STENA RORO INVESTS IN ENVIRONMENTALLY EFFICIENT RORO VESSEL WITH HIGH FLEXIBILITY
The roro vessel Stena Forwarder, formerly the Frijsenborg, joined Stena RoRo's fleet in October 2023. She is now chartered for Stena Line service on the Irish Sea, operating on the Belfast-Birkenhead route.
The ship is optimized in terms of speed, fuel consumption and cargo, and is suitable for the conditions of the route with limited draught in the ports. The Stena Forwarder replaces the Stena Foreteller on the route and the crew is the same as on the previous ship.
The Stena Forwarder is slightly smaller than the E-Flexer vessels Stena Embla and Stena Edda, which operate on the same route.
VERY GOOD FLEXIBILITY
The ship is distinguished by its spacious cargo capacity on all cargo decks and the capability for high loads on the main deck. This provides considerable flexibility, enabling the ship to operate in several different markets with its easily accessible decks and good fuel efficiency. In addition, the two cranes on the top decks allow flexible load handling on the weather decks.
“Offering the market a vessel with high flexibility and good cargo capacity that also performs well when it comes to today’s and tomorrow’s regulatory requirements, is fully in line with Stena RoRo’s sustainability philosophy and our motto Stenability,” comments Niklas Andersson, General Manager, Technical & Commercial Operations, Stena RoRo.
“The Stena Forwarder is a particularly energy-efficient vessel that in addition to lower fuel costs relative to the vast majority of other roro vessels, also entails significantly lower CO₂ emissions,” says Per Westling, CEO for Stena RoRo. “This investment is part of the renewal of our roro and ropax fleet with not only new builds but also with some of the best of the existing vessels.”
The Stena Forwarder was built in 2016 at the Cantieri Navale Visentini shipyard in Italy.
STENA FORWARDER
- Length: 179 m
- Width: 26 m
- Draught: 6,1 m
- Lanemeter: 2,546 m
- DWT: 11,000
