New service to Koro
PATTERSON has started a new service to Koro Island. Chief executive officer George Patterson said the company has kept costs at a minimum to assist the islanders.
The service will enable the supply of fresh produce to be transported on Thursday mornings to the Suva market.
The ship, The Spirit of Love makes the 55-mile five-hour trip more like cruise through the standard of the ship, crew and general operation. Hot coffee, tea and a variety of food is readily available at affordable prices.
270 on Cruise liner
THE cruiseliner Paul Gauguin was in the Capital City last week bringing with her 270 passengers. She docked at the Kings Wharf for eight hours.
According to the local shipping agent, the Paul Gauguin travelled from Savusavu to Suva enroute to Lautoka on its most recent visit.
She arrived in the country from Tahiti and left Lautoka for Port Vila.
The Paul Gauguin brought with her passengers from Europe. While this wasn’t her first visit, the Paul Gauguin is expected in Fiji again next year.
Ship stuck
THE 1999-built Finnlines passenger-cargo vessel MS Finneagle was reported to have run aground in Kapellskär harbour, Sweden, early on Thursday morning as it arrived from Naantali in Finland.
KapellskÃr harbour is 55 miles north of Stockholm. According to Finnlines, there were no injuries and the ship is not in danger. There are 168 passengers and 30 crew members onboard.
A failure of the main engine caused the ship to loose power and run on to the rocks in the shallow harbour.
Source: maritimematters.
The new generation
PROBABLY no sector of the cruise market has as much buzz right now as river cruising, especially European river cruising.
Huge demand has created a new, more sophisticated generation of ships, among which, the Emerald Sky is the very latest.
The first in what is scheduled to be a four member platform called the “Star Ships”.
The Emerald Sky is also the first for newly formed Emerald Waterways, a slightly less opulent division of five-star Australian-owned Scenic Waterways.
