All American Marine Inc. (AAM), Bellingham, Wash., and vessel owner SWITCH Maritime report that the 70-foot, 75-passenger hydrogen fuel cell powered ferry Sea Change has been launched and has started operational trials.
A large-scale energy storage system (ESS) designed by Corvus Energy for large ships is to have its inaugural field trials on a cargo ferry operated by Delta, B.C., based Seaspan Ferries. Corvus
China’s AFAI Southern Shipyard has delivered two Incat Crowther 40 high speed ferries to Zhuhai Fast Ferry Company. The vessels — the Xin Hai Yun and Xin Hai Jun — represent the
Britain’s Wight Shipyard Co. has notched up a U.K. first by building four ferries simultaneously for a leading Maltese tour operator. The order, the Cowes, Isle of Wight, shipyard’s largest ferry export
Nairana, an Incat Crowther designed all-aluminum ferry recently delivered to SeaLink Tasmania by Australian shipbuilder Richardson Devine Marine (RDM), is equipped with state-of-the-art propulsion solutions from Schottel. A structurally identical sister ship
Spay, Germany, based propulsion specialist Schottel reports that its successful Schottel Rudder EcoPeller (SRE) is set to be installed in a retrofit project for the first time. Norwegian ferry operator Torghatten Trafikkselskap
Port Angeles, Wash., based Armstrong Marine USA has been selected to construct a custom passenger ferry for the community of Hat Island, Wash. The 49-passenger USCG Subchapter T vessel features a galley,
Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Somerset, Mass., has just completed a four-month refit of the Cormorant, a ferry that it delivered in 1979. Since then, the vessel has logged thousands of miles under its keel
The two 149 m LNG battery hybrid RO/RO ferries recently ordered by Canada’s Seaspan Ferries (see earlier story) may look a lot like the pair delivered to the operator last year, but
JANUARY 7, 2019 — “2019 is a year of promise for ferry safety,” says Dr. Roberta Weisbrod, Executive Director of the Worldwide Ferry Safety Association (WFSA). WFSA’s Fifth Annual Ferry Safety Conference
