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PORT NEWS: Rosyth Dockyard’s Goliath crane arrives

On 3 March the UK’s largest crane passed under the Forth bridges in Scotland after a 14,000-nautical-mile sea voyage, bound for Babcock’s Rosyth Dockyard...

HEAVYLIFT: Restructuring for Beluga

The blue-hulled ships of Germany’s heavylift specialist Beluga Shipping are continuing in employment, but the company is undergoing a substantial financial restructuring after its...

Stena Line welcomes Irish clearance

The Irish Competition Authority’s decision to clear Stena Line's proposed acquisition of DFDS passenger and freight services and routes between Belfast/ ...

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...
Ships Montly - January 2024
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