#HSStoOffice – It is a struggle for businesses in Istanbul to find new space on which to build their premises and according to the Daily Sabah, one firm near Turkey's largest city has come up with a novel solution, a floating office.

A high-speed ferry, which once served passengers sailing between Britain and Ireland, is being turned into an office by its new Turkish owner, as previously speculated in a report that featured on Afloat.ie

Turkish Karadeniz (Black Sea) Holding bought the One World Karadeniz, formerly known as the HSS Stena Explorer from the Welsh port of Holyhead earlier this year. Afloat adds, the delivery voyage took place at the beginning of November.

For more details, the newspaper reports of the former Dun Laoghaire-Holyhead ferry sale to the Turkish Karadeniz group that also operates a fleet of floating energy powerships. The Stena Explorer had been laid-up in Anglesey since September 2014.

Earlier this year in February, following widespread media speculation, Stena confirmed the withdrawal of the HSS service from the historic route to Holyhead. In addition Stena were to consolidate existing operations from neighbouring Dublin Port to the Welsh port with introduction of conventional tonnage, Stena Superfast X.

In March, the Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company received seven expressions of interest following an invite by the harbour authority to find a suitable operator to provide a seasonal-only ferry service to Holyhead from 2016.

#HSStoTurkey - The former HSS Stena Explorer which was withdrawn last year on the Dun Laoghaire-Holyhead route, has completed in exiting the Strait of Gibraltar this morning bound for Turkey, writes Jehan Ashmore.

The sole remaining HSS craft renamed One World Karadeniz had departed the fast-ferry’s Walsh homeport at the beginning of November without having to call to the UK overseas territory for bunkers.

This is due to the capabilities of using a 2,300 tonnes deep-sea anchor handling/supply tug Bluster. The tug flagged in the Netherlands is been tasked in towing the sold Stena fast-ferry of almost 20,000 tonnes to new owners in Turkey.

In our last report four’s days ago, One World Karadeniz had reached a position off north-western Spain while heading towards Portugal.

Since then the delivery voyage has included the Strait of Gibraltar between Europe and North Africa, where the One World Karadeniz was closer to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta bordering Morocco.

The near 70m tug this mid-afternoon has further progressed into the Mediterranean Sea as the 126m One World Karadenzi is far offshore off Malaga and heading for Yalova.

The port with its shipyards is located south of Istanbul.