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SHIPPING CASUALTIES: Casualties of the hard winter

Mid-November 2010 saw the winter start to take its toll on coastal shipping. Arklow Raider was leaving the Irish port of Drogheda on 16...

SHIP COLLISION: Collision in the North Sea

The Chinese 20,763gt cargo ship Cleantec (2009) and the German container ship Frisia Rotterdam (2004/25,406gt) collided in the North Sea at the north-western tip...

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...

CONTAINER SHIP: MSC increase market share

The container shipping market continues to show signs of growth after a couple of difficult years. The 20 largest container lines expanded their fleet...
Ships Montly - January 2024
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