The Delaware River and Bay Authority is planning a $74 million hybrid-electric ferry to replace the MV Cape Henlopen, a diesel ferry that has served for more than 40 years. SOURCE: ELLIOTT BAY DESIGN GROUP
One of the last surviving ships from the D-Day invasion fleet is the M/V Cape Henlopen, formerly the tank landing ship USS LST-510. After the war it was converted into a car ferry. It is still in active service, carrying cars and passengers across Long Island Sound.
How can there be two ferries with the same name under US register at the same time?
Both in operation on the East Coast, (Delaware Bay and Long Island Sound)
On Thursday at 7:00 PM, Torghatten Nord’s newly built all-electric MF “Hinnøy” made its official maiden voyage on the Bognes - Lødingen route in Nordland, a crossing that is described as Norway’s longest all-electric ferry route.
The ferry is powered by 2 x 188 kW water-cooled electric motors with 4 Scania diesel engines from Nogva as backup.
The 117-meter-long ferry was built at Cemre Shipyard in Turkey and has a capacity of 120 PBE and 399 pax. :
Here it is worth to say clear some details of this biggest ferry-construction-disaster: - This really small ferry Glen Rosa will costs now 185 Mio. British Pounds = 220 Mio. Euro ! ((= other much much bigger XXXL ferry-newbuildings was / are much cheaper !))
Delivery is now expected for early-summer 2026 ! ((so it could be in reality winter 2026/2027 or later…)
The port of Ardrossan is too small for these ferries (was not possible to see it before ?) - 80 mio. Pounds extra needed for the port now.
My speculation:
The yard has no other ships to build - so if they build now very very slowly they could still exists a little bit longer.
MV Glen RosaMS Bergensfjord Unit build cost ~£185 m ~€51.5 m Delivery delay 8 years (2018 → 2026) On schedule Final cost over initial ×4 budget On track
The CEO of Davie shipyard said B.C. Ferries’ criteria were ‘heavily weighted toward the lowest price, effectively favouring Chinese shipyards.’ (Kathryn Marlow/CBC )
The Swedish Transport Administration Ferry Company’s new construction Alvaret is now in place at the Ljusterö ferry terminal, but it will be a while before the ferry, which will now be trimmed into the Ljusteröleden, premieres.
Another example of the destructive incompetence of Australia’s communist governments.
We buy new ships, but neglect to fix their berth at the terminal.
We bought a new Antarctic resupply ship based in Hobart which isn’t allowed to navigate under the bridge to refuel. She has to sail hundreds of miles to another port and back.
You mean the politicians running the Government went ahead and ordered this ship and the Parliament approved the funds without the Management and technical staff of the Australian Antarctic Division having any say so in the design of the RSV Nuyina?
