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COASTERS: Worrying time for upriver UK ports

Over recent years the size of vessels operating between the UK and the near continent has increased. This, together with the fact that many...

CARGO HANDLING: Offloading the old way

Before containerisation, vessels were equipped with cargo-handling cranes to load and discharge their cargoes. As dock cranes or mobile cranes became more widespread, so...

SERVICE SHIP: Wind farm ‘mother ship’

The booming offshore wind energy sector is continuing to generate new construction as well as new servicing vessel designs. One of the latest is...

VEHICLE CARRIERS: Car carrier drives forward

Last year will go down as a bad one for the car carrier shipping sector. Vessels were either laid up or sold to reduce...

CONTAINER SHIP: Largest container ship to visit Brixham

A rare caller at Brixham on 20 October 2010 was the container ship CMA CGM Laperouse. Built in 2010, the 157,092dwt Explorer class vessel...

REEFER: World’s biggest reefer ship

The ship with the biggest reefer capacity currently, 1,600 reefer plugs, docked in South Africa for the first time in early December 2010. The...
Ships Montly - January 2024
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