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Scandlines decides to cancel contracts for two new ferries with yard P+S Werften
The previewed investment piled to 230 million euros
November 28, 2012
The company of Scandlines navigation, joint venture 50:50 between 3i and Allianz Capital Partners, has announced the decision to cancel contracts with German ship yard P+S Werften GmbH for the construction of two ferries ordered in 2010 to the plant Volkswerft Stralsund of the Germanic navalmeccanica company for a previewed investment of 230 million euros.
Scandlines has denounced that, although the own determined engagement, "has not been possible to find solution to the serious technical problems that are risen in the course of the phase of construction having determined a delay of the delivery". Therefore the navigation company has decided the revocation of contracts on the base - Scandlines has explained - "of the inability of the yard to construct the ships online with the contractual detailed lists".
Scandlines would have had to employ the two new ships, that they would have had a unitary ability to 1.500 passengers and 460 motors vehicle (or 90 trucks), on the Gedser-Rostock route beginning from the next summer. "Currently - it has specified the managing director of the company, Søren Poulsgaard-Jensen - we are estimating other options in order to do so as of being able to carry out the route between Gedser and Rostock with new ships in the short possible time. Now it is too soon in order to make conjectures on the effective conclusion of this phase, but our objective to assure high ability with an excellent quality of the service on board and meanwhile to operate in more efficient and respectful way of the atmosphere remains unchanged".
Scanlines has communicated that in the 2013 marine connection Gedser-Rostock it will continue to being served with the current ferries Kronprins Frederik and Prins Joachim, that they have respective an ability to 1.082 passengers and 210 cars and 977 passengers and 210 cars, and has announced that the next year the public areas of these two ships will be modernized. Moreover Scandlines is estimating the possibility to increase the transport ability on the Gedser-Rostock route for the next summery season.
We remember that at the end last summer also shipowning group Danish DFDS had decided to cancel orders to relative P+S Werften to two ships ro-ro ( on 13 September 2012). Currently Berthold Brinkmann, the liquidator of the German shipbuilding company that last August has declared the state of insolvency, is pursuing the possibility to carry to term the construction of some ships, between which the two unit for DFDS.
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