Ship Repair
25.03.2024
Ship Repair

Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam completes major upgrades to Stena Line’s two Harwich-Hook RoPax ferries

Stena Line’s two large RoPax ferries that maintain the service between Harwich, United Kingdom, and the Hook of Holland, The Netherlands, Stena Britannica and Stena Hollandica, are now back in service following their drydocking and major upgrade…

Ship Repair
22.03.2024
Ship Repair

Former Unity Line train ferry undergoing conversion in Greece into a conventional freight ferry

The 14,417gt 1988-built Jan Sniadecki train ferry, previously owned by Poland’s Unity Line, is currently undergoing conversion into a conventional freight ferry in the Perama Repair Zone in Greece, close to the port of Piraeus, for the vessel’s new…

Ship Repair
22.03.2024
Ship Repair

First steel cut for container ship conversion to methanol dual-fuel operation in China

China’s Zhoushan Xinya Shipyard has cut first steel on the world’s first container vessel methanol dual-fuel conversion project for Danish container giant Maersk. The first steel was cut on prefabricated blocks for the conversion of the 14,000-TEU…

Ship Repair
22.03.2024
Ship Repair

Correction: Vigo’s San Enrique Shipyard retrofits eSails to Louis Dreyfus’ RoRo Ville de Bordeaux

In the SRN of March 11th, we erroneously reported that Vigo-based shipyard MetalShips & Dock had retrofitted French shipowner Louis Dreyfus’ specialist RoRo vessel Ville de Bordeaux with her new eSail system. In fact, the eSails were installed at the…