China-Japan International Ferry (CHINJIF), a Chinese- and Japanese-owned joint venture transport company, recently commended operational sailings of a new Ro-Pax ferry built by China Merchants Jinling Shipbuilding (Weihai). Named Jianzhen (鉴真号), the vessel was designed by Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute (SDARI). Hybrid setup delivering increased efficiency The newbuild has an LOA of […]
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Funing Heavy Industry, a subsidiary of China’s Fujian Shipbuilding, has delivered an electric inland ferry that will be operated in Guandun Village in the eastern portion of Shaowu City in Fujian Province. Shaoguandun 01 (邵官墩01) was designed by Fujian Shipbuilding R&D and Design Institute as a...
Hong Kong ferry operator Sun Ferry has taken delivery of the first vessel in a new series of six fast catamaran ferries built by China’s AFAI Southern Shipyard. Xin Ming Zhu VIII (新明珠8; “New Pearl 8”) is now in operation on the Central Ferry Pier to Mui Wo and Cheung Chau commuter routes in Hong […]
Russia’s Ushakov Shipyards has handed over a new passenger vessel to local shipowner Mashpromlizing for use as both a commuter ferry and a sightseeing boat. The ferry has been named Iniya after a genus of freshwater dolphin native to the Amazon region of Brazil. It was designed by United...
Chinese operator Fuzhou Liangjiang Sian Passenger Transport Company recently placed a new electric sightseeing vessel into service in Fujian province. Built by Fujian Shipbuilding subsidiary Funing Heavy Industry to a design by the Yangtze River Ship Design Institute, Mindu (闽都号) was developed to run purely on battery power in fulfilment of the owner’s requirement for […]
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Chinese company the Dalian Cultural Tourism Development Group recently took delivery of a new sightseeing vessel built by the Wuxi Dongfang Ship Research High Performance Boat Engineering Company. Named Laohutan (老虎滩; “Tiger Beach”), the vessel will operate mainly off the city of Dalian in Liaoning...
China’s the Wuhan Cultural Tourism Group has taken delivery of a new sightseeing vessel built by local shipbuilder the Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group. Guqin (古琴) will be operated along the Yangtze River, primarily in the portions of the river near the city of Wuhan. Construction was completed...