Marine Log’s FERRIES 2021 attracts largest attendance in 15 years

Marine Log’s FERRIES 2022 event will need a larger space than this year’s. Available exhibit space sold out, the conference room was full throughout the entire event, and registration numbers were the

Set for delivery next year, 37-meter vessel could be first all-electric ferry to enter service in Portugal.

Danfoss Editron picked to power Portuguese e-ferry

The municipality of Aveiro, Portugal, is to put its first fully-electric ferry into service next year. It could be Portugal’s first e-ferry and will replace a diesel powered boat on the one-mile

FinFerries' Altera

Finnish hybrid-electric ferry features Schottel propulsion

Currently under construction at the Crist shipyard in Poland, the latest addition to the fleet of Finland’s FinFerries, Altera, will be able to sail solely on battery power, charging its batteries with

Zero-emissions freight ferry

Scandlines orders zero emissions freight ferry

Scandlines has entered into a contract with Cemre Shipyard, Turkey, to build an emissions-free freight ferry for its route between Puttgarden, Germany, and Rødby, Denmark. The vessel will be built as a

Soundown and J&A Enterprises on ferry noise and vibration control

Q&A: 10 Minutes with Soundown and J&A Enterprises

[SPONSORED CONTENT]: Two Salem, Mass., companies are teaming up to lend their expertise to the ferry industry in the way of noise and vibration control: J&A Enterprises Inc., an engineering firm that

Heddle Shipyards president

Heddle Shipyards picked for cable ferry build

A CAD 3.3 million (about US$2,6 million) investment by the Government of Ontario will see Canada’s Heddle Shipyards build a new cable ferry for the route that links the province’s Simcoe Island

Ferry design e-ferry

Ferry Design: The boat is just one part of the solution

There are a lot of moving parts to designing a ferry system, and the boat itself is just the one that floats. Ferries—and in particular commuter ferries—are components of overall transportation networks.

Cummins and Wabtec on ferry propulsion

Q&A: 10 Minutes with Cummins and Wabtec Marine Propulsion

[Sponsored Content]: Cummins has long provided engines, gensets, and other applications and accessories to ferries, tugboats, towboats, fishing vessels and more. Wabtec Corporation, of which Cummins has partnered with on various sales

Heimat is to be repowered with batteries

Veteran Alpine lake ferry set for battery repower

An historic Swiss passenger ferry built in 1933 and now on its third diesel engine is to be repowered again, but this time with batteries. Carrying up to 60 passengers, the ferry,

Electra uses hudrofoil technology

VIDEO: Electra e-ferry concept unveiled

Alameda, Calif.-based marine technology startup Boundary Layer Technologies has released a concept design for a zero-emission all-electric ferry said to have twice the speed and range of existing e-ferries. Called Electra, the

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