| Stena gets new clearance

EUROPEAN FERRY GIANT, STENA LINE, HAS RECEIVED
approval by the UK Competition Commission
for its newly acquired Belfast to Liverpool
(Birkenhead) and Belfast to Heysham routes.
Costing the Line around GBP$30m, the
deal between Stena Line and DFDS Seaways,
sees Stena acquire four ships from DFDS
including the chartered Lagan Seaways and
Mersey Seaways on the Belfast-Liverpool
route and the freight carriers Scotia Seaways
and Hibernia Seaways.
The deal, which brings the number of
Stena Lines routes on the Irish Sea to six,
allows Stena to offer new alternative journeys
between Northern Ireland and Great Britain,
and to improve the frequency of its services.