Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom is preparing a financial aid package of EUR 24.8 million to help ferry companies that are in trouble because of the pandemic. The aid can go to multiple companies. The operation has to be loss-making and the route has to be vital for Finland.
https://ferryshippingnews.com/finnish-support-package-for-shipping-companies-is-being-prepared/
“We are now preparing for the fact that it may take a long time before we return to normal operations,” says Rickard Ternblom, CEO of Fjord Line. The effect of the measures that were taken before the summer with cash support, refinancing, internal restructuring and equity, is estimated at NOK 700...
https://ferryshippingnews.com/fjord-line-is-preparing-for-long-time-effects-of-corona/
MSC has finally taken a 49% stake in the Ignazio Messina & C. shipping group. An official statement from Banca Carige and the NPL management company Amco informed that Gianluigi Aponte’s Italian holding company Marinvest and Messina Group have formally signed all the requested conditions which...
https://ferryshippingnews.com/grimaldi-adds-second-ropax-on-livorno-palermo-2/
From now on, Smyril Line’s roro AKRANES will arrive every Sunday in Vlaardingen, coming from Norway. DFDS will handle the discharging and loading of trailers, containers and machinery. Then the ship will sail back to Stavanger, Trondheim, Rørvik and Hitra. To support the DFDS network, the departure...
https://ferryshippingnews.com/new-cooperation-between-dfds-and-smyril-line/
The pandemic-related financial problems of shipping companies may lead to the sale of ferries and the permanent deterioration of Finland’s maritime connections. Viking Line’s CEO Jan Hanses talks about overcapacity in the Baltic and Viking Line’s attempt to sell ferries (with interest from the...
https://ferryshippingnews.com/viking-lines-ceo-all-ships-are-for-sale-if-the-price-is-right/
Since 15 September, Grimaldi Group has a daily departure on Livorno-Palermo, in both directions. A second ferry has been added. The additional ship deployed on the route is ropax CRUISE SMERALDA (2,000 lane meters, 1,500 pax, 100 cars). She joins ZEUS PALACE (2,000 lane meters, 1,700 pax, 100 cars).
https://ferryshippingnews.com/grimaldi-adds-second-ropax-on-livorno-palermo/
A Greek traditional shipowner seems to be the buyer of the Croatian Adriatic Lines’ HSC ADRIATIC JET. The vessel has already been renamed SPEED CAT 1. The ship that will soon join the Hellenic coastal shipping was serving the Venice-Rovinj-Pula-Porec line. Shipowner: Alpha Lines Shipping Co – 4,...
https://ferryshippingnews.com/adriatic-lines-hsc-adriatic-jet-sold-to-greek-interests/
P&O FERRYMASTERS is launching an advanced track and trace service for its container customers, making it the first major logistics business in Europe to introduce the technology. The service will allow customers to receive real-time updates on the precise location of their goods as they are...
P&O Ferries will reintroduce a fourth ship on Dover-Calais, to satisfy returning freight demand. It will be PRIDE OF CANTERBURY, currently laid up near Edinburgh, together with PRIDE OF BURGUNDY. PRIDE OF CANTERBURY will enter service on Saturday 3 October in freight-only mode.
https://ferryshippingnews.com/po-ferries-calais-dover-from-3-to-4-ships/
(geen foto beschikbaar) Earlier this week, JSW Steel presented a new investment plan for the steel plant based in the port of Piombino, where a new shipyard is also expected to be realized. Fincantieri and JSW signed an agreement aimed at exploring the possibility to create a shipbuilding site for...