The Smyril Line ship Skipanes is heading to Hong Kong for repairs after a fire in its engine room, KVF reports. The work is expected to take six to eight weeks. Skipanes is expected to arrive in Hong Kong tomorrow morning, according to Smyril Line chief executive Jens Meinhard Rasmussen. He said …

Delays are expected after a fire broke out in the engine room of Smyril Line’s new cargo ship Skipanes, KVF reports. The ship was sailing from China to the Faroe Islands and was between Taiwan and China when the fire started. Smyril Line chief executive Jens Meinhard Rasmussen said the fire was e…

Kringvarp Føroya reports that a fire broke out in the engine room of Smyril Line’s new ship, Skipanes, on Wednesday afternoon. The fire was extinguished shortly afterwards, and none of the 23 crew members was injured. Skipanes was about 20 nautical miles off Taiwan while travelling to the Faroe I…

Smyril Line has taken delivery of #Skipanes, adding 3,300 lane metres of modern #RoRo capacity as the Faroese carrier expands #NorthAtlantic freight services while preparing its fleet for lower emission shipping. #SmyrilLine #FaroeIslands

Smyril Line has taken delivery of #Skipanes, adding 3,300 lane metres of modern #RoRo capacity as the Faroese carrier expands #NorthAtlantic freight services while preparing its fleet for lower emission shipping. #SmyrilLine #FaroeIslands

Smyril Line has taken delivery of its new cargo ship Skipanes and is preparing it for the voyage to the Faroe Islands, broadcaster KVF reported. Skipanes is the first of two new roll-on/roll-off cargo ships Smyril Line has commissioned as part of a larger investment to renew and future-proof its …

About 70 residents in Skipanes and under Gøtueiði experienced a water outage on Sunday evening, according to a report by Faroese public broadcaster KVF. The outage was not caused by dry conditions or low water levels, but by a technical failure. Jákup Pauli Ternustein, water master in Eysturkommu…