Production of the first hybrid battery ferries for London has begun!
On April 20, 2017 at Remontowa Shipbuilding in Gdansk, the steel cutting for the new two hybrid car passenger ferries ordered by Transport for London…
Extended live fish carrier newbuilding contract for Crist
Polish yard Crist SA in Gdynia has begun work on the DNV classed newbuilding no. NB SC 75/2 with design supplied by the Owners. This is a second…
Alondra container ship partly converted to a livestock carrier
On February 27, 2017, a partially converted ship from a feeder container vessel to a livestock carrier at Nauta Shiprepair Yard SA yard in Gdynia…
Damen Marine Components Gdańsk receives new certifications
Damen Marine Components (DMC) Gdańsk, one of the Damen Shipyards Group’s locations for the production of high quality, high precision steel components including propeller nozzles,…
Polish gas terminal supplied with 2,5 million cbm of LNG
As Polish gas transmission operator GAZ-SYSTEM informs, on Wednesday, March 22, the President Lech Kaczyński LNG Terminal was visited by another tanker with chilled cargo in…
Car passenger ferry Piret arrived in the Port of Tallinn
On Saturday, the 1st of April 2017, the Piret double ended car passenger ferry built at the Polish yard Remontowa Shipbuilding set sail heading Estonia….
US military equipment unloaded in DCT Gdansk
On 28 March 2017, a non-typical cargo was brought aboard the Green Ridge car carrier into Deepwater Container Terminal in the Port of Gdansk. US…
A new ro-pax ferry for Polferries to be built in Szczecin
A preliminary contract signed on March 8 in Kołobrzeg concerns the design and construction of a (single) ro-pax ferry for operation on the Swinoujscie-Ystad route. The…
MS Pride of York relaunched after refurbishment at Remontowa SA
Zeebrugge-Hull route operating sister vessels the Pride of York and the Pride of Bruges, built in 1987, have recently undergone their refit worth GBP 8.5…
Nissan chooses the Port of Gdansk!
From April 1, 2017, a three-year contract for the transport of Nissan cars belonging to Renault Nissan Alliance via the Port of Gdansk will be…
LNG powered Salish Eagle arrived in British Columbia
BC Ferries’ second of three new liquefied natural gas-powered Salish Class vessels, the Salish Eagle, arrived at its British Columbia home on March 20 –…
Malik Arctica ice-going supply vessel delivered to RAL
On 16 March 2017, the Malik Arctica arctic ice-classed supply vessel built at Remontowa Shipbuilding SA for Greenland’s Royal Arctic Line (RAL) left the Polish…
A record number of passenger ships calling at Gdansk in 2017
The upcoming cruise season at the Port of Gdansk promises to be special. Port of Gdansk Authority SA expects that in 2017 as many as…
Unifeeder launches new service from Gdansk
As Unifeeder has recently announced, it will launch a new fixed day weekly service from Poland connecting Gdansk, Kotka and St. Petersburg. The first call…
EFRA Project in LOTOS refinery reaches halfway point
The progress of the EFRA Project (Effective Refinery) to construct a huge complex of units in the Grupa LOTOS refinery reached a halfway point taking…
Norwegian icebreaker with some… Polish input launched in Italy!
The Kronprins Haakon oceanographic icebreaker which Fincantieri is building for the Norwegian government, has been launched at the shipyard in Muggiano (La Spezia) – Fincantieri…