Damen Shiprepair Harlingen (DSH) recently completed repairs to Rederij Doeksen’s passenger/car ferry ‘Vlieland’. The vessel operates across the Wadden Sea, between Harlingen in the north of the Netherlands and the island of Vlieland. ‘Vlieland’ needed repairs following a recent incident that took place as she [Read more...]
Scottish West cost ferry operator CalMac is undertaking some significant fleet improvements during this year’s drydocking maintenance programme. Every year, each of the company’s 34 vessels, ranging in size from the 8,600 gt ‘Loch Seaforth’, to the 11 tonne ‘Carvoria’, all have to undergo a [Read more...]
Genova Industrie Navali (GIN), the holding company of T Mariotti and San Giorgio del Porto shipyards, has reported a strong 2019. The year saw €211 mill in production as the group introduced a new consolidated operation under the GIN brand with a new logo. GIN [Read more...]
Three Viking Cruises cruise ships are undergoing refits at Belfast’s iconic Harland & Wolff shipyard, according to social media feeds. The ’Viking Sky’, ‘Viking Sun’ and ’Viking Sea’ arrived last month from warm layup in Norway. Stena Line has also booked $3.1 mill worth of refurbishment work at Belfast [Read more...]
In just under three months, Stena RoRo has converted the former ’Stena Superfast X’ day ropax into a night ferry. The conversion was carried out in Piraeus, Greece. Under the name ’A Nepita’ she is to operate on the Marseille /Corsica/North Africa route for French shipping company, Corsica Linea. [Read more...]
Spanish ferry company Balearia has reported that it will take re-delivery of the ropax ‘Sicilia’ by the end of July. She is currently at the Portuguese shipyard West Sea undergoing conversion to use LNG as a fuel. Balaria said at the end of last month, [Read more...]
Fred.Olsen has moved all four of its cruise ships from Aberlady Bay anchorage in the UK’s River Forth to Babcock’s Rosyth repair facility. Managing Director Peter Deer explained that with the vessels now being alongside together, this will allow Fred.Olsen to run a more efficient [Read more...]
Backed by its new owner, InfraStrata, Harland & Wolff (H&W) is to offer its expertise to five distinct businesses, one of which is the cruise and ferry sector. The Belfast-based company has two of the largest drydocks in Europe and one of only two docks [Read more...]
Tallink Grupp has taken advantage of the suspension of the Stockholm/Helsinki route to drydock the ‘Silja Serenade’. Having been laid up in Helsinki, she is now in Naantali, Turku Repair Yard for essential maintenance and class renewal work. The drydocking was originally scheduled to take [Read more...]
During an 11-day refit of TUI’s ‘Mein Schiff 4’ in Marseille, interior outfitter Trimline was responsible for the transformation of two restaurants, a bar and a lounge. Working closely with designers CM Design and Aisslinger, Trimline’s team realised the client’s vision with very little modifications [Read more...]