MM 90 FC
 Hiiumaa - launched in Kiel (2018)
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The ship class MM 90 FC denotes a series of three double-ended ferries .
history
The ships ordered on August 24, 2007 were built by the Norwegian shipyard Fiskerstrand BLRT for the Estonian shipping company Saaremaa Laevakompanii. The hulls were built by Western Shipyard in Klaipėda , the equipment was carried out on the Fiskerstrand Verft in Fiskerstrand. The construction costs are said to have totaled around 90 million euros.
The ships were used under the Estonian flag with home port Roomassaare in the Baltic Sea between the Estonian mainland and the islands of Hiiumaa and Muhu .
Since August 20, 2015, two of the ferries, the Muhumaa and the Saaremaa , have been used on the resumed ferry connection across the Elbe between Cuxhaven and Brunsbüttel across the Lower Elbe . The connection was temporarily closed again on March 1, 2017. From May 25, 2017, the Muhumaa , which had been renamed Grete and brought under the German flag , the two ships used on the ferry connection meanwhile sailed under the flag of Malta , were used again on the connection. In the summer, the operator exchanged the Grete with Saaremaa . While the Grete was launched in Bremerhaven , the ferry service with the Saaremaa continued until October 9, 2017. A further operation of the ship was prohibited by the owner company, whereupon this ship was launched.
The Elb-Link subsidiary of the Estonian shipping company marketed the ships with a capacity of 160 cars or 16 trucks and 52 cars as well as 600 passengers under the names Grete and Anne-Marie . The company remembered Margaretha (Greten) Handorf from Cuxhaven who, after the First World War, started a ferry connection between Cuxhaven and Brunsbüttel with two cutters with these names.
All three ferries were sold to a group of investors in spring 2017. They were of Conmar Shipping in Jork bereedert . After the Grete , the other two ferries were also brought under the German flag. Home port became Cuxhaven.
The Hiiumaa was laid up in the Ostuferhafen in Kiel after the end of the mission in Estonia in October 2017 .
In September 2018, all three ships were sold to the Canadian company Labrador Marine after they had previously been laid up in various German ports. The Grete and the Hiiumaa operate under new names two ferry routes off the coast of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador and replace two almost 50-year-old ships there. The Grete is under the new name Qajaq W on the route across the Belle Isle Road between Blanc-Sablon in the province of Québec and St. Barbe in Newfoundland , where it replaced the Apollo . It is marketed with a capacity of 300 passengers and 120 vehicles as well as eight trailers. The former Hiiumaa serves as Kamutik W from Goose Bay on the route along the east coast of the Labrador Peninsula to the town of Nain in the north. For this purpose, the ship was equipped with cabins for 80 passengers. The conversion reduced the capacity of the ship to 140 passengers as well as 20 vehicles and 125 cargo units.
The Saaremaa was sold to the Société des traversiers du Québec in summer 2019, which needed a replacement for the FA Gauthier ferry, which had already been canceled the previous winter . It runs as Saaremaa 1 over the St. Lawrence River between Matane and Godbout or Matane and Baie-Comeau .
Technical data and equipment
The ships have two vehicle decks, a 5.7 meter high, open deck with five lanes next to each other and below that another 3.0 meter high deck that is accessible via a ramp from the open vehicle deck. The open vehicle deck can be loaded and unloaded via folding ramps with three lanes at both ends of the ship. In front of the ramps there is a foldable bow visor on each side . The superstructures with four additional decks are located above the open vehicle deck. The hulls are reinforced with ice ( ice class 1A). The ships can carry 150 cars. They are approved for 690 passengers. There are seats for 400 passengers on the passenger decks.
The ships are powered by diesel-electric technology . Four diesel generator sets are available for power generation. The generators are of four diesel engines from Wärtsilä Finland driven, two Wärtsilä 6L20, each with 1,200 kW power and two Wärtsilä 8L20 kW each with 1600 performance. The generators from AvK have an apparent power of 1425 or 2000 kVA . An emergency generator from Volvo Penta was also installed. The two propeller pods , one at each end of the ferry, are powered by two electric motors.
The ships
| MM 90 FC | |||||
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| Building name | Build number | IMO number | Keel laying, launching, delivery |
Renaming and whereabouts | image |
| Muhumaa | 63 | 9474060 | April 14, 2008 September 30, 2009 March 8, 2010 |
Grete (2017) → Qajaq W (2018) → in motion Picture shows Grete |
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| Saaremaa | 64 | 9474072 | March 30, 2009 February 13, 2010 June 10, 2010 |
Saaremaa 1 (2019) → in progress Picture shows Saaremaa |
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| Hiiumaa | 65 | 9481805 | October 30, 2009 October 4, 2010 April 28, 2011 |
Kamutik W → in motion Picture shows Hiiumaa |
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| Data: DNV GL | |||||
literature
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Car and Passenger Ferries , Multi Maritime Norwegian Ship Design. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
- ↑ a b c MV "MUHUMAA" ( Memento from March 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Fiskerstrand Verft (PDF, 886 kB).
- ↑ a b M / F "MUHUMAA" , Skipsrevyen. Retrieved May 6, 2019.
- ↑ M / S MUHUMAA , Facta om Fartyg. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
- ↑ M / S SAAREMAA , Fakta om Fartyg. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
- ↑ M / S HIIUMAA , Fakta om Fartyg. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
- ↑ Thorsten Breuer: First double-ended ferry reaches Cuxhaven , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung , August 4, 2015.
- ^ Last Elbe ferry cast off , Nordwest-Zeitung , March 1st, 2017. Accessed March 1st, 2017.
- ↑ Elb-Link-Ferry is supposed to cross the Elbe again on Ascension Day , Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag , 23 May 2017. Accessed on 20 September 2019.
- ↑ a b Wolfhart Fabarius: Elbe ferry temporarily suspended , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung, October 10, 2017.
- ↑ Gerrit Hencke: Cuxhaven ferry: owner company prohibits further use , Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag, October 13, 2017. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
- ↑ New Elbe ferries: Transport ministers open the Cuxhaven-Brunsbüttel ferry connection , Schleswig-Holsteinischer Zeitungsverlag , August 19, 2015. Accessed on August 19, 2015.
- ↑ Justus Randt: Back and forth with "Grete" , Weser-Kurier , June 27, 2015. Retrieved on August 19, 2015.
- ↑ Hiiumaa sold to German interests and on her way to Kiel ( Memento of October 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Shippax, October 4, 2017.
- ^ Four ferries not enough for the Estonian Islands , Ferry Shipping News. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
- ↑ Elbe ferries to Canada sold ( Memento from September 11, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), Hansa - International Maritime Journal , September 11, 2018.
- ↑ Meet the Qajaq, set to sail the Strait of Belle Isle in 2019. CBC News , February 1, 2019, accessed January 20, 2019 .
- ^ St. Barbe - Blanc Sablon (Strait of Belle Isle Area) , Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Transportation and Works. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
- ↑ Alyson Samson: Adios, Astron and Apollo: Modern ferries to take up service on Labrador coast in 2019 , CBC News, September 7, 2018. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
- ^ Goose Bay - Rigolet - Ports North To Nain , Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Transportation and Works. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
- ^ MV Saaremaa I , Société des traversiers du Québec. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
- ^ Traverse Matane-Baie-Comeau-Godbout , Société des traversiers du Québec. Retrieved September 20, 2019.