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COASTERS: Top Gunness on the Trent

The amount of shipping visiting up-river quays and ports has increased in the early months of 2011. The river Trent has seen an increase...

GENERAL CARGO: More scrap metal cargoes

The price of scrap metal has risen in the early months of 2011. This has resulted in many ports within the UK seeing increased...

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/ ...

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...
Ships Montly - January 2024
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