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To celebrate the occasion, for the first time in the company’s history, all seven of its current cruise ships will be leaving their home berths in Southampton together for a sail past, a review of the fleet by HRH the Princess Royal and a fly-past by th...
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On 21 May there was a double celebration for the port of Southampton and the DP World Container facility when United Arab Shipping Company’s (UASC) newest vessel, the 2012-built container vessel Malik Al Ashtar (141,077gt, pictured), made her maiden c...
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Following the breakdown and subsequent repairs to the cooling system on her port engine, Saga Sapphire (1981/37,301gt) returned to Southampton on 6 May ready to resume her schedule. Unfortunately, the three-ship event in Lisbon on 3 May did not quite ru...
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Noble Caledonia’s Clipper Adventurer (1976/4,367gt) became the first ever cruise caller to Drogheda Port, where US and Canadian passengers disembarked after completing a ten-day fly-cruise circumnavigation cruise of Ireland on 14 May.
The cruise, org...
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On 12 May, in thick fog and darkness, the Chinese-owned former Japanese tuna longline fishing vessel Eihatsu Maru ran aground on Cape Town’s popular Clifton beach about 8km from the Port of Cape Town on the scenic Atlantic side of the Cape Peninsula.
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Somewhat surprisingly, Titan Salvage of the United States has been chosen to raise and remove the wreck of Costa Concordia from the rocks off the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio off the coast of Italy. It had been thought that Rotterdam’s Smit, which won...
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An 823rd birthday might not really be that much of a special occasion, but in the case of Hamburg it was. Over the weekend of 11-13 May the celebrations in the port attracted more than 1.4 million people and many ships from around the world. Hamburg’s...
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Looking at energy efficiency and crew protection against pirates, Japan’s Imabari Shipbuilding has developed a new slim superstructure, called the ‘Aero-Citadel’, that combines a vessel’s accommodation and bridge with engine room and exhaust sta...
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Ferry companies have lost a long-running battle over charges at Dover Eastern Docks after a Government report came out in favour of Dover Harbour Board. P&O Ferries, DFDS and former operator SeaFrance argued they were being forced to pay higher char...
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After being laid up in Belfast from six months, Stena Caledonia (1981/ 12,619gt) began a delivery voyage to her new Indonesian owners ASDP Ferry in early June. Moved to a berth in the Musgrave Channel at the site of the former Harland & Wolff yard w...
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Royal Caribbean International will position nine ships in Europe for the 2013 summer season, down from a peak of 12 in 2012. Newly announced itineraries for Vision of the Seas (1998/78,340gt) see the ship based in Copenhagen and Stockholm from May to Au...
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Voyages to Antiquity’s Aegean Odyssey (1973/11,563gt) will be taken out of service at the end of October for a major refit that will include the installation of a number of additional cabins on what is currently an open deck at the stern. It is though...
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If you are reading this edition in the UK, there may still be time for you to attend P&O’s Grand Event on 3 July. The company’s entire fleet of seven ships will be in Southampton that day and will sail during the early evening, departing between...
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More completed sections of the future HMS Queen Elizabeth have arrived in Rosyth from shipyards in Portsmouth and Birkenhead. BAE Systems delivered Lower Block 02, the second sizeable piece to be shipped to Scotland from the Hampshire yard in a month. T...
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The long-running handbagging between Spain and the UK over the sovereignty of Gibraltar has continued, with more tense stand-offs between fishing boats and authorities from both sides. In the most recent incidents, the Royal Navy’s HMS Sabre and...
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The Royal New Zealand Navy has admitted that it may not be able to deploy up to half its fleet of inshore patrol vessels over the next 12 months due to crew shortages. The lack of manpower has been blamed on a government scheme that switched more than 3...
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Hull design is becoming very important in the race towards better fuel efficiency, and a number of new bow designs have been appearing on ships recently, including the ‘Cross-Bow’ developed by Holland’s Groot Ship Design and recently applied to a ...
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On 28 April one of the oldest gas tankers in the world arrived at the shipbreaking yard of Van Heyghen Recycling in Ghent, Belgium. The 21,301dwt French-flagged Tellier, built in 1974 by Chantiers Navale de la Ciotat for Messigaz Gazocean SA of Marseill...
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Norway’s Green Reefers, one of the world’s largest operators of dedicated refrigerator ships, has elected to discontinue operations after its bankers refused to provide fresh working capital following a $30.7 million loss in 2011. The majority of th...
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The future USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) has reached 75 per cent structural completion with the erection of the first piece of the flight deck in early April. The 717-tonne unit containing combat systems and electronics spaces became the 372nd of 495...
