Pyxis, a Singapore-based maritime technology startup company, has unveiled a new port passenger launch powered entirely by electricity. Named X Tron, the aluminium catamaran vessel is the first in a planned batch of 13 electric harbour craft that Pyxis will deliver up to the end of 2026. The...
Best Small Ferry – Talwurrapin – Norman R. Wright and Sons One of the best known names in the Australian ferry business delivered this impressively practical small ferry in 2023. Norman R. Wright and Sons has been designing and building first-rate vessels for well over a century and joins the fleet...
The Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) of San Francisco, California has taken delivery of a new fast aluminium catamaran ferry for operation in the San Francisco Bay Area. Delphinus was built by La Conner, Washington-based Mavrik Marine to a design by One2Three Naval Architects of...
A new fire safety study by global survival technology company Survitec has revealed that existing firefighting methods used to extinguish machinery space spray and pool fires on conventionally-fuelled vessels are inadequate when dealing with methanol-based fires. This follows extensive comparative fire tests on dual-fuel marine engines using diesel oil and methanol, carried out amid growing […]
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Belgium and the European Union haved signed the United Nations Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships, otherwise known as the Beijing Convention on the Judicial Sale of Ships, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) confirmed via a recent...
Chinese shipbuilder Guangdong Zhongwei Composite Materials has floated out a new hybrid fast catamaran ferry ordered from the company by Hong Kong transport operator Sun Ferry. When completed, Xin Ming Xhu VI (“New Pearl VI”) will have an LOA of 44.75 metres, a beam of 11 metres, a depth of 3.65...
The world’s largest double-ended ferries, U.K.-based P&O Ferries’ 230-meter long M/V Pioneer and M/V Liberté, will be covered by a five-year lifecycle agreement with Wärtsilä. The agreement is designed to optimize the vessels’ operations, while providing maintenance cost predictability.
The M/V Pioneer commenced commercial operations in June 2023, while the M/V Liberté is scheduled to enter service in early 2024. The ferries sail between Dover, England and Calais, France.
Both vessels feature...
https://www.marinelog.com/passenger/ferries/wartsila-inks-lifecycle-agreement-for-new-po-ferries/
Recently delivered by Gulf Island Marine Fabricators of Houma, La., the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) unveiled its new hybrid-electric ferry in a dedication ceremony, honoring the esteemed pioneer of Texas transportation infrastructure, Esperanza “Hope” Andrade. The double-ended ferry was designed by Houston’s The Shearer Group.
This marks a significant milestone as it is the first Galveston ferry to be named after a woman and the first to be named after a Latina. Furthermore, this...
https://www.marinelog.com/passenger/ferries/gulf-island-delivers-new-ferry-to-texas-dot/
New Zealand-based power generation company Meridian Energy has unveiled its plans to operate an electric hydrofoil shuttle ferry as a daily transport vessel for its staff and contractors. The vessel will be a variant of the 12-metre hydrofoil ferry prototype originally developed by Candela Speed...
New Zealand’s Meridian Energy is to replace the diesel ferry which shuttles workers across Lake Manapōuri to its Manapōuri hydro station with a Candela P-12 electric hydrofoil ferry.
Lake Manapōuri has been voted New Zealand’s most beautiful lake and the new, Swedish-made, Candela P-12 will provide daily transport for the staff and contractors servicing the country’s largest hydro power station, Manapōuri Power Station.
According to Candela, the P-12 will save 240 tons of carbon emissions each...