In Google i have found this picture from july 2021 - but other pictures here was already more actually painted in "100% fresh white".
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It is nearby Trondheim - nobody here in the Forum is living in the Trondheim-region and can do a small "avstikker" to Kvithylla/Rissa ?
I think (but this is only my personal opinion) that Honfleur is already sold to a Northern European ferry company with a lot of competitive pressure on her routes (TT, Irish, DFDS or maybe P+O also). And actually in this 1st quarter of 2022 are now finishing works inside the ferry under construction - maybe to built in a "bastu/sauna" if the buyer is TT, maybe to built in a big "Irish pub" if the buyer is Irish Ferries, maybe to change one of the restaurants into a XXXL Tax-Free-store if the buyer is DFDS or P+O - Tax-Free to/from England is actually booming again... many prices in England are higher than in EU. For these 4 ferry-companies it makes sense that her competitors know so late as possible from the buy of a new ferry. Maybe also it takes time for to prepare the planned ports with the right ramps and the new LNG-infrastructure.
And so the Honfleur will wait until "the last minute" before "trafikkstart" in the Fosen-Yard. And the painting of the logo of the ferry-company on the funnel will be the last work before departure to the new buyer, namesgiving-ceremony maybe only 1 day before traffic-start... . So maybe it can takes now still 3, 4, 5 month more until someone see the new painted funnel with logo and the Honfleur start her life as ferry right in time before the summer-high-season begins. Just for remember, the pax-capacity is 1680, so a start before the summer is important.
But if the buyer would be Baja-Ferries - they have no really competitors - so if the deal is done they can go to the press and start with marketing the new ferry so early as possible. The destination "Belize City" could be a sign for Baja-Ferries - or only a joke or a "fog-candle". But all the other signs like f.ex. the registration in Cyprus is also normal for the 4 named european ferry companies. P+O group has just sold 2 ferries from the Belgium-route to GNV and i think that they have still money and / or can get credit from banks and the other 3 would have to money (and / or credits) also... .
Irish Ferries has got EU-money for her new ordered and then cancelled ferry from FSG. So what happens now with this money ? Honfleur is a kind of a little sister / halfsister of the ordered/cancelled ferry and the 2018 delivered WB Yeats - so maybe we are waiting now for the slowly european administration for to switch the EU-money to Honfleur... (?)
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Pax-capacity and the most technical things of Honfleur are similar with FSG 777 - truck-capacity is smaller - but bigger than f.ex. the actually Blue Star 1 or Inishmore and nearly identic with WB Yeats and Epsilon. The unpopular Visentini-ferry Epsilon is officially for sale since 2 years and Irish Ferries is very happy with the FSG-built ferry WB Yeats - so to buy now the Honfleur is not 100% perfect - but would be still a very good deal for Irish Ferries f.ex. for to hold again Stenas new E-Flexers in the Irish sea or hold number 1 position between France and Ireland.
And with the 187m long Honfleur they have always the option for a lengthening later in the future with ca. 40m for to get a higher truck-capacity if needed up to the originally planned 226m of FSG 777.
So i believe that TT and Irish Ferries are the favorites in the question of a buy of Honfleur - and DFDS and P+O are the outsider.
DFDS prefers to buy cheaper used ferries for Newcastle-Amsterdam, maybe that they try again to buy Moby Aki and Moby Wonder this/next year (this deal was planned ca. 2 years ago but then cancelled by the banks of Moby) or f.ex. Tallink Star and Bithia for to replace the both old 1986-built ferries.
On the "Brexit-Bypass-Route" the "old" chartered Visby is to replace - but this is easy possible with an Apuani-Ropax after arrival of the new Aura+Luna Seaways. Also DFDS seems not to plan to open this route for Pax also, so the big Pax-capacity from Honfleur is not needed.
P+O would have many options with Honfleur:
1) replace the last old Calais-Dover Ferry from 1991/92/93, P+O has ordered 2 newbuildings but if they want to have 5 ferries also in the future between Calais and Dover they must hold 1 old one - or buy Honfleur... = biggest and most modern fleet between Calais and Dover.
2) restart the Belgium-route Zeebrugge-Hull with the big new "Tax-Free-Ferry" Honfleur.
3) start a new "Brexit-Bypass-Route" France/Belgium-Ireland with the Honfleur. The other competitors (DFDS, Brittany, Irish and Stena) in the British-Irish-Region have now such a route - only P+O can actually not offer this "paperwork-free" option to Ireland.
4) the oldest ferries in the P+O fleet are the Norbank/Norbay from 1993/94 on the 4-mostly-freight-ferries Dublin-Liverpool-route. With the Honfleur it would mean also a much bigger Pax-capacity now in Tax-Free-times for a direct-route between 2 big cities and the chartered Stena Forecaster (charter-agreement ends now in spring 2022 !) can be given back to Stena. Very big "sleeping" Pax-potential for Tax-free-cruises there, some million people are living only max. 1 hour by car/bus/train from Liverpool away and Dublin is a very attractive city also.
One last point more:
If any ferry company "now" needs urgent 2 modern ferries with nearly the same size and capacity - MAYBE Tallink will sell the 2007 built Star soon after the arrival of the new MyStar in May/June 2022 - then there is NOW the chance to buy HONFLEUR + STAR together f.ex. for 1 route with 2 ships and symmetric timetable (= f.ex. DFDS Newcastle-Amsterdam or restart P+O Zeebrugge-Hull or Dublin-Liverpool with 2 big ships).
STAR: 186m x 28m, 2000 Pax, 2000 truck-meter, 520 beds
HONFLEUR: 187m x 31m, 1680 Pax, 2600 truck-meter, 257 cabins + many pullman-seats