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LOCH LOMOND: Good support for Maid

The £3.3 million appeal to restore the paddle steamer Maid of the Loch to service on Loch Lomond attracted donations of more than £102,000...

TUI Cruises: Newbuilding floated out

The first newbuilding for the TUI/Royal Caribbean joint venture TUI Cruises was floated out at the STX shipyard in Turku, Finland on 8 November...

Foreign aid: Typhoon aid mission

HMS Illustrious has delivered 500 tonnes of UK aid to areas of the Philippines devastated by Typhoon Haiyan. The helicopter carrier, with seven helicopters...

CONTAINER SHIPS: Maersk orders tankers

Denmark’s Maersk Tankers, which sold its large gas carriers to the BW Group in May 2013, and its small gas tankers to Navigator Gas...

SUPPLY VESSEL: LNG-powered success

In November 2013 international energy company Statoil extended the time charter with Eidesvik Offshore of Norway of the LNG-powered supply vessel Viking Queen. This...

New ferry: Christened with a coconut

Traditional champagne was eschewed for a coconut when the Dredging Corporation of India’s DCI Dredge XXI was launched by Holland’s IHC Merwede yard last...
Ships Montly - January 2024
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