DFDS Rosslare

[giftgrub]

Visby has left drydock and is alongside the docks in Oresund, now called Visborg but ais still Visby and looks to still be in Destination Gotland branding, with a clean freshly painted hull, might go even faster than before.

Image posted by Oresund Shipyard on LinkedIn

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Visby has left drydock and is alongside the docks in Oresund, now called Visborg but ais still Visby and looks to still be in Destination Gotland branding, with a clean freshly painted hull, might go even faster than before.
Image posted by Oresund Shipyard on LinkedIn

Is she coming back to the Rosslare Dunkerque route?

[giftgrub]

Should be, on the way to Dunkerque at the moment

[giftgrub]

Visborg returns to service with DFDS tomorrow from Dunkerque, images on Facebook show a "half arsed" paint job has been done during refit, with lots of touch ups on the hull and various other areas.

Photos below by Julien Carpentier of the Visborg in Dunkerque today.

[giftgrub]

Better image of the Visborg post refit on the following link, scroll to the end.

https://www.doverferryphotosforums.co.uk/mv-visby-past-and-present/

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Couple of pics of Visborg alongside at Rosslare today (courtesy of Rosslare Europort twitter @Rosslareuroport)

[giftgrub]

Regina Seaways crossing looks to have been delayed last night, left Rosslare just before midnight but went to the Rosslare anchorage before sailing at just after 9, assume it was avoiding weather.

[giftgrub]

Reported on the Facebook this evening that Optima Seaways is returning to Rosslare - Dunkerque route as DFDS increase capacity on the route to three vessels and possibly open up the route to passenger traffic.

Optima has become available following arrival of new vessels Aura and Luna Seaways.

Great article and images here on the DFDS fleet upgrades.

https://www.niferry.co.uk/upgrades-continue-for-dfds-baltic-sea-ferry-routes/

And detailed look at the revamped Optima Seaways here

https://www.niferry.co.uk/dfds-refreshes-optima-seaways-ropax-ferry/

[giftgrub]

Some images of the Optima Seaways in Rosslare taken last Saturday morning May 21st from the Stena Europe.

Looks very fresh after its recent refit and sports one of the earlier scrubber installations when they did not attempt to integrate into the existing design.

[giftgrub]

Reported on the Facebook last night DFDS are about to open the Dunkerque route for passenger traffic from July.

[giftgrub]

Optima Seaways has seeming been redeployed to another route within the DFDS network, it was not being utilised that efficiently spending a lot of time in port, as the route prepares to open to passengers what is the next vessel to arrive in Rosslare going to be ?

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DFDS to start passenger service from 5th August

https://www.dfds.com/en/about/media/news/dfds-to-trial-rosslare-dunkirk-passenger-service-from-5th-august

[loch garman]

Great news. I wonder was the Regina getting power freight loads?

[A83]

Any update on the car / passenger service from Rosslare to Dunkirk? Was thinking of making a trip in January but can see nothing on the DFDS website.

[mightymax23]

Hey @A83 you need to complete a form on the website and they will come back to you on availability.
https://www.dfds.com/en-gb/passenger-ferries/ferry-crossings/rosslare-dunkirk