NORDERAUE was roughly half-way en-route from Dagebüll to Wyk on Föhr Island. During the further course of events, a female 'passenger' would twist her foot, requiring medical as- sistance. While this scenario does not sound very demanding at first glance, it contained a number of challenges both for the ship's crew and the involved emergency forces: Apart from the activation of the emergency protocol for electric car fires and the implementation of respective measures, the bridge would have to communicate with the local rescue coordination centre in order to receive support from the fire services on Föhr Island. Upon arrival in port, the Master (or Chief Officer) and the fire brigade chief of operation would have to establish contact to coordinate further measures. Subsequently, cooperation would be required both to get the involved car ashore, and to evacuate the 'passengers'. Apart from the main focus on the testing of the new emergency protocol for electric car fires, a second focus was set on guidance and care provided to passengers, while the third and ultimate focus was set on communication between the different forces involved. In order to challenge the communica- tion chain, a female 'passenger actor' was recruited to make an emergency call to the Regional Emergency Coordination Centre using her mobile phone and the German 112 emergency number, reporting she had some undeclared fireworks in the boot of her car. Overall, approximately 50 'passenger actors' were recruited, including maritime students from the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences and the neighbouring Flensburg Nautical College as well as numerous volunteer firefights and volunteer Already as the "Safe ferry transport of electric vehicles" seminar series for nautical and technical ferry officers as well as senior fire service ranks was conceived in the beginning of 2023, the initiators aimed to close the series with a large-scale emergency exercise in order to test the efficiency of the emergency protocols to be developed during the two first seminar parts in April and November 2023. A core objective of this exercise would be to train – and test – the cooperation between the crew of a ferry and shore-based emergency services, i.e. local fire brigades and the lo- cal rescue service along with the respective Regional Emergency Coordination Centre. While exercises between infrastructure / transportation operators and emergency services are common in other transportation sectors such as aviation and rail, large-scale exercises are still relatively rare in the ferry industry, although a number of operators – including for example Stena Line, Scan- dlines and GNV – have conducted respective training together with emergency organisations, both civilian and military, in recent years. Also, Wyker Dampfschiffs-Reederei Föhr-Amrum GmbH (W.D.R.), one of Germany's leading ferry operators, has been active to this regard, among others with a major exercise conducted in Dagebüll in February 2019 to train protocols for dangerous goods spillage. Opportunities to train what cannot be trained during normal operations A great asset of a large-scale exercise is to train aspects that cannot be trained during the usual, weekly drills held onboard a ferry. For example, passengers are typically not present during a routine drill. As drills onboard ferries usually take place in port and not at sea, the atmosphere onboard is generally much calmer then it would be during a real emergency at sea. Additionally, standard drills usually take place within the crew only, leaving the important communication interface between ship and shore excluded. Some flags – for example Cyprus – require operators to hold a ship/shore drill in regular intervals (in case of Cyprus once in every twelve months), however, such drills are usually limited to a vessel and the corresponding operator's shoreside organisation – again without third-party organisations being involved. The objective of FAEHRE24 – as the exercise got code- named – was thus not to run through a particularly 'spectacular' emergency scenario, but to set a focus on aspects that cannot be trained during routine drills. Just as the two previous parts of the seminar series, also the concluding exercise was jointly developed and organised by Jürgen Jensen (former fire chief of Husum, a 24,000 inhabitants port city in North Frisia, as well as instructor for firefighting onboard ships at Kreisfeuerwehrver- band Nordfriesland) and Frederik Erdmann, the Founder & Owner of Frederik Erdmann Maritime Consulting who is also an active voluntary firefighter educated as "Gruppenführer" (unity leader). Wyker Dampfschiffs-Reederei provided their flagship M/V NORDERAUE, a 2018-built 3,318gt double-end ferry car- rying up to 1,200 passengers and 75 cars, for the exercise. About a year in advance, Saturday 9 November 2024 was chosen as the date of the exercise, actually the first weekend after the end of the autumn travel period. As the date had been set, the organisers had little less than a year time to prepare the exercise. This was done during a number of meetings, both physical and digital ones. The scenario: Smoke development in an electric car, around 50 passengers onboard The scenario chosen for FAEHRE24 was relatively simple: On a normal off-season crossing with a partially occupied vehicle deck and approximately 50 passengers onboard, a smoke develop- ment coming from an electric car would be noticed while the Example of a Role Card provided to a 'passenger actor'. PHOTO: FREDERIK ERDMANNYou have the passengers. We are leading the market in responsible gaming . Together we make a perfect pair. www.pafatsea.com Paf, AX-22101 Lövdalsvägen 8 Mariehamn Åland Finland +358 207 9106 00 | pafatsea@paf.comNext >