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CONTAINER SHIPS: Ready to join the 18,000teu club

Two more shipping lines are to follow Denmark’s Maersk Line and join the 18,000TEU owners’ club. At the end of April China Shipping Container...

Port news: Serving the Emerald Isle

In January it was announced that MSC had launched a new Atlantic Arc container feeder service based on Le Havre, serving Liverpool, Greenock and...

OLD TUG: Historic tug sinks

In April the vintage tug HMRT Golden Cross got into difficulty during high winds, which caused her moorings to break. The 58-year-old vessel drifted...

AKER ICEbreaker: Oblique icebreaker design

Finland’s Aker Arctic is following up its ARC 100 oblique icebreaker design (see SM, Feb), which is currently under construction for employment in the...

IRISH SEA: Channel veteran goes for scrap

A 50-year career, starting with English Channel service as Townsend Ferries’ first purpose-built car ferry Free Enterprise in April 1962, is ending at Turkish...

NCL: First and only call

NCL’s latest ship, Norwegian Breakaway (see SM, July), made her first and, for the foreseeable future, only call in Southampton in April, arriving at...
Ships Montly - January 2024
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