Tag: RORO

While a coastal Ro-Ro passenger vessel was at berth, it was using a auxiliary boiler to provide onboard accommodation heating, while the engines were not operating. After the boiler began working, fire broke out near the boiler, caused by a leak. The engineers quickly shut the boiler down and put the fire out with a foam fire extinguisher.

Container throughput in the Port of Rotterdam increased by 4.6% by weight to 35.9 million tonnes and 6.1% by volume to 3.5 million TEUs. This increase continues from last year and is caused by increased throughput performance of the port’s large container terminals. However, there was less freight than in the same period last year.

The DFDS Ro-Ro cargo ship "Finlandia Seaways" suffered a fire in its engine room in April 16 in the English Channel, while heading to Rosyth UK, from Zeebrugge Belgium. One crewmember, who was in the engine room when the fire broke out, was injured and was transported to a hospital in the UK.

Finnlines, in the context of its Energy Efficiency and Emission Reduction Investment Programme, decided to lengthen four vessels in 2017, with an option of additional two. Finnlines now decided to exercise the option to lengthen two more vessels.

The Ro-Ro cargo ship Primula Seaways and the container ship MSC Madrid collided on March 3 in Vissingen, as both ships were heading in the same direction; MSC Madrid to Antwerp and Primula Seaways to Ghent. The Netherlands authority is currently conducting an investigation about the accident.

The MSC Group and Onorato Armatori inked a contract with Chinese shipyards Guangzhou Shipyard International and China Shipbuilding Trading, subsidiaries of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation, to build four luxury RORO cruise ferries. The signing ceremony took place at CSSC headquarters in Beijing.

Starting from April 1st 2018 the world’s first pool for dock vessels will be created. RollDock and SAL Heavy Lift will cooperate for Roll-On / Roll-Off and Float-In / Float-Out heavy lift cargoes. The pool will include six geared dock vessels, operated by RollDock. Five of the vessels comes from the existing RollDock fleet and one from SAL.

Talking at the Georgia Foreign Trade Conference Monday, Georgia Ports Authority Executive Director Griff Lynch presented a plan to double container handling capacity to 10 million TEUs at Garden City Terminal over the next 10 years. The new plan will enable the port to handle 10 million twenty-foot equivalent container units.

The vessels will be the largest fully electric Ro-Ro vessels in the Netherlands, and will operate fully on electricity, providing an emission-free urban transport solution. The new vessels will replace existing ferries that operate on three different routes west of Amsterdam.

The new class-post-Panamax RoRo vessel 'MOL Brooklands' became the first of its kind to call on the American Port Canaveral. With a 125-foot beam and capacity to transport over 7,400 vehicles, the ship is also the largest Post-Panamax vessel to call on the Port.