Aker delivers fast Color ferry

Aker Yards has delivered a “superspeed” day ferry for Color Line Transport AS. The vessel built at the Rauma yard in Finland is the first in a series of two. The second will be delivered next summer.

The contract for two fast passenger day ferries worth approx. 250 million euro was signed by Aker Yards and Color Line on 15 December, 2005.

“Aker Yards has been well coloured with Color spirit lately – last autumn the biggest cruise vessel ever delivered from our Rauma yard was handed over to Color Line, and this year two of these ultramodern day ferries are leaving the yard”, says Juha Heikinheimo, President of Aker Yards, Cruise & Ferries.

?Color Superspeed 1? is intended for the Denmark-Norway services, and will get its final name later at the christening in Kristiansand, one of the terminal harbours.

Speed and efficiency were the key requirements when the new concept was designed. The operational cruising speed will be 27 knots, and the passage time from Kristiansand / Larvik in Norway to Hirtshals in Denmark will be from 3 to 4 hours. The 211 m long and 26 m wide vessel has 2,000 lane metres of vehicle space and takes 1,900 passengers. There are no passenger cabins in the day ferry.