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Brittany Ferries again seek to maximise off-season deployment with both Bretagne and Barfleur, from the suspended Poole-Cherbourg link, laid up through the coming winter. Idle last winter, the 2009-built Armorique this time has a weekly roster serving R...
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The UK MoD has quietly sold off another three Type 42 destroyers for demolition in Turkey. Exeter, Southampton and Nottingham were towed to Leyal Ship Dismantling & Recycling’s facility in Aliaga, where Invincible was scrapped earlier in the year. T...
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Norway’s Ulstein yard at Ulsteinvik has delivered its latest X-bow vessel, the seismic research ship Oceanic Sirius, to a joint venture consisting of Eidesvik and CGGVeritas. Like her sister Oceanic Vega, delivered in July 2010, Oceanic Sirius was des...
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One of the Royal Navy’s largest ships, the 18,000-tonne Albion class amphibious assault vessel and landing ship HMS Bulwark, arrived at Southampton on 22 September for a four-day visit in support of the PSP Southampton Boat Show. HMS Bulwark hosted a ...
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European owners have been operating platform supply vessels fitted with engines capable of burning LNG as a fuel for some time now, but American owners have lagged behind. Recently, however, New Orleans-based Harvey Gulf Marine has selected Trinity Offs...
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Although LD Lines achieved nearly one-third increase in May-August, passenger figures for its two-ship service between Portsmouth and Le Havre, fast craft Norman Arrow may not return in 2012. The chartered 112m Incat and conventional ferry Norman Spirit c...
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The minehunter HMS Brocklesby arrived in Grimsby on 26 September for an affiliated visit and a welcome home for her commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander James Byron, who was born and raised in nearby Barton-Upon-Humber. After keeping shipping lanes ...
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While the UK government is scrapping its emergency tug service, China’s Guangzhou Huangpu Shipbuilding Company, part of the state-controlled China State Shipbuilding Corporation, is preparing to deliver two 117m by 16.2m 22-knot rescue tugs to the Chi...
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International petroleum tanker owner-operator AET has taken delivery of the world’s first purpose-built lightering support vessel (LSV). The new craft, designed by Elliott Bay Design Group of Seattle and built by Leevac Industries in Louisiana, was form...
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Dover Harbour Board came under fire from ferry operators as a public inquiry into the level of its charges for 2010 and 2011 started. Appearing before inspector Lloyd Rogers at a hearing, P&O Ferries’ chief executive Helen Deeble described discuss...
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Europe has lost a good deal of its shipbuilding volume to Asian yards but its maritime industry is continuing to examine potential trends that it might take advantage of. A recent example of this is the use of LNG as a marine fuel (see SM, August). Wär...
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On 5 October the Liberian-flagged cargo ship Rena (1990/37,209gt, ex-Andaman Sea, Zim America, pictured) struck the Astrolabe Reef off New Zealand at full speed and became stranded. She was carrying about 1,700 tonnes of heavy fuel oil and about 70 tonn...
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Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines has swept the board at the first-ever ‘Cruise International Awards’, held at the Soho Hotel, London on 14 September. The cruise line won the accolade of Cruise Line of the Year in the new awards, which attracted 180,000 vote...
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To honour Turku’s European Capital of Culture status this year, Sail Training International organised a post-Tall Ships Race two-leg competition covering Klaipeda-Turku-Gdynia starting on 21 August. This gave participants in the TS Race, which finishe...
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The former USS Sanctuary (AH 17), the last of the US Navy’s Haven class hospital ships, is being broken up for scrap at the Esco yard in Brownsville Texas following a long-distance tow from her final lay-up berth at Baltimore, Maryland.
The 15,226gt ...
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The Swiftships yard at Morgan City, Louisiana is continuing to turn out a number of 35m patrol boats for the Iraqi Navy, with the lead unit of the series, P-301, delivered at the end of last year and the second and third boats, P-302 and P-303, delivere...
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As well as Stena Lynx III, another well-known UK-based fast craft has left for South East Asia, Condor 10 departing Weymouth for Malta in the final week of September on a delivery voyage to new owners understood to be South Korea’s Jang Heung Ferry.
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Irish Continental Group chairman John McGuckian is encouraged by the performance of the Irish Ferries parent in the first six months of 2011 despite operating profit dropping 26.1 per cent to €6.5 million on revenue up 3.4 per cent to €126.6 million...
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A memorial to the more than 4,000 victims of the UK’s worst maritime disaster was unveiled by Alex Salmond, Scotland’s First Minister, on the site of William Beardmore’s shipyard, Clydebank, on 1 October. The memorial, sited on the exact spot wher...
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Irish Sea fast craft operations continue to decline, with Stena Line selling 86m catamaran Stena Lynx III in addition to withdrawing Belfast-based HSS1500 vessel Stena Voyager and reducing the use of sister Stena Explorer between Holyhead and Dun Laogha...
