Smyril Line has signed a contract with the CIMC Raffles shipyard in China to build two new RoRo ships. The identical twins will be 190m long and have a 3,300 lane metre capacity. The new cargo ships will join Smyril Line’s current network, and they are planned to start sailing in 2026. The ships...
Smyril Line has purchased Ro-Ro SEAGARD (1999) from Bore Ltd. The vessel will be delivered to Smyril Line first week of January 2024 and will be renamed GLYVURSNES. She will replace time chartered vessel MISTRAL (Godby Shipping) and will go into regular service between Tórshavn, Faroe Islands,...
After a year operating the “salmon route”, Smyril Line Cargo is putting sailings on hold. It was roro vessel AKRANES that operated the route from Central Norway to the Netherlands since summer 2020. AKRANES will now be servicing a new route between Thorlakshøfn, in Iceland´s West coast, Tórshavn,...
A Ro-Pax ferry operated by Faroe Islands shipping company Smyril Line will boast increased passenger capacity and upgraded onboard facilities upon completion of an ..
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/
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/
MISTRAL will start a new traffic in August.” That is what we wrote in Ferry Shipping News, week 28. Now it has become clear that the Godby roro vessel will be used by Smyril Line, for a new freight route between Rotterdam and Western Norway. The route will initially be operated by the roro ferry...
https://ferryshippingnews.com/with-new-route-smyril-line-becomes-competitor-for-sea-cargo/