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About Ships Monthly Ships Monthly magazine is the world’s number one shipping magazine and Britain’s best-selling monthly magazine for ship lovers. Read by seafarers and enthusiasts all over the world, it contains a unique mix of shipping and maritime news, broken down by ship type, with sections focussing on ferries, cruise ships, warships, preserved vessels, tugs and cargo ships. The features, written by experts in their field, cover ships old and new, historic shipping companies and their vessels, modern cruise liners and passenger ferries, warships and naval vessels, profiles of docks and harbours in the UK and around the world, and personal accounts of voyages on ships round the world. Every issue contains an interview with the captain of a ship. In addition to the latest happenings in the shipping industry, the Ship of the Month feature goes behind the scenes on a significant ship to give readers an all-round insight into the world of ships and shipping.

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Captain Bengt Viknander

Captain Bengt Viknander, from Sweden, has been captain on Stena Danica for the past two years. The ship, however, has been on the Frederikshavn-Gothenburg...

COMPANY NEWS: Tough going for P&O Ferries

Fierce competition and increasing operating costs are making life tough for P&O Ferries on the English Channel, North Sea and Irish Sea, annual reports...

PHILLIPPINES: Typhoon hits shipping

Typhoon Haiyan, which swept through the Philippines in mid-November 2013, left a number of ships stranded or damaged, including many coasters and fishing vessels....

New ro-ro reefer design

Denmark’s Knud E. Hansen, in close cooperation with Switzerland’s Reefer Intel and Sweden’s Stena RoRo, has developed a new ro-ro reefer vessel design that...

Preserved paddler: Medway Queen returns to the water

On 24 October 2013 the partially-restored paddler Medway Queen was towed out of the dry dock in Bristol, where restoration work has been ongoing,...

The end for British shipbuilding?

JANUARY 2014 ISSUE The announcement that shipbuilding in Portsmouth is to cease with the closure of the BAE yard, and facilities on the Clyde are...