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...]
According to the ‘Times of Malta’, MSC Cruises is planning to buy a 50% stake in Malta Palumbo Shipyard. The plans were announced in a notification by the Maltese Office for Competition in terms of the Control of Concentrations Regulations law. Palumbo took over the [Read more...]
High levels of occupancy during the first two months of 2020 and strong forward bookings are sustaining momentum for Gibdock, following a strong surge in demand for the Gibraltar repair yard in the last quarter of 2019. Recent contracts included a number of ‘environmental’ retrofits, [Read more...]
A 200 m cruise ship experienced a failure in the feedback system of its bow thruster recently. As a result, afloat repair specialist Hydrex mobilised a team to Phuket, Thailand to perform underwater repairs by using the company’s mobdocks. These lightweight flexible mobdocks are easy [Read more...]
Interior outfitting company, Trimline celebrated its 55th birthday on 17th February. When founder Reg Oliver (pictured in the middle) was made redundant in 1965, he was given a sewing machine by his ex-employer. He saw this as an opportunity to build a better future for [Read more...]