Earlier this month, as the world’s attention was focused on the horror unfolding in Israel and Gaza, it was easy to miss the news that two subsea telecommunications cables and a gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea had been damaged. On the night of October 7, the 77-kilometre Balticconnector gas pipeline...
These are febrile times and the recent shutdown of a gas pipeline across the Gulf of Finland, along with the apparent severing of at least one communication cable, has focused attention on geo-politics in this part of the world. Was this a reprise of the earlier attack by an unknown agency upon the...
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Russia’s Sredne-Nevsky Shipbuilding Plant has handed over a new fast catamaran ferry ordered by local customer State Transport Leasing Company (STLC) for operation by Saint Petersburg-based Neva Travel Company. Like its Project 04580 sister vessels, Fort Pyetr I (“Fort Peter I”) was designed by local engineering company Forss Technology in compliance to Russian Maritime Register […]
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Deliveries include inter-island ferries for the German North Sea, an LNG-fuelled cruise ship for a Monaco-based operator, and two coastal cruise ships for a Norwegian own ..
Russia’s Sredne-Nesvky Shipbuilding Plant has handed over the first vessel in a series of six catamaran ferries ordered by local customer State Transport Leasing Compan ..
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Recent deliveries include a Norwegian netting boat and catamaran workboats for two operators in New Zealand. Construction continues on six new distant-water trawlers for ..
Estonian shipowner Tallink Grupp has taken delivery of a new Ro-Pax ferry from Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) of Finland. Built to Finnish-Swedish Ice Class 1A requirem ..
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Hundreds of ‘ghost tankers’ in Gulf of Finland pose risk for maritime safety, states a Euractiv news source.
Unidentified tankers are shipping oilUnidentified tankers are shipping oil through the Gulf of Finland after the G7 implemented a $60 price cap on Russian oil and the EU and UK imposed a ban on the seaborne import of Russian crude oil forcing Moscow to increase long-distance shipments using questionable vessels.
The arrival of hundreds of tankers in poor condition...
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Construction begins on a new LNG-fuelled cruise ship as orders are placed for sea/river cruise ships for Russia, an ice-capable expedition ship for a US operator, and two ..
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Russia’s Admiralty Shipyards has begun conducting builder’s sea trials of a new Project 00903 ice-resistant research vessel ordered by the country’s Fed ..
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