Thordon Bearings is to retrofit its grease-free ThorPlas-Blue bearings to ForSea Ferries’ ‘Tycho Brahe’, during her next scheduled drydocking. This contract follows the success of the bearing installation to the bow doors of ‘Aurora’, the first of two battery-operated ferries converted by Sweden’s Oresund Drydocks [Read more...]
The lifting of the US ‘No-Sail Order’ puts cruise shipbuilding back on track and activities at resin applications specialist Bolidt have quickly ramped up in response, the company revealed. In what represents a significant step forward for the cruise industry, the US Centres for Disease [Read more...]
PALFINGER has completed its first major refurbishment jobs since the outbreak of the COVID-19-pandemic. Royal Caribbean Group awarded the company a contract to service 18 lifeboats and 20 winches for ‘Allure of the Seas’, the first cruise ship to drydock after the lock down in [Read more...]
West coast Scotland ferry operator, CalMac Ferries has awarded MJR Power and Automation a three-year framework contract to provide electrical installations services across the fleet. The company was appointed - alongside three other companies – to deliver services to support CalMac Ferries during a series [Read more...]
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...]