U.K.’s Wight Shipyard nabs Mexican high-speed ferry order
MARCH 21, 2018 — Building on its export successes last year, the U.K.’s Wight Shipyard has landed an order to build two 37 m, high-speed ferries “across the pond” for Mexico’s Ultramar,
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Wight Shipyard wins its first export order
FEBRUARY 12, 2018 — Britain’s Wight Shipyard Co has secured its first export order. It comes from Austria and is for a 250-passenger river catamaran to operate for Central Danube Region Marketing
Wight Shipyard to build Loch Ness passenger catamaran
SEPTEMBER 11, 2017— The U.K.’s Wight Shipyard Co has booked an order to build a 21 m passenger catamaran for Scotland’s Jacobite Cruises. The order comes hard on the heels of the
Red Funnel orders second fast cat at Wight Shipyard
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 — U.K. ferry operator Red Funnel has placed an order with Wight Shipyard Ltd in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, for a 41 m high-speed catamaran that will inject
London ferry operator adds two low-wash cats to fleet
AUGUST 23, 2017 — London’s MBNA Thames Clippers has added two more fast ferries to its expanding fleet. Built by Britain’s Wight Shipyard Co., the 35 meter low-wash catamarans Mercury Clipper and
Wight Shipyard wins $7.7 million passenger ferry order
OCTOBER 12, 2016 — The largest fast passenger ferry order for a U.K. shipyard in over 25 years has been confirmed by MBNA Thames Clippers yesterday. Two new 170-passenger, 35 m boats
U.K. shipbuilder Shemara Refit rebrands
SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 — Isle of Wight, U.K., based aluminum high speed craft builder and luxury yacht specialist Shemara Refit LLP is rebranding its activities. Following delivery of the first high speed