Flensburger’s new roro to begin test voyage

The ship has left the Flensburg Fjord and set course for Bremerhaven according to Flensburger. The 210-m ferry is on the move to Dock 3 at Lloyd Werft. In the course of its week-long stay, Flensburger will carry out the remaining work on the ship’s hull to optimise the performance data, following which Tennor Ocean will set out on a multi-day test voyage on the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.

In a tightly scheduled programme, all technical systems will be checked and nautical manoeuvres will be carried out. The ship’s 2.11-m folding mast will be tested during the voyage from Flensburg to Bremerhaven. The folding mast was developed by Flensburger for this type of ship and enables the passage through the Kiel Canal, which connects the Baltic and the North Sea. In this waterway, the mast height of a ship may not exceed 40 m above the water level.

Tennor Ocean can accommodate 279 truck trailers on 4,007 lane metres spread over four decks. The RoRo type 4100, which was developed by Flensburger, has already been built several times by the shipyard and is characterised by particularly low fuel consumption compared with the market and an innovative loading concept.

The 32,770-tonne vessel also features two 9,600-kW main engines and two 1,270-kW auxillary engines, enabling a speed of 21 knots.Tennor Ocean is being built for IVP Ship Invest, a company of Lars Windhorst, founder of Tennor Holding and the company that now owns Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft after a 2019 acquisition.

The vessel is the first order secured by the yard. The €140M  (US$153M) contract involves the construction of energy-efficient ferry, and includes an option for an additional vessel.