CG Railway president Hoffman Lijeron with new rail ferry

PODCAST: CG Railway president Hoffman Lijeron on new rail ferries

Two new rail ferries, the Maya and the Cherokee, will enter Gulf of Mexico service this year for CG Railway LLC (CGR), a joint venture of Genesee & Wyoming Inc. and SEACOR

battery hybrid ferry

COVID-19 dents BC Ferries’ revenues and ridership

Canada’s largest ferry operator, Victoria, B.C., headquartered BC Ferries, today released its results for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021 (fiscal 2021). Not surprisingly, the results reveal that the COVID-19 had

Artist’s rendering of the Medstraum ferry

World’s first fully-electric fast ferry starts construction

The Fjellstrand shipyard on Norway’s west coast has kicked off construction on a 31 meter long by 9 meters wide catamaran that will be the world’s first fully-electric, zero-emission ferry to be

Ferrygrounding

Seastreak ferry runs aground in Brooklyn

The largest ferry in the Seastreak fleet, the 150-foot Commodore ran aground in Bushwick Inlet, in Brooklyn, New York, Saturday evening. Coast Guard, New York City Fire Department (FDNY), and New York

Nigel Cabral

PODCAST: Small-scale ferry operations and the bigger picture

In this edition of Listen Up!, we talk to Nigel Cabral, who is the CEO of Tideline Marine Group, a ferry services and maritime consulting firm based in Tiburon, Calif., that focuses

Ferry at sea

First look at new ferry designs for Isles of Scilly

BMT has now released the first details of its cutting edge designs for new vessels to serve the Isles of Scilly, off the southwest tip of the U.K. The Isles of Scilly

Charging system is centrally located on the vessels, allowing charging on both port and starboard from towers located on the terminal’s floating pontoons.

Bureau Veritas to class 10 Portuguese electric ferries

Bureau Veritas (BV) has won a contract for the classification of the 10 electric ferries under construction at the Gondán Shipyard in Spain for Portuguese operator Transtejo. Set to enter service between

Ferry at shipyard

Fully-electric ferry features Schottel propulsion

Equipped with two Schottel RudderPropellers, the 42- by 11-meter Sandøy is the first-fully electric ferry for Norwegian operator Brevik Fergeselskap. Recently launched by Holland Shipyards Group, it will operate operate in the

Rendering of ferry

All-electric ferries will connect to shore power autonomously

Bømlo, Norway, based Zinus AS is to supply autonomous charging connections for the 10 all-electric ferries currently under construction at Spain’s Astillero Gondán. As we reported earlier, the ferries are being built

Profile view of Brix Marine water taxi

Brix Marine builds water taxi for QXMC

Port Angeles, Wash., based boatbuilder Brix Marine (formerly Armstrong Marine USA) is currently constructing a 32- by 12-foot catamaran for the Qathen Xwegus Management Corporation (QXMC). QXMC is the business arm of

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