The new Viking Glory enticed a larger share of younger adults to enjoy holiday travel at sea, and an all-time passenger record on the Turku-Mariehamn-Stockholm route was the icing on the cake for Viking Line’s splendid summer. When Viking Glory…
Portland Port is embarking on its largest and most ambitious improvement project to date, investing £26 million in a major berth development. The port has applied for, and had approved, all the necessary permissions to carry out the project. The…
On 3 September 2022, a ceremony was held to name the new ferry Stena Estelle which has entered service on the Gdynia-Karlskrona route. The champagne was broken on the side of the ferry’s bow by the Deputy Mayor of Gdynia…
The EU-Interreg North Sea Region project ‘WASP: Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion’ will convene ship owners, wind-assisted propulsion technology providers and academia at the SMM trade fair in Hamburg on 7 September. Participants of the WASP Conference 2022 will gain key…
The Port of Gothenburg is growing in terms of volumes and enhancing its position as the guarantor of Swedish industry’s access to the world at large – this is reflected in the Port’s reported volumes for the first half of…
The technology group Wärtsilä will supply the engines, waterjets, and fuel storage and supply system for a new high speed catamaran ferry. The vessel is being built at the Incat yard in Tasmania, Australia on behalf of Argentinian ferry operator,…
On 25 August 2022 Mike Kelloway, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard and Mario Pelletier, Commissioner of the Canadian Coast Guard, officially welcomed the new CCGS Jean Goodwill, the second of the three…
At the end of August 2022 the dredger Aquadelta was taken on a short demonstration trip just before she was christened in Rotterdam-Maashaven. Because the vessel has limited depth, she is able to dredge at the smallest and deepest places…
A fire occurred at 1229 on 29 August 2022 on the ferry Stena Scandica while she was en route from Port of Norvik in Sweden to Port of Ventspils in Latvia, carrying 241 passengers and 58 crew. The fire was…
Over the past 15 years, Viking Line has succeeded in reducing carbon dioxide emissions from its vessels by nearly a third. Environmental investments have been made in the Baltic Sea’s most climate-smart vessels and in the technology on board every…
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