Brittany Ferries can look back on an encouraging summer season. However the company has also raised the alarm. Noting a fall in demand for family holidays next summer, it has warned of serious consequences for international tourism and the regions it serves if a Brexit deal does not bring certainty...
2018 Newsletter week 43
T. Mariotti And Nuovi Cantieri Apuania Shortlisted To Build A Second Ro-Pax For Rfi
Genoa-based T.Mariotti (together with the sister companies San Giorgio del Porto and Tecnavi) and Carrara-based Nuovi Cantieri Apuania are the two shipyards which submitted an offer to build a second ro-pax train ferry for RFI (Rete Ferroviaria Italiana). The ferry is to be deployed in the Strait...
PORTS
Rostock Will Have An LNG Terminal Port of Rostock announced the signing of a lease agreement with a Belgian-Russian joint venture, for a mid-scale LNG terminal. This milestone brings the LNG project in Rostock one step closer to the anticipated start in the next decade. The joint venture (Fluxys...
Electric Shuttle Bus For Port of Ystad
On October 11, the Polish bus manufacturer Solaris delivered an electric bus to the Port of Ystad. The bus is used for the carriage of ferry passengers between ships and terminals and is specially designed to provide greater capacity for both standing passengers and luggage. The equipment includes...
https://www.ferryshippingnews.com/electric-shuttle-bus-for-port-of-ystad/
Ports Of Stockholm Satisfied With Freight – Passenger Strategy
Ro-ro freight grew by a total of 5%. The largest increases were at ports located outside the heart of Stockholm itself, entirely in line with the strategy to concentrate passenger services to the city’s central ports and freighted goods to the ports peripheral to Stockholm’s city centre. At the...
https://www.ferryshippingnews.com/ports-of-stockholm-satisfied-with-freight-passenger-strategy/
Canada’s First Fully-Electric Ferries
Canada’s first fully-electric ferries are being built by Netherlands-based Damen Shipyards for the province of Ontario. The ferries will sail Canada’s Great Lakes and also be ice-class. Read more in NauticExpo e-magazine
https://www.ferryshippingnews.com/canadas-first-fully-electric-ferries/
Italian Company Bluferries Receives New Ferry TRINACRIA And Exercises Option For A Second Unit
Bluferries, the Italian shipping company controlled by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana and active on the two sides of the Strait of Messina, received this week the new ferry TRINACRIA (ex OKEANOS I). She has been acquired from Ocean Freedom Shipping Company and built in Greece by Perama-based...
Finnish Government’s Amended Budget Is Positive For The Kvarken Ferry Project
In 2016, the Finnish Government has committed itself to co-finance the Kvarken transport project (ferry link between the cities of Vaasa and Umeå). The Government has now amended the budget for 2018, and this includes EUR 10 million for the development and the continuity of the existing ferry...
Moby And Tirrenia Merger Approved By Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meetings
The announced merger of the two Italian ferry companies Moby and Tirrenia received the green light from the company’s shareholders. A statement published on the Luxembourg stock exchange’s website, the group controlled by Vincenzo Onorato says: “Extraordinary Shareholders’ meetings of Moby S.p.A....
New Ro-Pax For Tallink To Be Built In Rauma
AS Tallink Grupp and Finnish shipbuilding company Rauma Marine Constructions Oy have signed a letter of intent to build a ro-pax shuttle ferry for the Tallinn-Helsinki route. €250 million Planning to start spring 2019 Building to start 2020 Delivery end 2021 Passenger capacity 2,800 Dual-fuel,...
https://www.ferryshippingnews.com/new-ro-pax-for-tallink-to-be-built-in-rauma/