Aurora delivery. Aurora sailed from Chile 17th December and is now on her way to Algeciras, Spain where we will take delivery of the vessel. The purchase of Aurora is an important part in keeping our crews employed after the delivery of Misana and Misida to Sea-Cargo.

We are pleased to announce that we have agreed with Navimag, Chile to purchase the roro vessel Aurora. Aurora was built 1991 for Finnish owners under the name Ahtela.

Mistral was chartered to the Spanish roro operator Suardiaz Shipping Lines from January until June 2024, with options.
The intention was that Mistral would trade in Suardiaz new service between Vigo, Spain and Liverpool, UK.
This however did not turn out as expected and Mistral was on relet to Spanish Peregar from February until June and thereafter continuing directly with Peregar until September.

DFDS have used their option and extended the contract for Midas so that it is now valid until 30th June 2024.
Additionally DFDS has another option to extend the contract until 30th September 2024.

We finish the year with some great news - Midas has been chartered to DFDS!

Midas will be redelivered from the charter with TransProCon 31 December 2023 and will after that go on timecharter to DFDS.

CMA CGM has extended the contract for Mimer so that it is now valid until December 2024.

Mimer – and before that the sister vessel Midas – has been running the Leeward Island traffic for CMA CGM continuously since April 2012. The line is an inter

Mistral is presently on charter to Faraoe Island based Smyril Line until December 2023.

Directly after that Mistral will be chartered to the Spanish roro operator Suardiaz Shipping Lines. The intention is Suardiaz new service between Vigo, Spain and

We have extended the contract with Holmen Paper for mv Baltic Bright with one year, including an option for 2025, in direct continuation to present charter. Baltic Bright will continue transporting paper from Hallstavik and Norrköping in Sweden to mainly

Midas chartered to TransProCon

Midas was redelivered from her charter to Stena 17th December and has thereafter been chartered to Göteborg-based TransProCon until December 2023.

Midas will be used in TransProCon service with a combination of liner

Midas has been redelivered from Condor Ferries and has 24th November started a new charter for Stena Line. The Stena charter will last until 17th-19th December 2022.

Midas will trade between Travemunde, Germany and Liepaja, Latvia.

Smyril Line has declared the option and extended the contract for Mistral until end June 2023. Additionally Smyril has an option for extension until December 2023.

Mistral is running on a tough line Denmark-Faroe Island-Iceland. Especially during winter

Midas was yesterday redelivered from Scandic Line and at the same time delivered to new charterers Condor Ferries. She will be used for Condor Ferries service between Portsmouth and Guernsey.

The charter agreement with Condor is for one month.

For

Midas was redelivered from Caribbean Linked Shipping end March and was then used as docking replacement for Mimer in the CMA CGM traffic. 30^th April Mimer was back from the shipyard in Curacao and continued the CMA CGM traffic. At the same time Midas

As communicated earlier DFDS and Godby Shipping have established a long-term co-operation with Godby Shipping buying the two storo sideport vessels Lysvik Seaways and Lysbris Seaways and chartering them back to DFDS for a period of minimum three years.

Midas has been time-chartered to Caribbean Linked Shipping for a period of 3+3 months.

Delivery is planned for New York 12th January. The intended trade is New York – Haiti with trailers, cars, other roro cargo and containers.

As communicated earlier DFDS and Godby Shipping have established a long-term co-operation with Godby Shipping buying the two storo sideport vessels Lysvik Seaways and Lysbris Seaways and chartering them back to DFDS for a period of minimum three years.

DFDS and Godby Shipping have established a long-term co-operation with Godby Shipping buying the two storo sideport vessels Lysvik Seaways (built 1998) and Lysbris Seaways (built 1999) and chartering them back to DFDS for a period of minimum three years

Today we delivered mv Link Star to her new owners Norwest Ship Management AS. The closing was made over Teams.

Link Star will continue to be named Link Star, but the flag will be Norwegian. We wish the Norwest Ship Management team great success with Link

We have on the 22 October 2022 agreed to sell our vessel Link Star to Norwest Ship Management in Norway. For more info on the buyer, see  www.norwestshipmanagement.no.

The delivery will take place in Husoy, Norway between 12 to 25 November 2021.

L

We end the week with some really good news.

Sea-Cargo are very happy with the performance of Misana, Misida and their skilled crews and they have therefore extended the contracts for the period 2022-2026.

Both ships now have contracts valid until end

Mistral

- Smyril has declared the option and extended the contract for Mistral until end December 2021. Smyril additionally have options for extensions until December 2022.

- Mistral is running on a tough line Denmark-Faroe Island-Iceland.

- Especially

On the 5th July 2021 we took delivery of the Swedish roro Baltic Bright built in Karlskrona 1996. Swedish flag changed to Finnish, the name remains the same and most of the crew will be reemployed on Baltic Bright or some of the other ships in our fleet

Link Star contract with UPM-Kymmene has been extended and is now valid until end August 2021.

We delivered our vessel mv Baltica to Cyprus based Salamis Tours (Holding) Public Limited, yesterday 28th June 2021. The vessel was delivered in Piraeus, Greece.

For more info on the buyer, see www.salamisinternational.com.

We have owned the vessel

We have extended the contract with CMA CGM for mv Mimer. The present time charter is valid until end 2021 and this is now extended until December 2023 with option for 2024.

We started co-operation with CMA CGM with mv Midas in 2012. When we had to do

We have this week agreed to sell our vessel Baltica to Cyprus based Salamis Tours (Holding) Public Limited. For more info on the buyer, see www.salamisinternational.com.

The delivery will take place in Piraeus, Greece in the period 25th June – 25th July

Link Star contract with UPM-Kymmene has been extended with 2+1+1 months and is now valid until end September 2021 including options.

Good news – again securing employment for a vessel and its  crew.

Dan

Photo Mike Louagie

Mistral contract with Smyril Line has been extended and is now valid until end September 2021. Additionally Smyril has options to extend until end 2022.

Good news – again securing employment for a vessel and its crew.

Dan

Baltica will be redelivered from Sea-Cargo this week and has instead been chartered to Swedish company TransProCon for May-June 2021.

The traffic for TransProCon will be on the Mediterranean Sea.

Dan

Photo master Argo Kalep

We have in January 2021 agreed to buy the Swedish roro vessel Baltic Bright with delivery in Landskrona, Sweden, in July after 25-year class renewal and installation of ballast water treatment system.

The vessel is presently on time-charter to UPM

Link Star contract with UPM-Kymmene has been extended and is now valid until end May 2021.

The market situation is still challenging but we hope to keep the ships and all our crew employed. Good news even if the contract period is short.

For more

Mistral time-charter contract with Smyril has been extended and is now valid until end June 2021. In addition to this Smyril has further options to extend the contract until end 2022.

Following message from Smyril in connection with the extension

Ple

We have on the 18th January agreed to buy the Swedish roro vessel Baltic Bright. The vessel is owned by Charterfrakt Baltic Carrier AB, she has Swedish flag and is presently on time-charter to UPM-Kymmene.

Delivery will take place in Landskrona

Baltica contract with Sea-Cargo

We have time-charterered Baltica to Sea-Cargo for a minimum period of 4 months January-April 2021. Additionally Sea-Cargo has options to extend the contract until end 2023.

Baltica will be used in Sea-Cargo liner

We have signed a contract with Accordia Shipping based in Florida, USA for the time-charter of Midas from November 2020 until end December 2021.

The vessel will primarily be used in Accordia Shipping liner service between ports in the USA and the

The contract with Smyril for Mistral has been extended and is now valid until March 2021. Smyril has additional options to extend the contract until end 2022.

Nice Friday news – we keep one ship and its crew employed for at least four months ahead.

The last weeks have been very active on the chartering side.

Misida has been charterered to P&O and is used on the Dublin-Liverpool line, the same as Mistral did in 2019. The contract with P&O is for the period July-September.

Midas has started a

Mistral was re-delivered from P&O time-charter at the end of December after trading for five years on various routes in the P&O liner network. During 2019 Mistral was used in the very intensive Liverpool-Dublin service.

Mistral has from beginning of

Dear all,

We are very sad to inform that chief officer Erik Hansson of our vessel Misida was killed in an accident during loading operations in Rotterdam Friday 9 August 2019.

Erik Hansson will be remembered as an experienced shipping professional

We have made a contract with CMA CGM for time charter of the vessel Mimer until December 2021

Mimer is now trading for Marinex but will after redelivery in August go to Landskrona Sweden for class renewal docking and installation of ballast water

Godby Shipping and Marinex have extended the time charter contract for the vessel Mimer until August 2019.

For additional information, please contact managing director Dan Mikkola, phone +358-18-528282, email dan.mikkola@godbyshipping.fi.

Yours

Godby Shipping and Marinex have extended the time charter contract for the vessel Mimer until April 2019.

For additional information, please contact managing director Dan Mikkola, phone +358-18-528282, email dan.mikkola@godbyshipping.fi.

Yours

Godby Shipping are the proud sponsor of Mercy Ships Race, arranged for the first time Wednesday 8 May 2019 in Mariehamn. The race is the day before the Maritime Day (Thursday 9 May, www.sjofart.ax) and you can run or walk 5 or 10 km in central Mariehamn

TransProCon has declared the option for Baltica and the contract is now valid until end 2019. P&O declared the option for Mistral and the contract is now valid until end 2019.

The contract for Midas with CMA CGM has been extended and is now valid until December 2019.

Midas started her Caribbean traffic in April 2012 and will at the end of the present period have been in these nice and warm waters for 8 years. Well done in an

Stena has declared the option and extended the contracts for Misana and Misida until December 2019. Good news!

Both ships will at least for the time being run very intensive traffic Rotterdam-Killingholme and Rotterdam-Harwich.

Dan

- Mistral is on t/c to P&O but have been relet from P&O to Stena for the period 2nd June - 20th/21st August 2018

- During that time she will have some idle time in Rotterdam and will thereafter serves as dock replacement for varius Stena ships trading to

Baltica contract with TransProCon has been extended and is now valid until December 2018 + option.

Link Star´s contract with UPM-Kymmene has been extended and is now valid until December 2020.

On the 11 August 2017 we agreed to sell mv Miranda to Kekepania Shipping Company Limited, an FRS company.

Baltica contract with TransProCon has been extended and is now valid until June 2018

The contract for Mistral with P&O has been extended and is now valid until December 2018 + option.

An agreement for the sale of mv Miranda (blt 1999) has been signed.

As of next year, Misana and Misida will be in traffic between Rotterdam, Netherlands and Harwich, England.

Baltica contract with TransProCon has been extended and is now valid until December 2017.

Godby Shipping and Marinex have extended the time charter contract for the vessel Mimer until December 2018.

Godby Shipping and CMA CGM have extended the time charter contract for the vessel Midas until December 2018.

1st of January 2017 Link Star started her new traffic for the Finnish forest industry company UPM-Kymmene.

The contract for Baltica with TransProCon has been extended with 6 months and is now valid until June 2017.

P&O has declared their option and extended the contract for Mistral with one year until December 2017.

Link Star will start a new long-term traffic for UPM-Kymmene. The charter part with TransProCon for Baltica has been extended.

Godby Shipping and Nor Lines have extended the time charter contract for the vessel Link Star until December 2016.

Godby Shipping and Marinex have extended the time charter contract for the vessel Mimer until June 2017.

Godby Shipping and CMA CGM have extended the time charter contract for the vessel Midas until May 2017.

A contract for the purchase of mv Baltica was signed 8th of August 2015. Thereafter the vessel went through a five-year class renewal docking in Klaipeda.

Stena has extended the contract for mv Miranda until December 2017.

An agreement for the purchase of mv Baltica has been signed and delivery of the vessel is expected to take place in October 2015

The contract with P&O Ferries for Mistral has been extended and is now valid until end 2016 with an option for P&O to extend with an additional year.

Misana, Misida and Miranda chartered to Stena Roro

Mimer will be taken out of CMA CGM service in the beginning of June and then directly sail for the Caribbean. 

Facing the summer peak season 2015 Trasmed decided not to extend the contract but instead reactivate one of their own vessels in layup.

Godby Shipping Ltd has been awarded The Safest Working Place in Shipping 2015. 

Godby Shipping and CMA CGM have extended the time charter contracts for the vessel Mimer until September 2015 and for Midas until May 2016.

Nor Lines has declared the option and extended the contract for Link Star with one year.

Godby Shipping and Trasmed (Acciona Trasmediterranea) have extended the time charter contract for Miranda including option until end of April 2015.

Mistral has been chartered to P&O Ferries from October 2014 March until December 2015.

Mimer has been chartered for 6+6 months to French CMA CGM for Mediterranean trade.

Godby Shipping and Trasmed (Acciona Trasmediterranea) have extended the time charter contract for Miranda including options until the end of 2014.

Godby Shipping and CMA CGM have extended the time charter contract for the vessel Midas until April 2015.

Link Star has been chartered to Nor Lines from March until December 2014. 

Mistral has been charterered to TallinkSilja for the period 17 September - 10th December 2013. The vessel will trade between Stockholm and Turku.

Mimer has been chartered to Nordic Sea Line from April to December 2013. Additionally the charterer has the option to extend the contract until December 2014.

Midas contract with CMA CGM for traffic on the Caribbean has been extended until April 2014 with an additional option until April 2015.

Miranda has been chartered to Acciona Trasmediterranea (Trasmed) for a period including options until December 2013.

Godby Shipping and UPM-Kymmene Seaways have extended the time charter contract for Mistral including option until the end of 2013. 

Midas have been chartered for 1+1 year to French CMA CGM for Caribbean trade.

Godby Shipping and UPM-Kymmene Seaways have extended the time charter contracts for the vessels Mistral and Miranda including option until the end of 2013.

On the 8th October 2009 the lookout on Misana sighted lights in the water outside Ferrol in Spain.

Mv Misana has had problems with her starboard main engine Saturday 13th June 2009 afternoon.

Godby Shipping and UPM-Kymmene Seaways have extended the time charter contracts for the vessels Mistral and Miranda including option until the end of 2011. 

Godby Shipping and UPM-Kymmene Seaways have extended the time charter contracts for the vessels Mimer and Midas including option until the end of 2012. 

NB1282 was christened on the 7th December 2007. The vessel got the name Misida and was delivered to the owners on the 21st December 2007.

Two new vessels in UPM's Spain sea traffic will be launched this autumn. 

Godby Shipping new-building 1281 had its keel laid at J.J. Sietas shipyard in Hamburg on the 14th May and is scheduled for delivery on 19th October 2007. 

The increase of both UPM's own cargo and third party cargo is expected to continue and it has therefore been decided to lengthen the newbuildings.

The Godby Shipping group has ordered two 9.500 dwt roro vessels from Sietas shipyard in Germany. 

Godby Shipping and SCA Transforest have extended the time-charter contract for m/v Link Star so that it - including one optional year - is valid until the end of 2007. 

Godby Shipping and UPM-Kymmene Seaways have extended the time charter contracts for the vessels Mimer and Midas including option until the end of 2008.

Our new office at Södragatan 13 in Mariehamn is ready.

Godby Shipping and SCA Transforest have made a one year time-charter agreement for mv Link Star.

Godby Shipping Ab and UPM-Kymmene Seaways Oy Ltd have entered into long-term time-charter contracts for the vessels Mistral and Miranda.

The contract for the construction of Godby Shipping's new office at Södragatan 13 in Mariehamn was signed 12th June 2003 with Pekkas Bygg Kb.

During 2001-2002 Godby Shipping has worked towards certification of its environmental management system.

Godby Shipping Ab has extended the time charter contracts for the vessels Link Star, Mimer and Midas with UPM-Kymmene Seaways Oy Ltd until the end of 2005. 

On the 5th April 2000 m/s Miniforest was delivered to Balthazaar Shipping Ltd of Malta.

Alpo Mikkola will retire as managing director of Godby Shipping Ab on the 31st March 2000.

Godby Shipping Ab has entered into time charter contracts for the vessels Link Star, Mimer and Midas with UPM-Kymmene Seaways Oy Ltd.

An agreement to sell mv Mini Star to Sweden was signed on the 8th February 1999.

The Godby Shipping group has taken delivery of NB1184 from Sietas shipyard in Germany.

The Godby Shipping group has taken delivery of NB1183 from Sietas shipyard in Germany.

The Godby Shipping group has sold its two multi-purpose container vessels Jenolin and Julia to Portugal.

The Godby Shipping group has ordered two 7.250 dwt ro-ro vessels from Sietas shipyard in Germany.