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Sea tri­als for the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny are ex­pect­ed to con­clude by the end of Feb­ru­ary, with a reg­u­larised sail­ing sched­ule to be pub­lished this Fri­day, Trans­port Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our told the Sen­ate to­day.

Za­k­our, re­spond­ing on be­half of the Min­is­ter of Works and In­fra­struc­ture, said the ves­sel re­mains in its Sea Tri­al phase, which is sched­uled to con­clude at the end of Feb­ru­ary 2026, sub­ject to the suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of all re­quired op­er­a­tional and safe­ty as­sess­ments.

As part of the fi­nal eval­u­a­tion stage, night berthing ex­er­cis­es are due to com­mence to­mor­row, Feb­ru­ary 25. Fol­low­ing that phase, the ves­sel is ex­pect­ed to tran­si­tion in­to full com­mer­cial and pas­sen­ger op­er­a­tions.