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P&O Cruises has cancelled the 2013 World Cruise scheduled for Azura (2010/116,000gt) and instead will return her to the Caribbean for a winter programme of fly cruises based out of Barbados. She will be reunited with sistership Ventura (2008/116,000...
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Pullmantur’s Ocean Dream (1982/36,674gt) has been reportedly sold to the Peace Boat Organisation and will be handed over to her new owners in Panama in April, when she completes her present season sailing out of Fortaleza, Brazil, to ports along the S...
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The port of Portland has hosted two visitors recently which have caused the authorities problems. First, the cargo ship Westwind II got into difficulties during a storm in October 2011 and dragged her anchor before running aground. When she called at th...
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As part of its upgrading programme for its Europe-India service, Rickmers-Linie has added the 17,000dwt newbuilding Rickmers Tianjin to the schedule. The base ports served are Hamburg, Antwerp, Genoa, Mumbai and Chennai, but the service is capable of ca...
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Chinese semi-submersible ships have usually been employed to move fully- or partially-assembled container cranes around the world, but four are now being marketed by ALP Marine Services of the Netherlands, a company formed in 2010 by former staff member...
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Heavylift specialist Dockwise has won The Royal Association of Dutch Shipowners’ annual KVNR Shipping Award for its $240 million bowless semi-submersible being built in South Korea. The ship, which is to be christened Dockwise Vanguard upon delivery lat...
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In November and December 2011 the small port of Workington in Cumbria saw good levels of trade, with a variety of vessels visiting. The Cypriot-flagged cement carrier Cemvale (1992/2,894gt) arrived in early December with liquid cement, while the offshore ...
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P&O Cruises’ 680-passenger Adonia (2001/30,277gt) underwent emergency repairs at the A&P Falmouth shipyard in early January, prior to setting sail on an 87-day Round South America Cruise from Southampton on 13 January. The unscheduled drydocking...
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Malaysia is to become the first customer for a Gowind warship after a €2.14 billion deal was agreed in December 2011. The Royal Malaysian Navy has opted for the 107m variant, the largest of the French-designed Gowind series, to meet the needs of its Lit...
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Maersk Line Limited, the US arm of Denmark’s A. P. Moller-Maersk Group, and Rickmers-Linie (America), the US arm of Germany’s Rickmers-Linie, have joined forces to create a new heavylift breakbulk and project cargo shipping company known as ‘Maersk-...
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US container ship operator Matson Navigation is being split off from its owning company, Hawaii’s Alexander & Baldwin, to operate as a separate entity, with the separation expected to be completed by June. The split is expected to see little disrupt...
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USS Enterprise has marked 50 years of service by completing work-up and qualification preparations for her 22nd and last deployment. During the course of the underway training period late last year, the aircraft carrier conducted 997 arrested landings as ...
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India’s so-called Indigenous Aircraft Carrier was temporarily floated out of dry-dock at the Cochin Shipyard at a low-key event on 29 December 2011. However, the navy’s flagship project is not progressing as planned because of numerous delays in the s...
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Despite the withdrawal of P&O’s Larne-Troon freight service, the seasonal high-speed passenger/car link between the two ports continues with the 91m catamaran Express (1998/5,902gt, pictured) advertised to offer twice daily return crossings from 25 ...
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New Zealand Maritime has reported that the salvage crews trying to remove containers from the grounded Rena cargo vessel are facing problems, although all the oil has now been pumped out of the ship. Plans to remove the 1,300 containers using workers s...
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The Göta Canal, one of the communication links between Sweden’s two largest cities, Gothenburg and Stockholm, is one of the most remarkable waterways in the world. Three vessels work on this Canal, one of which, Juno, claims to be the oldest register...
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After returning from active service in the Persian Gulf and off Libya, Jersey's warship, HMS Iron Duke, is visiting the island for the first time after being formally affiliated with the island at last year's Jersey Boat Show.
The frigate will signal its...
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In anticipation of opening its third set of navigation locks in late 2014, the Panama Canal Authority has ordered 14 new tugboats from Spain’s Astilleros Armon. The shipbuilder, which maintains yards in northern Spain, will receive $158.3 million to c...
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On her return from a winter season in the Far East, Classic International’s veteran Princess Daphne (1955/15,833gt) is being chartered by Berlin-based operator Ambiente Kreuzfahrten from 29 April 2012 for a series of 28 cruises.
By the time she termi...
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Africa’s oldest floating ship, the 1899-built Chauncy Maples, is continuing to undergo conversion into a mobile medical clinic at the Monkey Bay shipyard on Lake Malawi. The project, sponsored by Malawi’s Ministry of Health, The Chauncy Maples Malaw...
