In its 2019 Q4 and December statistics, Tallink Grupp sees the following trends: +0.1% passengers = a record number of 9,763,210 passengers. The biggest increase in the number of passengers was on the Finland-Sweden routes (+1.7% or 2,894,494 pax) Estonia – Sweden passengers went down 7.9% The...
https://www.ferryshippingnews.com/tallink-grupp-2019-record-number-of-passengers/
The Italian Antitrust authority announced this week the decision to postpone the recalculation of the fine to Moby for the abuse of dominant position on the maritime links between the country’s mainland and Sardinia region. In March 2018 the authority fined Moby and Compagnia Italiana di...
Ferry services to and from Karlshamn are secured for the future. At least for the next ten years. That is the meaning of a new agreement with DFDS. Source: Sydöstran (in Swedish)…
https://www.ferryshippingnews.com/dfds-has-made-a-10-year-agreement-for-karlshamn/
The Municipality of Fanø and the owners of the Fanølinjen – Molslinjen –, have agreed to phase out the ferry SØNDERHO [link: Marinetraffic] and to start the construction of a brand new electric ferry. The 20-minute trip between Fanø and Esbjerg is very popular, with often long queues in weekends...
https://www.ferryshippingnews.com/molslinjen-orders-an-electric-ferry-for-fano-esbjerg/
SIEM RoRo, a UK-based company, part of the SIEM Group, has just chartered out the newly built roro LEEVSTEN (4,100 lane meters capacity) to the Tunisian carrier CTN. The vessel is the seventh sister ship part of a series of units built at the German shipyard Flensburger-Schiffbau-Gesellschaft. Last...
https://www.ferryshippingnews.com/siem-charters-out-new-roro-leevsten-to-ctn/
TT-Line will expand the route between their Swedish hub in Trelleborg and Klaipeda (Lithuania), with up to five departures a week. The ships will berth at a new, modern ferry terminal in Klaipeda, to be used exclusively by TT-Line. The freight will no longer have to pass the Klaipeda city centre,...
https://www.ferryshippingnews.com/tt-line-increases-the-frequency-to-the-baltic-states/
Economy Secretary Derek Mackay has given an update to Parliament on the Ferguson Marine shipyard which has now been taken into public ownership. Two ships are ‘under construction’ for domestic Scottish CMAL routes. The additional cost to complete the two ferries is now estimated to be between £94.8...
https://www.ferryshippingnews.com/scottish-vessel-delivery-plan-published/
After trading for five years on various routes in the P&O network, Godby Shipping’s roro ferry MISTRAL [external link: Godby Shipping] was redelivered and subsequently long-term chartered to Balearia. She will be employed on the Huelva-Tenerife-Las Palmas service for Canary Bridge Seaways, a joint...
https://www.ferryshippingnews.com/long-term-charter-for-mistral/
After a six-month period, FRS has decided not to extent the charter of the A-SHIPS Management’s GOLDEN BRIDGE. The ship will soon return back to Greece. She will be temporarily replaced by Transmediterranean’s VRONSKIY on the Motril – Melilla line. The Japanese-build vessel was chartered to FRS...
https://www.ferryshippingnews.com/a-ships-managements-golden-bridge-charter-to-frs-expired/
On 30 December 2019, Destination Gotland signed the papers to become the owner of the second LNG-ferry built at the Chinese GSI yard. She’s the sister of VISBORG.
https://www.ferryshippingnews.com/destination-gotland-takes-delivery-of-thjelvar/