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FerryIntel Weekly Briefing No. 2

12 – 19 October 2026

Issued

This week

Safety orders and the aftermath of casualties account for much of this week. The Philippine Department of Labor and Employment ordered a stop to work on six vessels of Atienza Interisland Ferries after the June Aster fire. Inspectors found missing safety programmes and more than P600,000 in pay deficiencies, and the vessels are at the Navotas Fish Port. The Chugoku Transport Bureau ordered Kasaoka Ferry to correct 19 breaches after its ferry 第弐拾八大福丸 collided with a fishing boat off Kitagishima on 27 July. No one was injured, and the company is to report its improvements in writing by 14 November. A Kyrenia district court was told that black-box recordings show the ferry which sank on 30 August had faults in its generator, exhaust and steering, and remand for the nine suspects was extended to 23 October. South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries started full operation of a permanent lighthouse on Jokdo on 19 October, for ships on the Jeju–Mokpo route including passenger ferries. The same story records that the passenger ferry 퀸제누비아 2호 grounded on a reef near Jokdo while bound from Jeju to Mokpo.

Route plans and deliveries sit beside those cases. Goa’s river navigation department is considering two 20-metre Ro-Ro vessels, each carrying six cars, between Marcaim and the Verna industrial estate. ASDP and Parameswara Ferry Terminal signed a memorandum only to study a Dumai–Melaka ferry, not to open the route or invest. Nova Scotia and Bay Ferries extended the Yarmouth–Bar Harbor ferry so it runs again from May to October 2027, after a 2026 season of about 44,000 passengers, about 10 per cent more than in 2025. Macau’s Outer Harbour and Taipa ferry terminals handled 7.36 million passengers in 2025, 8.2 per cent fewer than in 2024, and TurboJET cut Sheung Wan sailings in September while airport ferry links are no longer scheduled. Smyril Line took delivery of Akranes from CIMC Raffles in Yantai on 16 October, the second of two new ro-ro cargo vessels, with a capacity of 3,300 lane metres. At Gdańska Stocznia Remontowa, the director-general of the European Commission’s DG GROW toured the Ro-Pax Bursztyn Unity, and more than 90% of the ship’s equipment comes from European suppliers.

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