- August 20, 2019
REMINISCENCES | The entertainment officer
- August 20, 2019
REMINISCENCES | A rude awakening
- SPAIN WEEKAugust 20, 2019
FEATURE | Adding value in shipbuilding: how Spain leads the way
- SPAIN WEEKAugust 20, 2019
Welcome to Spain Week!
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REMINISCENCES | The entertainment officer
The master’s instructions were short and to the point as he briefed his new fourth mate who had just joined, the ink on his second mate’s certificate scarcely dry. After a four-year apprenticeship in the company’s ships, there was no need to question the officer’s knowledge of the various duties and procedures. The ..
BOOK REVIEW | Giants of the Sea: Ships and Men Who Changed the World
This is an excellent, important and very valuable book. That it has had to be self-published only increases its value and importance. It is tragic that it will not gain the wider readership that it so richly deserves. It can only be hoped that an organisation such as the International Chamber of Shipping, the International ..
REMINISCENCES | A rude awakening
My fascination with all things maritime was triggered in 1960 by our family’s journey from Southampton docks to Australia when I was eight years old. Mum, Dad and seven kids were all transported in “steerage” as 10-pound poms aboard the Sitmar liner Fairsea. I was fascinated with my new surroundings and spent my days ..
FEATURE | Adding value in shipbuilding: how Spain leads the way
The balance of activity for 2020, according to official sources of the Spanish government, through its shipbuilding newsletters, reported that at the end of the year, the Spanish shipbuilding sector enjoyed remarkable results, with 44 newbuilding vessels consisting of 30 merchant ships and 14 fishing vessels. When compared ..
EDITORIAL | Incat goes electric: Bass Strait should be a showcase for electric catamaran ferries
As obliquely mentioned recently in its comments following the Tasmanian state government’s controversial, completely illogical and inadequately explained decision to purchase two conventional steel monohull Ro-Pax behemoth ferries, locally based ship builder Incat has been researching, working on and experimenting with ..
Welcome to Spain Week!
According to the data provided by Sea Europe for the first half of 2020, in terms of orderbook, the important role that Spanish shipyards play in the European market is clearly reflected. And likewise, in terms of the number of vessels completed, the Spanish shipbuilding sector is one of those leading the market, rivaled by ..
Welcome to Tug and Salvage Week!
While the wider global ship and boat building industry remains busy, productive and, apparently, largely unaffected by the Covid-19 pandemic, the tug sector appears to be ..
- July 21, 2021
Chinese yard delivers Malaccamax VLCC to local owner
China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC) has delivered a new very large crude carrier (VLCC) to local shipowner China Shipbuilding Consulting Company. Cl ..
- July 13, 2021
Sea and gas trials completed for France’s first LNG bunkering vessel
Sea and gas trials of the first LNG bunkering vessel to be based in France have been completed, Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and TotalEnergies Marine Fuels confirmed on Tuesday ..
- NAVAL ARCHITECTURE WEEKJune 25, 2021
South Korean shipyard to form shipbuilding R&D council with global partners
South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) is set to form a technical council along with global organisations with the objective of conducting ..
- July 21, 2021
Chinese yard delivers Malaccamax VLCC to local owner
China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC) has delivered a new very large crude carrier (VLCC) to local shipowner China Shipbuilding Consulting Company. Cl ..
- July 13, 2021
Sea and gas trials completed for France’s first LNG bunkering vessel
Sea and gas trials of the first LNG bunkering vessel to be based in France have been completed, Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) and TotalEnergies Marine Fuels confirmed on Tuesday ..
- NAVAL ARCHITECTURE WEEKJune 25, 2021
South Korean shipyard to form shipbuilding R&D council with global partners
South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) is set to form a technical council along with global organisations with the objective of conducting ..
- July 26, 2021
DP World, Rosatom to develop Russia’s Northern Transit Corridor to accommodate increased Asia-Europe cargo
UAE-based DP World and Russian state-owned nuclear energy company Rosatom have entered into an agreement to develop Russia’s Northern Transit Corridor as a sustaina ..
- July 12, 2021
ZIM, Seaspan enter long-term charters for 10 LNG-fueled boxships
ZIM Integrated Shipping Services and Seaspan Corporation have entered into an agreement for the long-term charters of ten 7,000TEU container vessels. The vessels will all ..
- July 6, 2021
Hapag-Lloyd orders six additional LNG dual-fuel ULCVs
Hapag-Lloyd has commissioned South Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) to build six ultra large container vessels (ULCVs), each with a capac ..
- July 26, 2021
DP World, Rosatom to develop Russia’s Northern Transit Corridor to accommodate increased Asia-Europe cargo
UAE-based DP World and Russian state-owned nuclear energy company Rosatom have entered into an agreement to develop Russia’s Northern Transit Corridor as a sustaina ..
- July 16, 2021
Volkswagen to charter four more LNG-fueled car carriers
Volkswagen Group Logistics has entered into separate agreements with shipowners Wallenius Marine and SFL Corporation for the charters of four newbuilding car carriers pow ..
- July 16, 2021
Portuguese firm to build cargo terminal at Senegal’s Bargny-Sendou Port
Portuguese marine construction company Etermar has been selected to design and build a new bulk cargo handling terminal at the Port of Bargny-Sendou in Senegal. The new f ..
- July 26, 2021
DP World, Rosatom to develop Russia’s Northern Transit Corridor to accommodate increased Asia-Europe cargo
UAE-based DP World and Russian state-owned nuclear energy company Rosatom have entered into an agreement to develop Russia’s Northern Transit Corridor as a sustaina ..
- PASSENGER VESSEL WEEKJuly 8, 2021
Philippines to open new cruise port in Ilocos Sur province
The Philippine Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) have completed an expansion project that will enable the Port of Salomague in ..
- June 24, 2021
Construction nearly complete on VG Port’s Naantali cargo terminal
Construction is nearly completed on a new cargo handling and storage area to be operated by Finnish port company VG Port in Luonnonmaa, Naantali. Two berths have been bui ..
- July 16, 2021
REMINISCENCES | The entertainment officer
The master’s instructions were short and to the point as he briefed his new fourth mate who had just joined, the ink on his second mate’s certificate scarcely dry. Af ..
- NAVAL ARCHITECTURE WEEKJune 25, 2021
VESSEL REVIEW | Suraxani – Azerbaijani tanker rebuilt as floating museum and restaurant
Russia’s Marine Engineering Bureau (MEB) recently completed a unique vessel design project wherein a decommissioned oil tanker has been repurposed into a floating m ..
- February 10, 2021
VESSEL REVIEW | SCF Timmerman – Third in series of new low-emission Atlanticmax LNG carriers for Russia’s SCF
Russian shipowner SCF Group recently took delivery of the third ship in a series of new Atlanticmax LNG carriers built by South Korean shipyard Hyundai Samho Heavy Indust ..
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