Spanish company Baleària’s latest addition, the eco fast ferry Eco AQUA, has started sailing between Ibiza and Formentera.
The 28-meter-long vessel is the first from the batch of four eco fast ferries ordered by the company. The unit was launched by Spanish shipbuilder Astilleros Gondan in early November at its GRP division.
Capable of carrying 350 passengers, the eco ferries have been designed focusing on eco-efficiency, comfort and speed during navigation.
The remaning three ferries from the batch, which will be named Eco TERRA, Eco AIRE and Eco LUX, will be finished between the end of this year and the middle of 2018.
The quartet will feature a wave-piercing bow which displaces water towards the side tunnels in order to maintain speed. Capable of reaching a maximum speed of 28 knots, the ferries are designed to be able to operate in the different short distance trips that the shipping company makes in the Balearic Islands.
World Maritime News Staff
"We've actually started over completely, and we're probably the industry's biggest startup," says the CEO of major Japanese container merger Ocean Network Express, Jeremy Nixon, in an interview with ShippingWatch. Things will get real starting April 1 next year.
SINGAPORE
Of all the challenging chief executive positions in the global container sector, British Jeremy Nixon seems to occupy the most difficult of all.
Nixon has not only, since July, headed what must in his own words be the container industry's biggest upstart – the merger of three of Japan's biggest carriers, K Line, NYK and MOL, allWe've actually started over completely, and we're probably the industry’s biggest startup"
JEREMY NIXON, CEO, OCEAN NETWORK EXPRESS, ONE.
Acciona se refuerza en México con la construcción de una red eléctrica por 21 millones de euros
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Puerto pasarela para el embarque de pasajeros de Ferrys de Acciona...
Puerto pasarela para el embarque de pasajeros de Ferrys de Acciona Transmediterránea.Foto:
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La familia Entrecanales se ha desprendido de su participación del 92,71% que tenía en la naviera Trasmediterránea para concentrar su negocio. El comprador ha sido el grupo canario Naviera Armas que ha pagado 260,4 millones de euros.
Acciona compró Trasmediterránea en 2002 y le colgó el cartel de 'se vende' en 2014, aunque un año después paralizó su venta. Ahora, con la venta de la mayor
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Kyunghee Park, Bloomberg
15 de agosto de 2017 23:00 CEST
Soren Skou, chief executive officer at A.P. Moller-Maersk, discusses second-quarter earnings, the $732M impairment, his outlook for the fleet, the impact of the cyberattack on earnings and consolidation in the container shipping industry. He speaks on 'Bloomberg Markets: European Open.' (Source: Bloomberg)
The hulking container ships that transport sneakers, bananas and Barbie dolls around the world keep getting bigger. So are the companies that own them.
A massive consolidation is underway in the $500 billion global industry and the survivors now enjoy big economies of scale and increased demand, one
