JULY 16, 2014—Lloyd’s Register has been selected by BC Ferries to class its new Intermediate Class LNG-fueled ferries. Earlier this month, BC Ferries awarded a contract worth about $165 million to Remontowa
JULY 8, 2013 — The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a safety alert on passenger vessel stairway hazards during docking and undocking. Falls in stairways caused serious injury in the January
JULY 7, 2014 — L-3 Marine Systems International (L-3 MSI) is to provide advanced automation, navigation, communications and electrical propulsion facilities for Samsø Færgen, a new 100 m double-ended passenger/car ferry to
JULY 4, 2014—Canada’s BC Ferries has awarded contracts worth $165 million to Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A., Gdansk, Poland, to build three new dual-fuel intermediate class vessels. The three 105 meter, 145-vehicle, 600-passenger vessels
JULY 1, 2014 — An investigation into an LNG spill involving Fjord Lines LNG-fueled 1,500-passenger ferry Bergensfjord has concluded. The incident occurred May 9 during truck-to-ship bunkering of the vessel at Skangass’s
JUNE 24, 2014 — Relatives of victims in South Korea’s Sewol ferry disaster are outraged by news that the Korean Coast Guard has erased parts of the original video footage that captured
JUNE 10, 2014 — A 181 m x 26.6 m LNG-fueled RoRo ferry ordered at German shipbuilder Flensburger Schiffbau Gesellschaft (FSG) will be fueled by taking mobile LNG tanks on board during
JUNE 5, 2014—Vigor Fab has delivered the M/V Tokitae, the the first of three funded Olympic class vessels, to Washington State Ferries, Seattle, WA. Designed by Seattle-based Guido Perla & Associates, Inc.,
JUNE 3, 2014 — The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) yesterday announced the award and distribution of approximately $123.5 million for passenger ferry projects and ferry operators throughout the United States and
MAY 30, 2014 — Fjord Line took delivery of its remodeled and upgraded cruise ferry MS Oslofjord on Friday after it was rebuilt by the STX Rauma shipyard in Finland for service