Ferries

Austal today moved its largest ever catamaran out of the fabrication hall at its Henderson, Western Australia, shipyard. The 113 m long vessel is being built for Denmark's Nordic Ferry Service The vessel will be able to hold up to 1,400 passengers and 357 cars when complete and travel at speeds of up to 40 knots. At around 1,000 tonnes, the vessel is the heaviest Aus ...

Boats, Inc., Warren, R.I., has been adding to its order book. Recent contract include an award by the Maine Department of Transportation to build a 110-foot passenger ferry for the Casco Bay Island Transit District. The design specifications are similar to the Aucocisco III, which were developed by Seaworthy Systems. The proposed 399 passenger, Sub-Chapte ...

Statue Cruises, a subsidiary of Hornblower Cruises & Events., has signed an agreement with Derecktor Shipyards in Bridgeport, Conn., to complete the world's first hybrid ferry using hydrogen fuel by April 2011. The new 1,400-horsepower Hornblower Hybrid will run on a combination of energy generated by Tier 2 diesel engines, hydrogen fuel cells, sol ...

The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador is a step closer to taking delivery of two new medium-size ferry vessels. The 42 m vessels will each carry 16 cars and 80 passengers and are under construction at the Kiewit Offshore Services Cow Head Facility near Marystown. Today, the first of the pair was moved out of the fabrication building at Cow Head F ...

Though Washington State Ferries (WSF) says it will work to implement a majority of 36 recommendations made by an independent expert panel to improve ferry operations, it is not rushing to deal with one suggestion: that it puts bids for new ferries out to nationwide competition. Washington State Ferries's problems in providing adequate ferry capacity got a lot worse back in 20 ...

Australian high-speed catamaran pioneer Incat is set to notch up another first. Under construction at its Hobart, Tasmania, shipyard is Hull 069, a 99 m cat that, says Incat, will be "the world's first high speed passenger Ro-Ro ship powered by environmentally friendly Liquified Natural Gas (LNG)." Thw high speed ferry, with capacity for over 1,000 passeng ...