By
Alex Smith |
Tallink’s Grupp’s Romantika is undergoing planned dry dock works at BLRT Repair Yards' Turku Repair Yard in Finland ahead of beginning a long-term bare-boat charter to Holland Norway Lines.
Maintenance works are being carried out according to Tallink’s fleet five-year class renewal plan, including technical upgrades and necessary underwater hull works. In addition, engineers will replace the propulsion shaft seals; overhaul the shell valves, pumps and coolers; perform maintenance on the bow thrusters’ gearboxes and stabilisers; and install a ballast water treatment system.
The vessel will be delivered to Holland Norway Lines on 22 March.
“Romantika is our sixth vessel to undergo planned technical maintenance works since December 2021,” said Tarvi-Carlos Tuulik, head of ship management at Tallink Grupp. “This is to ensure that our vessels are in mint condition to meet the upcoming spring-summer season, and particularly in case of Romantika, to be in good shape for the upcoming long-term charter, to provide excellent service to our good customers and cooperation partners on the Baltic Sea and beyond.”
Romantika previously operated on Tallink’s route between Riga, Latvia, and Stockholm, Sweden. She has been laid up in at the Port of Paljassaare in Tallinn, Estonia, since March 2020, carrying out medium- and short-term charters on the Mediterranean Sea and in the UK in 2021. She will be chartered for at least three years, with an option to extend the agreement for up to two years. Holland Norway Lines will operate the vessel on international routes between Norway and the Netherlands.
Romantika is the sixth vessel Tallink Grupp has chartered since June 2021. Additionally, the company’s vessel Superfast IX, which will be known during the charter as Atlantic Vision, has been chartered out long-term to Canada.