Bookings begin with fleet replacements on the way

WORLD EVENTS HIT SHIPP ING

Isle of Mull making her first ever visit

What next for Westward Ho?

SMALL FERRY

PIL joins World Shipping Council

CONTAINER INDUSTRY

Farewell to Pride of Bris tol

RN FLEET TENDER

Historic tug moves to Medway

ST CHALLENGE

Fresh out of her dry-docking

SHIELDHALL

Finnlines’ hybrid Finnecos arrives from China

FINNLINES

Hydrogen power

SEASHUTTLE

Orkney vessel in Belfast for repairs

PENTLAND FERRIES

Cape Don set to be restored

MAINTENANCE SHIP

NEWS IN BRIEF

SERVICE AGREEMENT MacGregor, part of Cargotech, has signed

HMM reveals ambitious plans for growth

COMPANY NEWS

Methanol-ready

HYBRID CSOVs

Expansion for DFDS and Stena

FERRY EXPANSION

Scotland’s first direct container link with China

CONTAINER ROUTE

Ammoniafuelled

GAS CARRIER

Ex-Channel veteran continues service in Greek waters

SEAJETS

NEWS IN BRIEF

NAMES REVEALED The two 47,394gr double-ender ferries for

Two E-Flexers for Baltic route

STENA LINE

Mediterranean ferry link back after 21 years

DP WORLD

FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . . FERRIES IN THE NEWS . . .

MANANNAN The Isle of Man Steam Packet is

New managing director appointed

PENTLAND FERRIES

Ferry costs triple in ten years

CALMAC

Another golden oldie goes to the breakers

MANO CRUISES

First Astor scrapped after 40-year career

SAGA CRUISES

Residential

VICTORIA CRUISES LINE

Arcadia’s crewing problems overcome

P&O CRUISES

Impact of Covid still being felt

INDUSTRY NEWS

To the Arctic

SWAN HELLENIC

NEWS IN BRIEF

AIDA CRUISES One of the pair of Japanese-built

NEWS IN BRIEF

ROK NAVY The future of the South Korean

HMS Echo ends her RN service

ROYAL NAVY

Hometown naming

US NAVY

RUSSIAN NAVY

Special delivery

Taiwan plays the imitation game

TAIWANESE NAVY

Quorn to get back in the hunt

ROYAL NAVY

Pacific problems for partners

PACIFIC ISLANDS

NEWS IN BRIEF

BP-CONTROLLED TANKERS Greece’s Angelicoussis Group has acquired eight

X-Press goes for Dutch emission reduction devices

FEEDER SHIPS

World’s largest container ship

NEWBUILD

TRF enters into Hafnia’s Chemical Pool of vessels

CHEMICAL TANKERS

Methanol-powered sisterships

MR TANKERS

Berge Bulk to test the wind

BULKERS

Another short sea trader

CARGO SHIPS

Four Aframax for Aegean

NEW TANKERS

SUPERFAST

THE LAST HALF DOZEN

PICTORIAL

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CHARTROOM

SHIPS MAIL SOME SIGNIFICANT TRAGEDIES AT SEA RECALLED

ROYAL CLIPPER

FLAGSHIP OF THE STAR CLIPPERS FLEET

THE WORLD’S LARGEST WOODEN SHIP

Steve Barron traces the career of Solano, a train ferry built in America in 1879, which holds the title of largest wooden ship ever built.

‘BIG FAST SHIP’ ACROSS THE MED

GNV’s cruise ferry Excelsior operates the 51-hour voyage from Genoa in Italy across the Mediterranean to Morocco. Tom Rinaldi went aboard to experience one of the longest regular ferry crossings in Europe.

REMEMBERING TODD PACIFIC SHIPYARD

Shipbuilding has never been an industry for the faint-hearted and many businesses fail. An example of this struggle is the American Todd Pacific Shipyard, as Patrick Boniface outlines.

Maritime MOSAIC

Euro harbour tours

CARGO CLASSICS ON THE KIEL CANAL

Photographs taken by the late Gordon Turner show a selection of classic cargo ships using the Kiel Canal from the 1970s, with details supplied by Jim Shaw.

SIX DREADFUL MONTHS

The Royal Navy’s wartime low point from 1941 to 1942

SHIPS OF THE SOVIET UNION

PART 4