The CMA CGM Group has taken delivery of a new container vessel built by Hyundai Mipo Dockyard in South Korea. CMA CGM Mermaid is the first in a new series of ten containerships powered by LNG and featuring a new hull design developed to improve energy efficiency and reduce environmental impact. The...
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AWARDS 2023 | Best Medium Patrol Boat – Balchik – Baltic Workboats
Best Medium Patrol Boat – Balchik – Baltic Workboats At 45 metres LOA, this patrol boat is nearing the maximum size of boats built, to date, by the fast growing Estonian aluminium boat designer and builder Baltic Workboats (BWB). Much of BWB’s production is for export and, as it was built for the...
International consortium to support terminal construction in Egypt’s Damietta Port
A consortium of international institutions is supporting the development of a second container terminal in Damietta Port in Egypt, thus tripling the port’s container capacity. Damietta Alliance Container Terminals is a special purpose vehicle (SPV) established by Eurogate, Contship Italia, Hapag Lloyd, the MELC Group and Ship and C.R.E.W. to design, develop, operate, and maintain […]
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COLUMN | Maritime consequences of the Israel-Hamas conflict [Naval Gazing]
With its complex transnational ownership and operating structures, international merchant shipping has long had considerable potential as a terrorist target. The seizure or damaging of a merchant vessel can spawn a great deal of divisive international security and financial mayhem, as well as being...
VESSEL REVIEW | Kyrenia – Patrol boat trio enters service with Cyprus’ marine police
Tehnomont Shipyard in Croatia recently handed over three new patrol vessels in a series to the Cyprus Port and Marine Police. Kyrenia, Kantara, and Pentadaktylos were built by Tehnomont to a design developed by UK naval architecture firm Camarc in compliance to Bureau Veritas class rules. Each has...
VESSEL REVIEW | BC Corse – Hybrid buoy tender for French Mediterranean waters
Merre Shipyard in France has handed over a new coastal buoy tender to local operator Armement des Phares et Balises. Designed by compatriot naval architecture firm Frederic Neuman, BC Corse was built to replace the operator’s earlier, larger buoy tender, which was heavily damaged in a grounding...
BOOK REVIEW | Dead Man’s Chest & Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology
These two specialised but nevertheless very interesting books should be read successively, as their subjects, but not their foci, are closely related and their ideas are closely linked. Maritime archaeology really only came of age after the Second World War, but it has since become a very popular...
COLUMN | Explaining Tidewater’s dip as AD Ports buys ENAV Radiance for US$200 million [Offshore Accounts]
Hot on the back of Britoil buying Vroon’s fleet of 30 offshore support vessels (OSVs), and Golden Energy Offshore taking another five from the Dutch owner, last week’s big offshore deal was Abu Dhabi’s AD Ports buying the “eastern fleet” of ENAV. AD Ports has bought these ten vessels trading in...
VESSEL REVIEW | Alice Cosulich – Italian operator adds LNG bunkering ship to fleet
Italian conglomerate the Fratelli Cosulich Group recently took delivery of its first LNG bunkering vessel, which was built by Chinese shipyard Nantong CIMC Sinopacific Offshore and Engineering (CIMC SOE). Alice Cosulich is the first in a new series of two small-scale LNG bunkering vessels designed...
VESSEL REVIEW | Marie-Therese – Shuttle ferry to serve French Mediterranean islands
French shipbuilder Transmetal Industrie has delivered a new passenger and freight ferry to Les Iles Paul Ricard, a vessel operating company based on France’s Mediterranean coast. Designed by local naval architecture firm Mer et Design, the vessel has been named Marie-Therese after the wife of Les Iles Paul Ricard’s namesake, French industrialist and property developer […]
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