While the UK government is scrapping its emergency tug service, China’s Guangzhou Huangpu Shipbuilding Company, part of the state-controlled China State Shipbuilding Corporation, is...
Financial problems prompted Spanish operator Happy Cruises to cease operations abruptly on 24 September. Established as Quail Cruises in 2008 as a joint venture...
International petroleum tanker owner-operator AET has taken delivery of the world’s first purpose-built lightering support vessel (LSV). The new craft, designed by Elliott Bay...
On 5 October the Liberian-flagged cargo ship Rena (1990/37,209gt, ex-Andaman Sea, Zim America, pictured) struck the Astrolabe Reef off New Zealand at full speed...
An engine-room fire aboard the Hurtigruten ship Nordlys (1994/11,204gt) left two dead and nine injured shortly after 0900 on 15 September, as the vessel...
