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The marine geophysical company Polarcus has taken delivery of its seventh advanced seismic vessel, the Ulstein-built Polarcus Amani. Designed and built for operations in Arctic waters, the 17-knot X-Bow newbuilding carries the ICE-1A* and Winterized Bas...
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Japan’s NYK Line does not normally accommodate passengers on its container ships, but when the ship is being chartered from another company this policy is changed. The 53,700dwt NYK Galaxy, currently operating between Japan, Australia and New Zealand ...
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The Royal Norwegian Navy has taken delivery of a fourth Skjold class Fast Patrol Boat. Glimt (P964) is the latest in the six-vessel series of advanced, high-speed, surface-effect-ship catamarans designed to patrol Norway’s mazy littoral waters.Althoug...
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The two ships under construction by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at Nagasaki in Japan for Aida Cruises will be designed for year-round operation from German ports, it has been revealed. They will run on diesel fuel rather than the more widely used heavy ...
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The US Coast Guard used cannon to sink a crewless Japanese ship that was drifting off Alaska. The Canadian and US Coast Guards tracked the 200ft Japanese fishing trawler Ryou-un Maru (pictured), which is said to be the first large piece of drifting debr...
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EDT Offshore (Cyprus), an operations and management company for offshore support and dredging services, has taken delivery of a Damen Fast Crew Supplier 3507 and an FCS 5009, named EDT Leda and EDT Nefeli respectively. Both are built to the Damen Sea Ax...
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The cruise ship Azamara Quest, operated by Azamara Club Cruises, a subsidiary of Royal Caribbean Cruises, and carrying 590 passengers and 411 crew, suffered an engine-room fire on 30 March that disabled her engines and left the ship stranded off the sou...
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On 19 March the 112m Dutch-registered motor vessel Flinterspirit ran aground off North Uist and had to be escorted to Stornoway. The vessel became stuck on Flodday Mor Island late at night while on her way from Sweden to Belfast. All ten crew on board w...
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Passage on cargo ships between Europe and Canada has been difficult to obtain in recent years, but at least one vessel is now accepting passengers between Genoa and Montreal. The 45,625dwt container ship Hanjin Palermo, managed by Germany’s NSB Nieder...
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DFDS and Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA) have agreed to form a new company which, from 1 July, is to combine the Channel operations of DFDS and three LD Lines services.
The new company, 82 per cent owned by DFDS with a modest 18 per cent share for LDA, w...
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TT-Line marked the 50th anniversary of services starting between Travemünde and Trelleborg, on 28 March 1962, by vessels flying flags throughout the last week of March and with later celebrations planned for passengers, freight customers and TT-L...
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HMS Liverpool was formally decommissioned at Portsmouth on 30 March. The Type 42 destroyer has travelled more than 921,700 nautical miles during 30 years of service that culminated last year with a high-profile role policing a UN blockade off Libya.
Bu...
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The US Navy’s latest 30-year shipbuilding programme presented to Congress reveals a decrease in the average fleet size to 298 ships through to 2042. The drop from the previous 306-ship average is largely due to the early retirement of existing warship...
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The Netherlands offshore patrol vessel Holland has used her first visit to London to deliver a rather unusual cargo. The warship, which is still undergoing builder’s sea trials, arrived at Greenwich on 16 March, bringing with her a stern-piece from th...
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In a demonstration of faith in the ability of European cruise markets to absorb extra berths, Celebrity Cruises will base six ships in Europe for the 2013 summer season, including four of the five Solstice class ships.
Celebrity Reflection, to be deliv...
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When Sophia Loren christens MSC Divina in Marseille on 26 May, the ship will become the twelfth member of the fast-growing Italian-styled but Swiss-owned MSC fleet, and the third ship of the 138,000 gross ton Fantasia class; the name ship of this class ...
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A number of Royal Caribbean ships are undergoing a variety of changes and upgrades. Rhapsody of the Seas has just completed a $54 million makeover at the Sembawang Shipyard in Singapore in the course of which a number of venues introduced on Oasis of th...
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On 26 March the 13,300TEU container ship CMA CGM Christophe Colomb arrived at Southampton’s DP World Container Terminal on the first call of the revised FAL1 Far East-Europe service. The French lines revised FAL 1 loop is being operated in conjunction...
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A surprising development came on 16 March with the news that eight vessels operated by VW-Nyki Shipping BV, of Rhoon in Netherlands, were being pursued by Deutsche Bank over owners’ mortgage defaults, and it was claimed that crews’ wages had not bee...
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Following a merger of two of Germany’s largest shipping companies, E. R. Schiffahrt and Komrowski Befrachtungskontor, the country’s largest shipping group now has a British name: Blue Star Holding. The jointly managed fleet consists of 143 vessels: ...
