Thordon Bearings has completed the delivery of COMPAC propeller shaft and SXL rudder bearings for the series of environmentally advanced high-speed ferries under construction at Spain’s Astilleros Armon for Italian operator Liberty
Fincantieri reports that luxury cruise brand Crystal has finalized an order for a third 690 passenger high end cruise ship, exercising an option under the two ship order it placed back in
San Francisco-headquartered SWITCH Maritime, best known to Marine Log readers for its Sea Change ferry, is pushing ahead with its next zero-emission vessel project. And it’s significantly more ambitious than the Sea
A $55,386,000 grant to the Port of San Francisco included in the $3 billion of Clean Ports Program grants announced last month will be used by San Francisco Bay Ferry to create
The Concarneau, France-headquartered Piriou Group’s shipyard in Vietnam hosted a keel laying ceremony Nov. 6 for the two vessels it is building for the Isles of Scilly Steamship Group (ISSG). The ships,
The 37th annual Marine Log’s FERRIES 2024 conference, held in Seattle, brought together over 230 attendees, including nearly every ferry operator from Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, and Alaska. The event, which took
On Nov.1, Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania hosted a ceremony to lay the keels for the first two of four fully-electric ferries for BC Ferries. The keel laying ceremony marked an important
Saying that it has “embraced the challenge of decarbonizing the luxury travel sector,” Artemis Technologies has added a high-end water taxi, the EF-12 Escape, to its expanding range of electric foiling vessels.
Sweden’s Candela has become the first foiling e-ferry developer to bring an electric hydrofoil ferry into public service. As much anticipated, the Candela P-12 Nova has now become a part of the
Stena RoRo has taken delivery of the Saint-Malo, the eleventh in a series of 15 E-Flexer vessels from Chinese shipyard CMI Jinling (Weihai). The ship is long-term chartered to France’s Brittany Ferries.