The newbuild will be assigned to Stena Line\u2019s Holyhead\/Dublin route. At 215m in overall length, she offers a freight intake of 3,100 lane-metres, plus space for 120 cars and provision for approximately 1,000 passengers.<\/p>\n
Stena Ro-Ro has ordered a total of nine ro-pax vessels of the E-Flexer concept from AVIC Weihai shipyard, and Stena Estrid is the first of five chartered by Stena Line. Developed by the Finnish-headquartered, Chinese-owned technical consultancy Deltamarin in conjunction with the contractual owner, the design is claimed to represent a major advance in efficiency for its type and size.<\/p>\n
The flexibility of the class with regard to service allocation, operating profile and customisation, is such that the four other newbuilds in the series have attracted long-term charters from two other players in the European short-sea market, Brittany Ferries and DFDS.<\/p>\n
The 42,400gt Stena Estrid<\/em> is scheduled to be phased on to the Holyhead\/Dublin route, one of the primary conduits for traffic between the British mainland with the Republic of Ireland, in early 2020. Sistership Stena Edda<\/em> is due to follow next spring, for deployment on the Liverpool\/Belfast run, to which the third Stena Line-chartered E-Flexer, Stena Embla<\/em>, is also expected to be allocated in 2021.<\/p>\n The fourth and fifth vessels for Stena Line\u2019s European short-sea network will be an extended version of the design, wherein capacity has been upped to 3,600 lane-metres of freight plus 1,200 passengers.<\/p>\n The primary power installation in the Stena Estrid<\/em> is based on two engines, rather than the four-engine solution common to high-capacity ro-pax ferries. Anticipated maximum speed is 22 knots from the two 12-cylinder, MaK VM43C engines driving controllable pitch propellers through reduction gears.<\/p>\n An unusual feature is the adoption of fully-feathering propellers. At speeds under 18 knots, economical operation can be maintained on a single propeller, with the other unit feathered so as to reduce resistance. Hydrodynamic efficiency is enhanced by the nature of the hull lines, incorporating an optimised bulb, a sternship form that minimises wave-making, and special openings for the bow thruster tunnels.<\/p>\n The vessel has been laid out and certificated to be \u2018gas ready\u2019, so as to facilitate possible future conversion to LNG or methanol fuel.<\/p>\n Economies of scale in conjunction with the closest attention to power and propulsion arrangements and hydrodynamic shape promise about 25% less CO2 emissions per freight unit than existing ferries. A drive-through configuration was chosen to ensure expeditious turnarounds on the busy short-sea crossing.<\/p>\n The layout and technical specification for three E-Flexer newbuilds to be deployed on bareboat charter by Brittany Ferries, plus the singleton fixed for 10 years to DFDS, varies in accordance with the individual operators\u2019 requirements.<\/p>\n PRINCIPAL PARTICULARS – Stena Estrid<\/em><\/p>\n Length overall<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 215.0m<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Breadth<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 28.0m<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Draught<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 6.4m<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Gross tonnage<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 42,400t<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Ro-ro capacity<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 3,100 freight lane-metres + 120 cars<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Passenger capacity<\/p>\n<\/td>\n Approx. 1,000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Main engines<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 2 x 12,600kW<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Speed, maximum<\/p>\n<\/td>\n 22 knots<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stena\u2019s versatile new generation of E-Flexer ro-pax ferries is set to make its debut on the Irish Sea, following completion of trials with the Stena Estrid off northern China\u2019s Yellow Sea coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vessels-shipyards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","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=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
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