The new ro-ro ship Tennor Ocean, newbuild under construction at German shipyard Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG), set off on a test voyage from Flensburg heading for Bremerhaven in late January 2023. The ferry was moved to Dock 3 at Lloyd Werft.…
A new investigation into the sinking of ferry Estonia that claimed 852 lives in 1994 revealed flaws in its bow visor construction missed during its certification. If the necessary examination had been carried out, the Estonia-registered ship would not be…
SHIPS MONTHLY February 2023 The February 2023 issue of Ships Monthly is out now, and is packed with all the usual news and outstanding articles and features. NEWS Waterfront – Shieldhall ready for the 2023 season, new ferry MyStar debuts…
A public appeal was launched on 19 January 2023 to urgently raise funds to enable the historic Paddle Steamer Waverley to afford dry dock fees and recommissioning costs, and therefore sail in 2023. In 2022 Waverley operated in several areas…
Incat Tasmania is currently in discussions to deliver the world’s first large, lightweight, zero emissions ferry. Among vessels under construction at the shipyard is a 130m lightweight ferry, originally intended to be powered by LNG, that will carry 2100 passengers…
The popular ferry Viking Grace, which has already carried more than ten million passengers, celebrated ten years of service on 13 January 2023. Grace, built at the Perno shipyard in Turku, was one of the world’s first passenger ships to…
Singaporean shipbuilder Sembcorp Marine delivered the last of three fully battery-operated roll-on/roll-off passenger ferries for Norwegian ferry operator Norled in early January 2023. The vessel, Leikanger, is the third and final Ropax unit built for Norled by Sembcorp Marine, and…
The all-new ferry Stena Ebba was in the spotlight during a well-attended naming ceremony on 11 January 2023 in Karlskrona, marking the launch of Stena Line’s second E-Flexer ferry on the Karlskrona-Gdynia route. Stena Ebba was named during the ceremony…
2022, like the previous year, continued to be exceptional for the whole world, as well as for Viking Line. Due to the pandemic, the operating environment was initially very unfavourable, with corresponding economic consequences. From the end of February, the…
Work on the restoration of the historic paddler Medway Queen is continuing. The major project has been the rebuilding of the starboard paddle box fascia, which was found to be suffering from the effects of weather. Timber for the reconstruction…
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