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AWARDS 2022 | Best Landing Craft – Offshore – Ros Aine – Chartwell Marine
Best Landing Craft – Offshore – Ros Aine – Chartwell Marine Chartwell Marine is rapidly becoming known globally for its innovative and imaginative workboats. This landing craft is no exception. A multi-purpose boat, she can do amazing things. She is an all-aluminium, diesel outboard-powered landing craft with ..
OPINION | How will Australia pay for the AUKUS submarines?
Australia’s nuclear-powered submarine fleet is going to be expensive. Not only will the initial production cost run into the tens of billions, but there will be significant ongoing outlays for platform sustainment, operational use and shore-based infrastructure. Australia’s share of the cost of the “SSN ..
AWARDS 2022 | Best Firefighting Tug – Safi-14 – Robert Allan Ltd
Best Firefighting Tug – Safi-14 – Robert Allan Ltd Yet another impressive Robert Allan Ltd design, this time for a Turkish owner. This is, at 25 metres LOA, a compact but still powerful tug offering 74 tonnes bp. As a harbour tug, its substantial FiFi capability will be of considerable value to its owner and the port ..
FEATURE | Supatra Boats: a long history and a strong future
Many of the world’s great cities are built on rivers. Most have developed fleets of cross-river ferries, but few have developed a commuter fleet that takes people up and down river to work, sightsee, and shop. Today’s Bangkok has a state-of-the-art transportation network of buses, sky train, subway, and affordable ..
AWARDS 2022 | Best Davit Supplier – Vestdavit
Best Davit Supplier – Vestdavit The design and construction of davits for the launching and recovery of smaller craft from motherships is a very specialised business, something of an art and a craft. Norway’s Vestdavit was established in 1975 and is now globally renowned for both its custom built and standard range of ..
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COLUMN | A load of bollards: the US Coast Guard (and others) should get serious on testing mooring equipment! [Offshore Accounts]
After last week’s analysis of the dramatic purchase of Solstad’s fleet of 37 platform supply vessels (PSVs) by Tidewater, this week’s column deals with a drillship suffering a mooring failure – not whilst drilling on location, thankfully, but alongside at an American ship repair facility. Nobody was hurt, but the ..
Focus on Passenger Vessels
Baird Maritime resumes its regular feature weeks by focusing on the steadily growing, global passenger vessel sector. We will review recently delivered large ferries in E ..
- BAIRD MARITIME AWARDSMarch 22, 2023
AWARDS 2022 | Best Landing Craft – Offshore – Ros Aine – Chartwell Marine
Best Landing Craft – Offshore – Ros Aine – Chartwell Marine Chartwell Marine is rapidly becoming known globally for its innovative and imaginative workboats. This l ..
- BAIRD MARITIME AWARDSMarch 21, 2023
AWARDS 2022 | Best Firefighting Tug – Safi-14 – Robert Allan Ltd
Best Firefighting Tug – Safi-14 – Robert Allan Ltd Yet another impressive Robert Allan Ltd design, this time for a Turkish owner. This is, at 25 metres LOA, a compact ..
- PASSENGER VESSEL WEEKMarch 20, 2023
VESSEL REVIEW | Sinichka – Electric commuter boats designed for Russia’s Moskva River
A series of three new electric monohull commuter ferries have already begun operational sailings on the Moskva River in the Russian capital Moscow. Built by Russian shipy ..
- BAIRD MARITIME AWARDSMarch 22, 2023
AWARDS 2022 | Best Landing Craft – Offshore – Ros Aine – Chartwell Marine
Best Landing Craft – Offshore – Ros Aine – Chartwell Marine Chartwell Marine is rapidly becoming known globally for its innovative and imaginative workboats. This l ..
- BAIRD MARITIME AWARDSMarch 21, 2023
AWARDS 2022 | Best Firefighting Tug – Safi-14 – Robert Allan Ltd
Best Firefighting Tug – Safi-14 – Robert Allan Ltd Yet another impressive Robert Allan Ltd design, this time for a Turkish owner. This is, at 25 metres LOA, a compact ..
- PASSENGER VESSEL WEEKMarch 20, 2023
VESSEL REVIEW | Sinichka – Electric commuter boats designed for Russia’s Moskva River
A series of three new electric monohull commuter ferries have already begun operational sailings on the Moskva River in the Russian capital Moscow. Built by Russian shipy ..
- PASSENGER VESSEL WEEKMarch 20, 2023
COLUMN | A load of bollards: the US Coast Guard (and others) should get serious on testing mooring equipment! [Offshore Accounts]
After last week’s analysis of the dramatic purchase of Solstad’s fleet of 37 platform supply vessels (PSVs) by Tidewater, this week’s column deals with a drillship ..
- March 8, 2023
DP World to expand container capacity at Brazil’s Santos Port
DP World is set to invest US$35 million in 2023 to expand and modernise its facilities located on the left bank of Brazil’s Port of Santos. With the investment, the com ..
- March 1, 2023
Who’s Who: Maritime Movements for January/February 2023
WORK BOAT WORLD: Dr Maximo Q. Mejia Jr will assume his post as the new President of the World Maritime University (WMU) effective June 29, 2023, succeeding Dr Cleopatra D ..
- March 22, 2023
Fishing Vessel News Roundup | March 22 – Norwegian-owned newbuilds, a fish farm workboat for Scotland and a new trawler design from Lithuania
An Icelandic builder delivers two line fishing vessels to owners in Norway as a wellboat is nearing completion before deployment to the UK. A Dutch yard launches a new aq ..
- BAIRD MARITIME AWARDSMarch 10, 2023
AWARDS 2022 | Best Medium Fish Farm Support Vessel – Geraldine Mary – Macduff Ship Design
Best Medium Fish Farm Support Vessel – Geraldine Mary – Macduff Ship Design An unusual looking but exceptionally practical aquaculture support vessel designed by nava ..
- March 7, 2023
VESSEL REVIEW | Camelys – Longliner/gillnetter delivered to western French owner
French shipbuilder Piriou has delivered a new longliner/gillnetter to Armement Cooperatif Artisanal Vendeen (ACAV), an artisanal fishing cooperative based in western Fran ..
- PASSENGER VESSEL WEEKMarch 21, 2023
Marine Propulsion News Roundup | March 21 – Electric retrofit for Michigan Lake Huron ferry, cruise ship fuel cells and more
Royal Caribbean Group joins project to develop new fuel cells for cruise ships Cruise company the Royal Caribbean Group, German shipyard Meyer Werft, and technology compa ..
- BAIRD MARITIME AWARDSMarch 8, 2023
AWARDS 2022 | Best Helm Seating Supplier – Norsap
Best Helm Seating Supplier – Norsap Until two or three decades ago the importance of helm seats was far too often ignored in terms of comfort and safety. The modern stu ..
- January 24, 2023
Decommissioned aircraft carrier languishes off Brazil as dispute with scrappers continues
A decommissioned aircraft carrier is once again under the ownership of the Brazilian Navy after the Turkish company that had earlier purchased the vessel for recycling re ..
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AWARDS 2022 | Best Landing Craft – Offshore – Ros Aine – Chartwell Marine
Best Landing Craft – Offshore – Ros Aine – Chartwell Marine Chartwell Marine is rapidly becoming known globally for its innovative and imaginative workboats. This l ..
OPINION | How will Australia pay for the AUKUS submarines?
Australia’s nuclear-powered submarine fleet is going to be expensive. Not only will the initial production cost run into the tens of billions, but there will be signifi ..
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