Stena RoRo has taken delivery of the 13th ship in the 15-ship series of E-Flexer ro-pax ferries from the China Merchants Industry shipyard in Weihai, China.
The ship, named Capu Rossu, was handed over to Corsica Linea following the delivery to Stena RoRo. The ship will start its commercial operation mid-June 2026 and will trade between Marseille and Corsica.
The E-Flexer-series is based on a design which is larger than the typical standard Ro-Pax ferry and designed for flexibility. Each ship will be tailored for the operators’ technical and commercial needs. A highly-optimised hull form, multi-fuel engines and the battery power class notation as well as several other features are said to make this ship one of the most economically friendly to be designed and built.
Per Westling, CEO Stena RoRo, said: “Due to today´s fast development of the hull form design and propulsion optimisation in combination with the Battery Power systems we now start to install on our ships, it is clear that ordering of new ships will be the most important and strongest tool to reduce the CO2 emissions of the ferry industry.”
The ship was built by the China Merchants Industry Weihai shipyard in China. Stena RoRo has been cooperating with this yard since 2016 which has resulted in 19 orders so far. 15 of these have been E-Flexers, two NewMax ro-ro ships and two C-Flexer ro-ro ships.
Westling added: “The cooperation between the CMI Weihai shipyard and Stena RoRo has been instrumental for the successful deliveries of ships and it has made it possible for us to deliver tailormade ships both to our own ferry operator Stena Line but also to several external ferry companies with the highest quality and in time.”
The E-Flexer vessels are 203m long, 27.8m wide and can carry up to 1000 passengers with 2500 lane metres for cargo.
Image: ‘Capu Rossu’ at China Merchants Industry Weihai yard (source: Stena RoRo)
