The Navy has just gotten $210 million worth of high speed cats for $35 million. The U.S. Maritime Administration reports that it has now transferred the former Hawaii super ferries Huakai and Alakai to the U.S. Navy and that the Navy provided $35 million to the Maritime Administration for both vessels.Back in October 2005 we repor ...
Ferries
The Navy has just gotten $210 million worth of high speed cats for $35 million. The U.S. Maritime Administration reports that it has now transferred the former Hawaii super ferries Huakai and Alakai to the U.S. Navy and that the Navy provided $35 million to the Maritime Administration for both vessels.Back in October 2005 we repor ...
ABB is to provide an energy management system for an environmentally-friendly cruise ferry. The LNG-fueled vessel is to be delivered to Viking Line in 2013. It is being built at STX Finland's Turku shipyard.The new cruise ferry, a 214 meter vessel with a top speed of 22 knots, will have the capacity to carry 2,800 passengers and will serve the route connecting Turku, ...
STX Finland's Rauma shipyard has delivered the car-passenger ferry NB 1368, the Spirit of France, to P&O ferries. Her sister ship, the Spirit of Britain was delivered from Rauma Shipyard one year ago.The ship will arrive in Dover on Saturday, January 28 and will undergo berthing trials in both Dover and Calais before entering service on the p ...
A 2,200-passenger/1,100-lane-meter Ropax ferry ordered by China's Weihai Haida Ferry Co., is to have a MAN Diesel & Turbo propulsion package.Weihai Haida is the exclusiv ...
In a recently released video, CubaKat CEO Pedro Baez talks about the company's plans to begin operating high-speed ferry service between Marathon, FL, to Havana, Cuba, in 13 months. ...
Foss Maritime Company is joining with Washington State and the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation to build a replacement for a 63-year-old cross-Columbia River ferry.The partnership between Foss and the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) includes the Confederated Tribes whose members will participate in the vessel's final assembly work. ...
Survitec Zodiac escape slides have been selected for two 47 m fast ferries, Perle Express and Liberty, recently completed at Austal's Henderson, Western Australia, shipyard. The ferries entered service in October with L'Express des Iles and are in use on routes between Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, Marie Galante, Dominique, Martinique and St Lucia. ...
Kona Catamaran, LLC, Fort Lauderdale, FL, has reportedly signed a deal with CubaKat, Inc. to build three high speed catamarans that will operate between Marathon, Florida and Havana, Cuba. The ferries will be designed to make the trip in less than three hours.CubaKat is currently ...
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