The latest Twin City Liner, which is powered by four Scania D116 076M engines and four Rolls-Royce S40-3 water jets, will operate on the River Danube on a daily route between Vienna and Bratislava, Slovakia.<\/p>\n
Hosted by Peter Morton, chief executive of Wight Shipyard, guests at the handover event were took an inaugural trip on the ferry, which has a service speed of 34 knots and a maximum speed of 40 knots.<\/p>\n
The vessel is the sixth ferry launched from Wight Shipyard in the last two years.<\/p>\n
Strong delivery history<\/strong><\/p>\n In 2016, the shipyard delivered Red Funnel\u2019s 41m aluminium passenger, Isle of Wight \/Southampton fast ferry named Red Jet 6. Two new MBNA 32 m Thames Clippers, followed, representing the largest fast ferry order for a UK yard for over 20 years. Clipper and Jupiter Clipper entered service in 2017. The delivery was followed by an International order for a 39m vessel, the third for the shipyard in as many weeks.<\/p>\n At the end of August 2017 Red Funnel placed an order for its second 41m High Speed Ferry., This was followed by the order from Jacobite Cruises for a 21m day ferry which was delivered earlier this year to Loch Ness.<\/p>\n By Rebecca Jeffrey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wight Shipyard has handed over a 39m long Incat Crowther Design ferry to Central Danube Region Marketing & Development for use as a commuter and sightseeing vessel on the River Danube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shipyard-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maritimejournal.com\/get-set-for-workboat-2050\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}