{"id":2871,"date":"2010-09-30T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercator.nfdtesting.uk\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/2010\/09\/30\/stena-signs-up-cargotec-for-more-roro-conversions-2\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:22:40","slug":"stena-signs-up-cargotec-for-more-roro-conversions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/news\/repair-conversion\/stena-signs-up-cargotec-for-more-roro-conversions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stena signs up Cargotec for more RoRo conversions"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest contracts involve two 26,553gt ro-pax vessels, Stena Trader<\/em> <\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

Stena Traveller<\/em>. Conversion work will be carried out at the German shipyard Lloyd Werft in two separate stages, starting in October 2010 <\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

finishing at the beginning of 2011.<\/p>\n

The conversion work will ensure that the vessels are suited to their new trading routes, between Nova Scotia <\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

Newfoundl<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

, for Canadian operator Marine Atlantic. Over the past few years, Stena RoRo has supplied the company with nine vessels <\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

for the latest two has signed a five-year charter agreement with Marine Atlantic with the right to purchase or extend it over two five-year periods.<\/p>\n

Following the work, Stena Trader<\/em> <\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

Stena<\/em> Traveller<\/em> will be able to carry out two-tier loading <\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

discharge. The scope of work <\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

MacGregor equipment includes modifying the existing stern ramp, a new stern ramp on the upper deck, a new front door, a new bow ramp on the upper deck, opening up of the bow with bow doors <\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

a new bow ramp on the main deck, new car decks <\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

car ramp systems <\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

mooring bollards for Cargotec’s MacGregor Moorex systems at Marine Atlantic’s quay facilities.<\/p>\n

These new contracts follow Cargotec securing orders for conversion work onboard three Stena Line ro-pax vessels: the 39,169gt<\/p>\n

Stena Germanica<\/em> <\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

Stena Sc<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

inavica<\/em> <\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

the 44,327gt Stena Holl<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

ica<\/em>. The conversion work is being carried out in three separate stages, starting in June 2010 <\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

finishing at the beginning of 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cargotec has received new conversion contracts from Stena RoRo for two ro-pax vessels fitted with MacGregor cargo access equipment; these new orders are a continuation of four other Stena conversion contracts that Cargotec secured in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2872,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-repair-conversion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}