SSG No 10 - Shipgaz

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Finnjet in her original colours.
Helsinki–Travemünde was closed down. Instead the ferry was
introduced on short cruises from Helsinki to Estonia during
off-season. In the next summer season the traffic to Germany
commenced, but now a call to Muuga in Estonia was included.
In 1999 Travemünde was replaced by Rostock and Muuga by
Tallinn in the summer service between Helsinki, Estonia and
Germany.
Laid up in Bermuda
From 2004 until the end of her career in the Baltic Sea the
Finnjet was employed on the summer route St Petersburg–
Tallinn–Rostock.
Already put for sale, in September 2005 the Finnjet was chartered
as an accommodation ship for students in Baton Rouge,
USA, after the hurricane Katrina. When the charter ended she
was laid up in Bermuda in June 2006. The owner Sea Containers
finally sold the vessel in early 2008 to Club Cruise.
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tanker was sold off
within the Shell Group. In April the tanker was handed over
to Johny Vestvik in Soltin Marine, which already had several
ships trading under Danish flag. One of them is the Pia V, ex
Pia Theresa, which has recently been sold to Cyprus to a new
life as a bunker tanker. The small tanker with stainless steel tanks
was purchased from Herning Shipping in 2006 and was laid up
throughout 2007. Soltin Marine also trade the Dart ex Danish
Dart and the Maria Soltin under the Danish flag and both are
working in trading liquids for the offshore industry.
The Magn has been renamed the Amalie and is a product
from Sieghold Werft in Bremerhaven to Carl Büttner in Bremen.
Until the sale to Shell Føroyar it was mainly trading with lube
oils in Europe. It is at 2,050 DWT and is powered by a MaK
engine type 6M452AK to a service speed of 11 knots.
bent mikkelsen
SCANDINAVIAN SHIPPING GAZETTE • MAY 16, 2008