Norway's Color Line Transport has acquire a Finnlines ro-ro for EUR 15m ($17.46m).

The subsidiary of Color Group said on Friday it will charter the 1,775-lane-metre, scrubber-fitted Finncarrier (built 1998) back to the Grimaldi Group company until the first week of next January.

The charter is at market terms, it added.

After that date, the vessel will "strengthen Color Line Cargo's market share in a growing freight market," it said.