Indian shipbreakers are paying relatively high prices for older tonnage as Bangladeshi breakers find themselves caught up in court cases and Pakistani breakers keep a low profile in the marketplace. The 1979-built Haj Khalil (ex-Ahmos), a general cargo vessel built…
The Dubai-based United Arab Shipping Company has taken delivery of its first 13,500TEU capacity container vessels. Umm Salal, named after the municipality in the state Qatar, was handed over during a ceremony at the Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje,…
The newly-built container vessel Independent Voyager (39,268dwt, below) made her maiden call at Liverpool on 4 June, having left Antwerp three days earlier. On arrival in Liverpool she was paraded past Pier Head with tugs saluting her with water cannon…
On 10 June a dual naming ceremony for two new container vessels was held at the Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) Ulsan Shipyard in South Korea. The vessels, COSCO Glory and COSCO Pride, are the first of a new series of…
Despite the global recession and its impact on ship employment, the bulker Cardinal is still finding full employment on the bulk tramp trades. In June she loaded a cargo at Corpus Christi in the USA destined for Gabes in Tunisia.…
The Maersk group has announced plans to sell its LNG division, which operates eight liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, stating that it wishes to ‘reallocate resources to other parts of the group’. The Maersk LNG fleet has suffered through a…
On 16 May at about 1130 the car carrier Nordic Spirit broke her moorings on the Tyne in high winds while docked at Northumberland Quay in North Shields, and began to drift across the river towards South Shields. Gale-force winds…
Turkey plans to build a canal from the Black Sea to the Marmara Sea, turning Istanbul into two peninsulas and an island in order to divert shipping from the Bosporus. The Istanbul canal will be up to 50km long, 150m…
Whilst most of the United Kingdom was enjoying an extra bank holiday on 29 April, maritime activity on the RMS service to and from the port of Goole was in full operation. On the afternoon tide the Wiebke D (1980/1,441gt)…
MSC’s Lion service connecting Felixstowe with the important Asian market commenced in May to provide one of the fastest available eastbound connections for UK exporters. The service commenced with a call from MSC Bruxelles (2005/107,849gt) in May, but from July…
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