Incat Marine to design fourth ferry for Tanzanian operator
Incat Crowther, Terrey Hills, N.S.W., Australia, is to design a 45 m catamaran ferry for Coastal Fast Ferries of Tanzania. It will be the fourth vessel to be designed by Incat Crowther
Ferries
EBDG to design new Beaver Island Ferry
Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG), Seattle, WA, recently won a contract to design a new 150 ft. steel ferry for the Beaver Island Transportation Authority. The 150-passenger, 24-vehicle ferry will be operated
Kvichak Marine awarded ferry contract
Kvichak Marine Industries, Seattle, WA, has recently been awarded a contract to build a 64 ft 6 in, 150-passenger catamaran ferry for the Chemehuevi Transit Authority of Lake Havasu, California. The vessel
Austal to build 80 m vehicle-passenger cat for repeat customer
Austal has secured an order valued at around Euro 35 million for a highly efficient medium speed ferry for French Polynesian operator and existing customer, SNC Aremiti Ferry. The 80 m vehicle-passenger
Port of Los Angeles VIP tour boat will get hybrid power
The Port of Los Angeles has gotten U.S. Coast Guard approval to retrofit its 42-year-old harbor tour boat, the Angelena II, with hybrid propulsion. When the work is done, later this spring,
Huakai and Alakai transferred to Navy for $35 million
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
ABB to provide energy management for LNG-fueled cruise ferry
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
STX Finland completes car-passenger ferry
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
Chinese Ropax ferry to have MAN Diesel & Turbo propulsion package
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 exclusive operator on the route between the
Video released on new Cuba ferry service
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. As we reported