Tag: ferries

Work continued last week on the development of the first standard contract in the market for Ro/Ro cargo/passenger ferries

Chair of SEStran (South East of Scotland Transport Partnership), Russell Imrie says that a bid to cut sulphur at sea may sink, The Scotsman reports

On 25th January 2014, Yard 503 constructed by ULJANIK Shipyard for the Croatian national shipping company was launched into the sea from slipway number one.

In addition to the S-Band SharpEye solid state, upmast radar, the Francisco is also equipped with an X-Band radar, a MantaDigital radar processor

Skangass will build a bunker station for LNG in Risavika, close to Stavanger in Norway. DSB (Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection ) has approved the plans for a bunker station dedicated for Fjord Line's cruise ferries. For the first time in Norway, ferries have the opportunity to bunker LNG while having passengers on board.

Catamaran is built at Incat's shipyards in Hobart, Tasmania, this is the world's fastest ship. With a cargo of over 1,000 passengers and 150 cars, the 99-meter catamaran can travel at speeds of up to 58 knots or 107 km per hour. Its new owner, Buquebus Ferries, has named it 'Francisco' in honour of Argentinean-born Pope Francis.

On 22 June 2013, the ferry Sirena Seaways made heavy contact with berth 3 at Harwich International Port. The impact caused considerable damage to the fore-end of the vessel, including penetrations below the waterline. The linkspan at berth 3 collapsed into the water; the supporting structures were severely damaged and were no longer useable. No one was injured and there was no pollution. Sirena Seaways was subsequently moved to another berth to disembark the passengers and vehicles.

Leading French ferry and holiday company, Brittany Ferries, today announced that an order has been placed for a new cruise-ferry that will be its largest yet, and one of the biggest such vessels in the world. It will also be the cleanest, most environmentally-friendly ship to operate in UK waters because LNG emits about 25 per cent less carbon dioxide during combustion than marine fuel oil and burns with no smoke. It is entirely free of sulphur and is very low in nitrogen oxide emissions.

Construction of the second of two new environmentally friendly cruise ferries that Fjord Line has ordered from Bergen Group Fosen has come so far that the ship could be tested out recently in the Trondheim Fjord.

Due to current world fuel market conditions that influence the prices that BC Ferries must pay its diesel fuel suppliers, the company is advising customers that a fuel surcharge will be implemented on the majority of its routes on January 17.