DECARBONISING SHIPPING

To help reduce emissions sails can be fitted,

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWBUILD Bibby Marine, UK-based operator of Service Operation

Rebuilt Stena Foreteller returns

RO-RO REBUILD

Cutting-edge technology

NEWBUILD

CMA CGM expands in US

CONTAINER SHIP

Freight route set to be withdrawn

CHANNEL ROUTE

New cement ship Tamarack

NEWBUILD

Fast ferry for South Korea

NEW FERRY

Fowey’s fond farewell to Trent

LIFEBOAT LEAVES

Cable layer hull fitted out

NEWBUILD

Retracing Darwin’s voyage

OOSTERSCHELDE

Hamburg port plans billion-euro upgrade

PORT NEWS

Washington goes hybrid

US FERRY LINK

More expansion brings fleet to eight

OCEANIA CRUISES

Three more in Genoa

EXPLORA JOURNEYS

Strikes disrupt Star’s delivery

ROYAL CARIBBEAN

NEWS IN BRIEF

AIDA CRUISES Aida has cancelled its 2025-26 season

NEWS IN BRIEF

CAL MAC BBC Scotland has reported that the

Channel rivalry hots up in the courts

ROUTE RIVALS

Fill the gap

CLdN

Stena Line’s strategic reshuffle

STENA LINE

British veteran still at work

ECKERÖ LINE

Electrification of the Kattegat

NORDIC FERRY

Another E-Flexer almost ready

NEWBUILD

India receives final Russian-built warship

INDIAN NAVY

Poland’s new eyes and ears

POLISH NAVY

Decisive action over delays

US COAST GUARD

Kaput Kuznetzov’s downward spiral

RUSSIAN NAVY

Covid hangover

US NAVY

Castle moves from blue to white

ROYAL NAVY

NEWS IN BRIEF

ROYAL NAVY After 15 years of service,

NEWS IN BRIEF

RECORD BREAKER The container ship Ever Atop,

Houthis sink bulkers in Red Sea

INCIDENT

Detained boxships freed in Malta

CONTAINER SHIPS

Wind power for tankers

NEWBUILD

CMA CGM hits four million TEU

CONTAINER COMPANY

Eimskip sells Lagarfoss

FEEDER CONTAINER

Yang Ming’s new boxboats

NEWBUILD

Van Oord orders next-gen

NEWBUILD

THE TALL SHIPS RETURN TO ABERDEEN

SAIL RACES

PICTORIAL

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THE RACEHORE CLASS FERRIES

The Racehorse class roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) passenger and vehicle ferries were built for Merchant Ferries in the late 1990s and were initially used on a variety of UK ferry routes. They have since enjoyed varied careers with different operators round the world.

BRAVE MERCHANT

Brave Merchant was the first ferry of the

DAWN MERCHANT

Dawn Merchant in her original Norfolkline guise, operating

MIDNIGHT MERCHANT

Midnight Merchant departing Dover during her stint on

NORTHERN MERCHANT

Northern Merchant at Dover in May 2005.

‘LUSTY’ REMEMBERED HMS ILLUSTRIOUS

HMS Illustrious, or ‘Lusty’ as she was known to her crew, commissioned in March 1983. Her career ended in August 2014 when she formally left Royal Navy service, and she sailed from her Portsmouth homeport for the last time in December 2016, destined for the breakers. James Hendrie looks back at the career of one of the RN’s finest ships.

MSC TAKE ON THE WORLD

MSC WORLD EUROPA and MSC WORLD AMERICA

MARITIME MOSAIC

WIND FARM WORKERS

SUNDERLAND-BUILT

A NAVAL ARCHITECT’S VIEW

TRAMP OWNER EXTRAORDINAIRE

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WALTER RUNCIMAN

THE CANADIAN COAST GUARD

‘SAFETY FIRST, SERVICE ALWAYS’

SHIPSPOTTING

CONTAINER SHIPS

CHARTROOM

SHIPS MAIL

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

George Holland talks to Captain Alan Robertson about his career and working on the cruise ferry Stena Britannica, which operates between Harwich and the Hook.

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