On May 24, Stena RoRo delivered the first of two ordered extended E-Flexer ferries to Stena Line. She is the Stena Estelle and will operate on the Karlskrona – Gdynia line. Like all ships in the E-Flexer series, the new ferry is tailored to the customer’s specific preferences and needs.
Leading transportation company Stena Line will equip four vessels with Yara Marine’s shore power solution to strengthen its commitment to using electricity in shore operations.
As a response to increased customer demand in the Baltic Sea South region, Stena Line will launch its two new E-Flexer vessels on the route between Karlskrona and Gdynia.
Stena Line and Associated British Ports (ABP) have entered into an agreement to jointly develop a new freight terminal at the Port of Immingham in the Humber region.
Stena Line has highlighted that Brexit, coupled with the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, has resulted in a significant shortage of workers needed to fill in vacancies and also address skills shortages in the maritime sector.
The ferry operator Stena Line, Frederikshavn Municipality, and the Port of Frederikshavn has signed a historic agreement in which the parties commit to take their share of the responsibility for making Gothenburg-Frederikshavn the world’s first fossil fuel-free ferry line of its kind.
Kolpa Utime, 64, was the captain of Scot Leader, the 90m-long vessel which almost crashed into Stena Edda. The vessel carried 503 people on board in March in Belfast Lough.
Swedish ferry company Stena Line is deploying two new large and modern ferries on the route between Ventspils in Latvia and Nynäshamn in Sweden this year.
Methanol as a commercially and technically viable marine fuel is gaining greater traction over other alternative bunkers, including LNG, as more shipowners adopt the clean-burning fuel as price spreads narrow and production ramps up.