Ferries

The two former Hawaii Superferries recently acquired by the Navy are getting new names and some modifications, The Alakai is now USNS Puerto Rico and the Huakai is now USNS Guam. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus says the high speed ferries "will be used for peacetime operations such as troop transport training, exercise missions and humani ...

File this under "how things change." Once upon a time Bangladesh imported ferries from Denmark. Now Chittagong shipbuilder Western Marine Shipyard Ltd. has launched a 50 m RO/RO ferry for Denmark's Hundested-Rørvig Færgefart A/S. Expected to be delivered in June, the ferry has been built to BV class. Ma ...

The Alaska Marine Highway System (AMHS) reports that Alaska Ship and Drydock LLC (ASD) has officially signed on as a partner with the State of Alaska to design the Alaska Class Ferry. The Professional Services Agreement contract signed between the state and ASD designates the shipyard as the Const ...

Vigor Industries' US Fab shipyard will start construction in December on a second 144-car ferry for Washington State Ferries. The Ferries Division of the Washington State Department of Transportation and shipbuilder Vigor Industrial signed papers this week to make the second new vessel a reality for customers of the state ferry system. ...

Almost two years ago, the Staten Island ferry Andrew J. Barberi lost propulsion control in one of its two cycloidal propellers because of a failed solenoid valve in a control panel, causing the vessel to strike the ferry terminal, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). The accident on May 8, 2010 resulted in three passengers being seri ...

Australia's Sydney Ferries has completed what enterprise software provider Ventyx describes as a "significant" upgrade of Ventyx Ellipse for Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), on time and on budget. Sydney Ferries also implemented other  Ventyx solutions as part of a strategic review of ...

Finland’s STX Rauma Shipyard recently held the keel-laying of the double-ended ferry for Suomen Lauttaliikenne Oy (Finferries). The environmentally friendly next-generation ferry will be delivered to Finferries at the end of this year for service on the Korpo – Houtskär route beginning in 2013. A traditional keel-laying ceremony was witnessed by repres ...

Aluminium Marine, Queensland, Australia, recently launched and delivered the 24m x 8.5m catamaran ferry Freedom Sovereign to Freedom Fast Cats, Queensland, Australia. Freedom Fast Cats has also operated the 1980-built Freedom Flyer and 2010-built Freedom Monarch, both designed by Australia’s Incat Crowther. Freedom Sovereign carries 195 pa ...