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Nautilus International members working for Orkney Ferries voted to take action short of a strike in March in a dispute over pay. A statement by Nautilus International trade union said members voted to take action but did “not want to stage a full walk-out as they understood the detrimental impact it would have on the population of Orkney who rely on
Viking Line has sold its vessel Isabella to Baltic Sea ferry operator Tallink Silja after replacing it with Viking Grace on the Turku-Stockholm route. A statement from Viking Line explained that in the early planning stages of its LNG-fuelled Viking Grace a sale of Isabella was included in the company’s 2009 financial plan. The vessel has been on sale since 2012. After it was replaced by Viking Grace on the Turku-Stockholm route in January, Isabella exchanged places with Amorella for a few weeks while the latter was in drydock. Isabella is in Turku at time
Incheon Port Authority’s (IPA) LNG- fuelled electric propelled ferry is now ready for service after final test runs and sea trials that took place in South Korea in March.
The 200gt ship was designed by Samsung Heavy Industries in Korea on behalf of state-owned IPA. Considered a pilot project in green shipping technology, using dual-fuel full electric propulsion in a passenger ship is a new development for South Korea, driven by the goals of
reducing CO2, NOx and fuel. The ship will take passengers on various routes to and from Incheon port.
Norwegian manufacturer Stadt
experience, it had issued a new rule note providing extra technical interpretations to complement SOLAS requirements and IMO explanatory note circulars.
Orkney Ferries and trade union in dispute over pay their lifeline services.”
An overtime ban came into effect after members of the union voted in ballots for industrial action. “This is creating significant difficulties,” the Scottish ferry operator’s owner Orkney Islands Council said in a statement, adding that it was committed to ending the dispute as soon as possible.
Viking Line sells Isabella as part of long-term plan
of writing, waiting to be docked. Viking Line said that its plan to temporarily bring Isabella onto the Helsinki-Tallinn route for the summer season was now redundant following the sale of the ferry. “The sale of Isabella has been part of our long term strategy and has now become reality,” Viking Line managing director Mikael Backman said. “For our company, the Helsinki-Tallinn route is extremely significant and the aim is to find yet more sustainable options for the development of Baltic Sea travel in future.”
South Korea’s pilot green ship ready for service
provided the electric drives, gears and propellers as part of its Stascho No-Loss Drive system. The company pointed out that the IPA green ship would also benefit from the highly redundant drive technology, which reduces the risk of propulsion loss to an absolute minimum, it claimed. It explained that the AC drives are split into three segregated power units, so that only a part of the propulsion power will be lost in the case of failures. The dual-fuel generator set was
provided by Wärtsilä, while Samsung was responsible for the main electric switchboards, system engineering and LNG tank systems. PST
in brief
• Stena International Freight has entered a new market with the launch of a ferry service between Sokcho in South Korea and the Russian ports of Zarubino and Vladivostok. The company said the new service would initially be operated by ropax vessel New Blue Ocean, which offers 1,400 lane metres of trucks and containers and capacity for 750 passengers. The business operates under the name Stena Line Daea, which is 90 per cent owned by Stena and 10 per cent owned by South Korean shipping group Daea.
• Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL) has announced the name of its second diesel electric hybrid newbuilding, chosen after public vote. The ropax ferry, which is being built at Ferguson Shipbuilders Ltd in Port Glasgow, is due to be launched in May and will be called Lochinvar. Its sister vessel Hallaig will enter service this summer on the Sconser-Raasay route. Both names are taken from well known Scottish poems.
• The Canadian Ferry Operators Association (CFOA) has joined Green Marine, a joint Canada-US initiative aimed at improving the environmental performance of marine companies. Green Marine executive director David Bolduc said that CFOA’s membership sent a “clear signal that ferry operators are willing to take part in the collective effort to reduce the industry’s environmental footprint and it will also highlight the environmental efforts they are already deploying.” Jamie Marshall, CFOA’s chair, added: “we have a responsibility to our generation and future generations to ensure we have clean waterways.”
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