More warehousing to meet the growing demand for agriculture-related cargo is being built at Newport by the port’s owners Associated…Read More
Cyber Security Put to the Test at Sea +
The testing of a cyber security system for the classification society Lloyd’s Register has been successfully completed by the Israel-based…Read More
Container Cranes to Boost Port Business +
Two new ship-to-shore gantry cranes worth £10.5mn are due to come into operation this month at the Hull Container Terminal,…Read More
Ports Look To Future +
A new Port Futures project to examine emerging threats and opportunities for British ports has been unveiled by the British…Read More
River Barges Go Electric +
The Dutch inland barge operator Port-Liner is working on Europe’s first electrically-powered inland container ship with the Dutch electrical firm…Read More
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North America
Icebreaker Delivers Two Supply Ships to US Antarctic Base +
The US Coast Guard’s only operational heavy icebreaker, the Polar Star, arrived at McMurdo Station, Antarctica, after completing her mission…Read More
US Navy Plots its Course +
In February, the US Department of the Navy submitted its long-range ship acquisition plan to Congress as part of the…Read More
Five Hurt in Engine Room Blaze +
Five crew were injured when the container ship MOL Prestige, 71,902gt, suffered an engine room fire more than 200 miles…Read More
Commanding Officers Face Collisions Courts-Martial +
The US Navy destroyer Fitzgerald, which lost seven of her crew and was seriously damaged in a collision off Yokosuka,…Read More
Anti-Drugs Patrols Seize Cocaine Worth $721m +
The US Coast Guard unloaded more than 47,000lbs of cocaine worth more than $721mn from the cutter Stratton at San…Read More
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Asia-Pacific
Eight More for Evergreen +
The Evergreen Marine Corp of Taiwan, has ordered eight 11,000 teu container ships from the South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy…Read More
Andaman Islands Used for Trial Transshipment +
The trial transshipment of coal between two bulk carriers was carried out in the Andaman Islands in the Bay of…Read More
Three Days of "Violent Fighting" on 10-Day Cruise +
The cruise ship Carnival Legend, 85,942gt, of Carnival Cruise Line Australia, had to put into the port of Eden on…Read More
World’s First Cyber Container Ship Completed +
The first container ship to have an energy management system that has been cyber-certified by the classification society Lloyd’s Register…Read More
Two New Ferries Ordered for Bass Strait Service +
The TT-Line has ordered two new ferries for its Bass Strait service between Melbourne and Devonport on Tasmania’s north coast.
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Naval Focus
Historic Port Visit to Vietnam +
US News In a significant move in March, the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson made an historic port…Read More
Russian Minesweeper Fleet Expands +
Russian News By 2027 the Russian Federation Navy is expected to have acquired a total of ten Alexandrit class minesweepers…Read More
New Patrol ship for Danes +
Danish News On 11 December, in a ceremony held at Naval Station Korsør, the Royal Danish Navy commissioned the third…Read More
Royal Navy ‘Cannibalising’ Ships for Parts +
UK News Once again, the Royal Navy was in the headlines for all the wrong reasons in the closing months…Read More
New Oiler for Canada +
Canadian News The Royal Canadian Navy’s long wait for a new replenishment oiler for the fleet is nearly at an…Read More
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Ferry World
Superfast Stena +
The issue of ferry operation, subsequent to the UK leaving the EU, will rather, regretfully, but unavoidably, continue to feature…Read More
Sanctions Eased for Mangyongbong 92 +
Ever since the 1950s when I was aware of the Soviet merchant marine’s Baltic SS Co vessels which linked Leningrad…Read More
Estonian Arrow +
Viv Llewellyn’s image of the IOM Steam Packet’s chartered Arrow at Poole indicates how advantageous her long term charter to…Read More
A Classic Calais Blockade +
A sign of worse to come? The 25th of January this year, saw French fishermen blockading the Port of Calais…Read More
Lake Cruising +
In the English Lake District, on several of the Lakes, there are lake operations all year round.
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Sail Review/Coastal Comment
Focus on Freshspring +
The Scandinavian connection this month, continues with the welcome reappearance of the magnificently versatile Severn Sea 147gt of Bideford seen…Read More
Fame for Sandgrevstur +
I followed up the casualty Fame which featured in my last Coastal Commentary.
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Hollow Shore Sails +
The Hollow Shore yard had been bought by the Testers who totally rebuilt several smacks including Primrose, Lily May, Ethel…Read More
Nellie +
The 75ft stumpie barge Nellie can be sailed single-handed by her owner Prof Diana Montgomery, because she doesn’t have a…Read More
Ocean Troll +
Meanwhile, as the oil price is showing signs of recovery and the future of other oil and gas fi elds…Read More
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From the Lookout
2018 Spring Quilliam Lecture +
"Quilliam Today" is is this year's title for the Spring Quilliam Lecture on Thursday 5th April in Arbory Church.
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Sydney – A Truly Magnificent Harbour +
Recently, a friend visiting Australia sent me a few photographs of Circular Quay in Sydney.
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UK Chamber of Shipping Annual Dinner 2018 +
The annual UK Chamber of Shipping Dinner is very much an occasion when ‘the great and good’ of the shipping…Read More
The "Wahine" Disister +
10th April 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the tragic loss of the TEV Wahine in Wellington Harbour with the…Read More
Medway Queen +
As a result of a contact made thorough the Steam Boat Association of Great Britain in 2017, artist Mick Dean…Read More
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Cruise News/Superyacht News
The Bridge +
QM2 vs the Super Yachts race results between the St Nazaire Bridge and the Verrazano Bridge in New York
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Just A Storyline? +
Notwithstanding a number of attempts to emulate “The World” by other operators, any past thoughts of competing with the only…Read More
Ocean Liners Speed and Style +
For those readers of this magazine who have a specific interest in ocean liners, and who live in greater London,…Read More
The Beauty In The Beast +
The world of superyachts lost a great designer when Ed Dubois died in 2016.
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Slice Of The Action +
For those who find reading about yachts is not enough, and seek a slice of the action, here is news…Read More