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New hull form: Negative stem hull

The 23,249dwt Ice Class IA multi-purpose vessel Reestborg, completed last year by Ferus Smit for Wagenborg, illustrates one of the many new hull forms...

Passenger ship: Unscheduled diversion

The small Norwegian passenger ship Gann made her first visit to Wearside after an unscheduled diversion. Used as a winter training school for sea...

OCEAN TOWAGE: Boskalis takes Fairmount

Holland’s Royal Boskalis Westminster NV has reached an agreement to acquire Fairmount Marine and its affiliate, Fairmount Ocean Towage Company, from Louis Dreyfus Armateurs...

Ice breaker: End of an era for icebreaker

Quark Expeditions, leader in polar adventures, has announced that its ice-beaker 50 Years of Victory will retire as an expedition vessel after the 2015...

Shipbuilding: Stocking up on the basics

Like many of the world’s shipbuilders, the Damen Group of the Netherlands often has the basic hulls of its vessels built overseas and then...

Newbuild: Methanol as ship fuel

The world’s largest methanol supplier, Canada’s Methanex Corporation, through its Waterfront Shipping subsidiary, has reached an agreement with Japan’s Mitsui OSK Lines, Norway’s Westfal-Larsen...
Ships Montly - January 2024
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