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Taiwanese line Evergreen has sealed a deal to charter a series of ten 13,800TEU ships that could give the line a huge competitive advantage over rivals that ordered new tonnage earlier when prices were higher. Evergreen has signed a memorandum of agreem...
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The American Chief of Naval operations has praised the Groton-based Electric Boat shipyard for delivering the latest Virginia class attack submarine a year ahead of schedule and under budget. USS Mississippi (SSN 782) was handed over to the US Navy 363 ...
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Although Workington port lost its rail traffic a few years ago, it has gradually come back into favour and in early March had a very busy couple of weeks. The first arrival was CFL Perfect (2009/6,500dwt), with gypsum, followed by Cemsky (1990/4,566dwt)...
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Russia’s SOVCOMFLOT (SCF) has placed one of the world’s latest X-Bow seismic vessels in service under the name Vyacheslav Tikhonov following the signing of a long-term bareboat charter agreement with Dubai-based Polarcus. The 2011-built vessel, whic...
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When Happy Cruises ceased trading in September 2011, the chartered fleet was dispersed, with Happy Dolphin (1990/23,287gt) returning to her owner in Greece for lay-up, while the Clipper Group-owned Gemini (1992/19,093gt) and Ocean Pearl (1970/22,945gt) ...
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A supertanker loaded with North Sea Crude arrived at Ulsan, South Korea in mid-April to become the sixth such vessel to make the journey to Asia since mid-December. The vessel concerned was the very large crude carrier DHT Eagle (2002/309,064dwt), which...
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Samskip has acquired the container vessels Arnarfell (pictured) and Helgafell (both 11,143dwt), both of which have been employed by the company on the route between Iceland and Europe since early 2005. Samskip has been chartering the vessels since they ...
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Algeria is to spend more than €2.5 billion on new naval equipment to help combat an increasing menace from smuggling, illegal immigration and terrorism along the country’s 1,000km coastline. The money will be spent on two MEKO A200 frigates, six Sup...
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The first Portsmouth-built section of the future HMS Queen Elizabeth arrived at Rosyth on 4 May for integration with other delivered modules. The 1,820-tonne stern section, which has been built in two halves over 15 months, made the four-day journey wel...
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The 34-year career of a vessel regularly seen at Dover, and later at Ramsgate, while sailing to and from Ostend for former Belgian state operator RMT, has ended with her sale to Turkish breakers. Eurovoyager (1978/12,110gt), the last of a RMT trio built...
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The Sapphire (1967/12,263gt) has finally been sold for breaking after being laid up for more than a year in Greece. This attractive little ship was built as Italia by Cantieri Navale Felszegi at Trieste for Crociere d’Oltremare, a Sicilian-based compa...
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Edison Chouest Offshore’s North American Shipbuilding subsidiary has delivered the ice class anchor handler Aiviq to Shell Exploration and Production. She is one of the most technically advanced polar class vessels in the world, and the first of her k...
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With bright pink as her signature theme colour, the new Japanese ferry Silver Princess made a punctual debut serving the northern island of Hokkaido on 8 April. Constructed by Mitsubishi at Shimonoseki for owners Kawasaki Kinkai Kisen, Silver Princess i...
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On 11 April Director André Hollander and Sales Manager Theo Kloosterman announced the first ship repair order for Damen Shiprepair Brest (France). Bourbon’s Anchor Handling Tug Supply vessel Alcyon became the first vessel to use the yard since i...
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When Saga Sapphire (1981/37,301gt) made her first appearance in Southampton on 26 March she was already several days late. The delay in re-delivering the ship from her major refit in the Fincantieri shipyard at Palermo was caused by strikes, thought to ...
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The contract for the removal of the wreck of Costa Concordia has been awarded to US-based Titan Salvage, in association with Italian firm Micoperi. Work was scheduled to begin in May and was expected to take around a year to complete. It seems that the ...
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Seatruck launched a direct service from Belfast to Heysham on 7 May using 1998-built sister vessels Arrow and Ranger, which previously ran into Larne. Later in the year, when the larger P class vessels are introduced, there will be a further switch of p...
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The Scottish Government has awarded the contact to provide Northern Isles ferry services for the next six years, worth £350 million in total, to international services company Serco with both present operator Northlink and its predecessor P&O Ferries...
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The Alam Pesona has broken the record for the largest ever cargo on the Tyne when it brought in 76,195 tonnes of coal. The ship had travelled almost 5,000 nautical miles from New Orleans in the US. Back in its heyday Tyneside had been one of the globa...
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The operation to remove the wreck of the cargo ship MV Carrier, which ran aground near Llanddulas, North Wales, was completed this week. It has taken contractors, PGC, less than six weeks to remove the wreck and all scrap materials from the vessel...
