The Canadian Coast Guard officially welcomed the medium icebreaker CCGS Vincent Massey to its fleet at a dedication to service ceremony in Quebec City in September 2023. The ship is the third of three medium icebreakers that Canada purchased secondhand…
The first of Damen’s innovative new, all-electric RSD-E Tug 2513 class has been nominated for the 2023 Ship of the Year Award (formerly known as the KNVTS Ship of the Year Award). Sparky is the result of six years of…
Paraguayan shipowner and operator Girona S.A. – Rio Sur Transporte y Logistica has contracted Dutch inland shipping construction yard Concordia Damen to build a CDS4115 Shallow Draft 5,400hp River Pusher to expand its fleet. The family-owned company is one of…
Furetank and Algoma Central Corporation have expanded the FureBear joint venture with two additional vessel orders, bringing the total newbuild order to ten intermediate product tankers to trade in Northern Europe. The two companies continue to position FureBear and increase…
On 12 September 2023 Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania held a launching ceremony for PNS Hunain, one of a series of Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV) 2600 that Damen is constructing for the Pakistan Navy. Damen was awarded the contract to…
The expedition cruise ship Ocean Explorer, with 206 people on board, was grounded in a remote Greenland fjord after initial attempts to refloat the vessel failed. The ship ran aground on 12 September in Alpefjord, part of Northeast Greenland National…
On Wednesday 13 September 2023 Waverley, the world’s last seagoing paddle steamer, made her first visit to Shoreham Port for her inaugural cruise from the West Sussex harbour. She was berthed in the outer layby, while her 620 passengers were…
In Rotterdam on 9 September 2023 HRH Princess Alexia of the Netherlands performed the christening ceremony for Van Oord’s new hopper dredger Vox Alexia. The ceremony took place at the Wilhelminakade quay in Rotterdam’s city centre, where the vessel was…
Record summer for maritime travel: Local tourism popular on both sides of Baltic Sea, South Koreans discover Nordic region Between June and August, nearly 1.8 million passengers sailed on Viking Line’s vessels, and many departures during the summer holiday season…
There was a rare and wonderful sight on southern coastal waters on Sunday 3 September and Monday 4 September when two heritage steamships, both built in Scotland and now part of the National Historic Fleet, met up off Bournemouth and…
