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Ferry sold to StraitNZ Bluebridge

The 'Stena Livia', which currently sails on the Baltic Sea between Travemünde and Latvia, has been sold to the New Zealand shipping company, StraitNZ Bluebridge, and will be used on the Cook Strait. The vessel will be dry-docked for major maintenance work before the trip goes down under. The ferry will join its sister ship, the 'Connemara', on the route from July 2025. This ship was purchased by StraitNZ Bluebridge from Stena RoRo at the end of 2022.

Medevac off Sweden

On Jan 12, 2024, at 10.30 p.m. The Dansih Defense Rescue Center was contacted when a patient needed to be evacuated from the 'Stena Livia'. The ferry, en route from Nymnäshamn to Ventspils, was in Swedish waters at that time, and the evacuation was carried out by a Swedish helicopter.

Medevac off Batz

On Feb 12, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. the CROSS Corsen was alerted by the Maritime Medical Consultation Center (MMCC) in Toulouse because a Romanian passenger of the "Etretat" was suffering from chest pain. The ship was 20 nautical miles north of the island of Batz en route to Portsmouth. The patient was aged about forty years. An immediate medical evacuation was recommended. The CROSS Corsen dispatched a Cayman helicopter of the Navy which took off at 10:26 a.m. from naval air base Lanvéoc- Poulmic with a medical team of the health servic on board. The helicopter reached the ferry at 10.45 a.m. The medical team was immediately hoisted onto the ferry. The patient was hoisted at 11:30 a.m. and taken to the hospital Cavale Blanche in Brest where he was delivered at noon.