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Stena HSS Ferry Turned by Turks into Floating Office in Istanbul
#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.