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Anglesey is hoping for a boost of over £1m into its economy thanks to more cruise ships using the berthing facilities at Holyhead. Next Wednesday, the 25th April, will see Quest at Holyhead. This cruise ship will be the first of 18, six more than 2011....
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It has been reported that the 25-year-old Pacific Pintail, a nuclear cargo ship, is continuing to transport radioactive material after plans for a £44m new ship were scrapped.
The Pacific Pintail has been rescued from the scrapyard in Cumbria after tw...
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Construction of the future HMS Prince of Wales, the second Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrier, began at Portsmouth with a formal steel-cutting ceremony on 16 February. The shipyard will build the 6,000-tonne forward section of the hull known as Lowe...
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A number of new container ship designs have been presented over the past year, and one of the latest is for a 2,000TEU feeder vessel optimised for calling at the South East Asian port of Bangkok. The ship’s designer, Denmark’s Knud E. Hansen A/S, ha...
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Stena Feronia (1997/21,865gt), sailing between Birkenhead and Belfast while regular route vessels Stena Mersey and Stena Lagan went in turn for extended refits by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, needed shipyard attention herself after colliding with the car...
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A UK travel agent is promoting what is being billed as the most expensive cruise ever. Six Star Cruises are promoting the holiday of a lifetime for £1 million, or £8,000 a day. In return, a couple will be helicopter-transferred from their home to Lond...
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Each year at the end of January in Auckland, New Zealand parties in celebration of the city’s founding form in what is called the world’s ‘largest one-day regatta’. The harbour then comes alive with all kinds of craft of every shape, type and si...
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Due to a landslip which closed the A890 Stromeferry bypass road between Lochcarron and Plockton/Kyle near Strathcarron in January, the Highland Council revived the Strome Ferry crossing, providing passenger and vehicle sailings in January and February. ...
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The Royal Navy has handed over custodianship of the historic HMS Victory to a newly-established charitable trust. The HMS Victory Preservation Trust, part of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, assumed responsibility for the iconic warship, which ser...
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The losses of two large ships over the past few months due to apparent human error have made marine salvage work front-page reading. The break-up and loss of the stern section of the stricken container ship Rena on New Zealand’s Astrolabe Reef (see SM...
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In the Mediterranean plans are still being formulated for the salvage of the grounded cruise ship Costa Concordia, with SMIT Salvage appointed to first remove all oils and sewage. The cruise ship lies on her side, with the grounding damage above water â...
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After reporting a 2011 trading profit up 40 per-cent to €247m, the Eurotunnel Group has repeated interest in buying three former SeaFrance vessels for operation between Calais and Dover.
In its annual report the group states: ‘Eurotunnel maintains ...
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Although a small group of former SeaFrance staff in Dover protested at the entrance to the port’s Eastern Docks, all was quiet in Calais as DFDS-LD Lines opened their new joint service using the well-travelled LD-owned Norman Spirit on 17 February.
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MSC Cruises is sending the 1,600-passenger MSC Lirica (2003/59,058gt) to the Caribbean this winter for a new programme of weekly cruises from Martinique from 15 December until 16 February 2013. Aimed primarily at Europeans, the cruises involve Saturday ...
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Princess Cruises’ Sapphire Princess (2004/115,875) has undergone an extensive three-week makeover at the Canadian west coast Victoria Shipyards in British Columbia. This is the latest in the ongoing refurbishment by the company of all its vessels to e...
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The US Coast Guard took delivery of Bernard C. Webber, its first fast-response cutter, at Miami on 10 February. Built by Bollinger Shipyards at Lockport, Louisiana, the vessel is the first of 58 planned Sentinel class patrol boats that will supersede th...
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Carnival Cruise Lines is deploying the 2,680-passenger Carnival Legend (2002/85,942gt) from Tampa, Florida, to Europe next year for the first time. Between 22 April and 31 October 2013 she will operate 17 cruises, including a number from Dover to the Ba...
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After a history of poor performance and unreliability from its Kockums-designed submarine fleet, the Royal Australian Navy has snubbed the Swedish defence contractor by not inviting it to participate in proposals for its future submarine programme. The ...
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The UK MoD is to spend £452 million on a new class of naval tankers for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. The decision to proceed comes nearly four years after rival bidders were first shortlisted to design and build the ships as part of the Military Afloat R...
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During 2011 earnings by the tanker sector took a turn for the worse, and now it is feared that the bulk carrier market could be heading in the same direction. It has been reported that at least one panamax, kamsarmax or post-panamax bulk carrier has bee...
