Ships Monthly November 2020 issue is out now, with a main feature on the Royal Navy’s well known aircraft carriers HMS Illustrious. To get your copy, visit the Kelsey website. WATERFRONT – In the news, details of Celebrity Apex arriving…
Damen Shipyards Group has been awarded a contract to design a new Offshore Terminal Tug for Edison Chouest Offshore. Chouest will initially build two ASD Tugs 5016 at its Louisiana shipyard. The contract builds upon the well-established partnership between the…
Scotline Marine Holdings Ltd announce on 2 October 2020 that, in partnership with Royal Bodewes, they have exercised their option for a fourth newbuild 4800 DWAT Bodewes Trader to be named Scot Isles and launched in Q3 2021. Currently Scot…
Ships Monthly Oct 2020 The latest issue of Ships Monthly is out now. Subscribe here: https://shop.kelsey.co.uk/subscription/SMO LATEST NEWS Waterfront – CalMac upgrades ferries during dry docking, Stena Line adds freight capacity at Heysham and Belfast, new Australian icebreaker Nuyina…
Some 400,000 seafarers from across the globe are now stranded on ships, continuing to work but unable to be relieved, in a deepening crew change crisis which threatens trade and maritime safety. During a high-level event on the margins of…
On 11 September 2020 Damen Shipyards Group launched a Marine Aggregate Dredger (MAD) 3500 at its Galati yard in Romania. Damen is building the MAD for UK-based Hanson. The company will use the vessel to conduct offshore aggregate extraction in…
Teesside logisitics business AV Dawson has named its new port facility Port of Middlesbrough, bringing a name back to the area from over 100 years ago AV Dawson has amalgamated several parts of its Middlesbrough-based port and logistics operations to…
On 14 August 2020 the naming ceremony was held at Damen Shipyards Gorinchem for Peter Wessels. The new Damen ASD Tug 2810 was handed over to Neue Schleppdampfschiffsreederei Louis Meyer GmbH & Co KG (Louis Meyer), which is based in Hamburg.…
On 8 September 2020 DP World’s Jebel Ali Port welcomed HMM Gdansk, one of the world’s largest container vessels, which was on the return leg of her maiden international voyage between the Far East and Europe. Jebel Ali is the…
The Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass) has commended Kanagawa Dockyard Co Ltd, Kobe, Japan on the successful delivery of tug, Dolphin NO. 29 on 19 August 2020. This is the fourth, in a series of 13 tugs, built for Adani…