• PASSENGER VESSEL WEEK
    VESSEL REVIEW | Sunflower Kurenai – LNG-fuelled ferry to serve Japan’s inter-island routes

    VESSEL REVIEW | Sunflower Kurenai – LNG-fuelled ferry to serve Japan’s inter-island routes

  • PASSENGER VESSEL WEEK
    VESSEL REVIEW | Ma Lisha – Indian-built ocean-going ferry for Guyanese government

    VESSEL REVIEW | Ma Lisha – Indian-built ocean-going ferry for Guyanese government

  • PASSENGER VESSEL WEEK
    VESSEL REVIEW | Pearl of Siam – Fast VIP tour boat delivered to Thai owner

    VESSEL REVIEW | Pearl of Siam – Fast VIP tour boat delivered to Thai owner

  • PASSENGER VESSEL WEEK
    VESSEL REVIEW | Frey – First of two fast hybrid catamarans for Norled

    VESSEL REVIEW | Frey – First of two fast hybrid catamarans for Norled

  • PASSENGER VESSEL WEEK
    FEATURE | Supatra Boats: a long history and a strong future

    FEATURE | Supatra Boats: a long history and a strong future

  • VESSEL REVIEW | Sunflower Kurenai – LNG-fuelled ferry to serve Japan’s inter-island routes
  • VESSEL REVIEW | Ma Lisha – Indian-built ocean-going ferry for Guyanese government
  • VESSEL REVIEW | Pearl of Siam – Fast VIP tour boat delivered to Thai owner
  • VESSEL REVIEW | Frey – First of two fast hybrid catamarans for Norled
  • FEATURE | Supatra Boats: a long history and a strong future
BAIRD MARITIME AWARDS
AWARDS 2022 | Best Landing Craft – Offshore – Ros Aine – Chartwell Marine

AWARDS 2022 | Best Landing Craft – Offshore – Ros Aine – Chartwell Marine

By Baird Maritime

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?

OPINION | How will Australia pay for the AUKUS submarines?

By Matthew Newman

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 ..

BAIRD MARITIME AWARDS
AWARDS 2022 | Best Firefighting Tug – Safi-14 – Robert Allan Ltd

AWARDS 2022 | Best Firefighting Tug – Safi-14 – Robert Allan Ltd

By Baird Maritime

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 ..

PASSENGER VESSEL WEEK
FEATURE | Supatra Boats: a long history and a strong future

FEATURE | Supatra Boats: a long history and a strong future

By Alan Haig-Brown

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 ..

BAIRD MARITIME AWARDS
AWARDS 2022 | Best Davit Supplier – Vestdavit

AWARDS 2022 | Best Davit Supplier – Vestdavit

By Baird Maritime

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 ..

PASSENGER VESSEL WEEK
COLUMN | A load of bollards: the US Coast Guard (and others) should get serious on testing mooring equipment! [Offshore Accounts]

COLUMN | A load of bollards: the US Coast Guard (and others) should get serious on testing mooring equipment! [Offshore Accounts]

By Hieronymus Bosch

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

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 ..