Eckerö Line's ferry will be retrofitted with a battery pack during her early 2026 dry-dock, an investment that's expected to cut the ship's yearly bunker consumption by around 3.0% (some 500-600 tonnes of fuel).
At the beginning of November 2025, Lakeway Express will be joined by her sister ship Mistral on the 22-hour route in question, enabling round-trip Monday-through-Friday departures.
The Swedish ferry line and the Danish municipality have signed an agreement thanks to which the former will operate the ferry part of the Port of Frederikshavn for the next half a century.
The Royal Caribbean Group has secured the right to construct vessels at the Finnish shipyard through 2036, confirming the order of Icon 5 plus an option for two other Icon-class cruise ships.
Thanks to an extended co-op with Amazon, the company has increased the number of weekly round-trips on the Swarzędz-Barcelona Setemar Can Tunis route to four.
PaxOcean Zhoushan has delivered Martta, the last in the series of three 150 by 27 metres, 1A Ice Class, 1,200-TEU (290 reefer plugs) container ships for the shipping company from the Finnish Piikkiö.
Ferus Smit's shipyard in Westerbroek saw the launch of Kolland, the fifth in a series of six freighters designed for trading through the Trollhätte Canal en route between the open sea and Swedish interior lakes.
