SUPERFAST TO BELFAST

摘要

Sten a Line has been operating its Cairnryan-Belfast and Liverpool (Birkenhead)-Belfast routes for more than five years, and the service continues to prosper, with the company handling a record half a million freight units at Belfast in 2016. Indeed, the Irish Sea ferry market is booming, with operators enjoying continual increases in passenger and freight carried. In late 2011, when the new port at Cairnryan was taking shape, Stena looked to the charter market to source ships for its Belfast service. They concluded a deal with Tallink for the ferries Superfast Ⅶ and Superfast Ⅷ, taking them initially on a three-year charter, which was later extended and has recently seen Stena purchase the ships. At over 30,000gt and more than 200m in length, they became the largest ferries serving Northern Ireland.