Ferry Fleets Update – 4 January 2022
NIFS brings you all the latest sales, charters, scrappings, orders and deliveries from the European passenger ferry and roro market.
Grandi Navi Veloci
GNV is an Italian ferry company (now merged with SNAV) based in Genoa, that operates ferries between mainland Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, France, Albania, Morocco and Tunisia Part of the MSC group which also owns MSC Cruises and the MSC container shipping company, itself one of the largest in the world.
Stena Horizon | Stena Line
Your guide to ‘Stena Horizon’, which normally operates on Stena Line’s Rosslare – Cherbourg route, including history, technical specifications, and photos.
Stena Nordica | Stena Line (Pre-2023 rebuild – Archived)
STENA NORDICA is a Stena Line passenger and vehicle Ro-Pax ferry. This article contains details of her history, technical data, and photos.
Stena kicks-off Irish Sea refit programme
Stena Hibernia first of 9 Stena Line vessels to visit Harland and Wolff. Stena Line kicked off their 2017 Irish Sea refit programme today (Wednesday), with Stena Hibernia making the short journey across the River Lagan to Harland and Wolff’s ‘Belfast Dry Dock’. Stena Europe will be next to go for refit on Jan 4th, covered by Stena Nordica which is returning to the Irish Sea as the refit cover vessel this year. This follows spells on the English Channel and Mediterranean with DFDS and GNV respectively, following her displacement on the Dublin to Holyhead route by Stena Superfast X. Stena Nordica is of course a part-sister ship to P&O’s European Causeway and European Highlander, having been built for P&O as European Ambassador. £7m contract It is expected that the Stena Line Irish Sea refit programme for 2017 will run until early next May. As reported previously, Harland and Wolff … Read more
