Ships Monthly

Ships Monthly is the world’s number one shipping magazine and Britain’s best-selling monthly magazine for ship lovers. Read by seafarers and enthusiasts all over the world, it contains a unique mix of shipping and maritime news, broken down by ship type, with sections focussing on ferries, cruise ships, warships, preserved vessels, tugs and cargo ships. The features, written by experts in their field, cover ships old and new, historic shipping companies and their vessels, modern cruise liners and passenger ferries, warships and naval vessels, profiles of docks and harbours in the UK and around the world, and personal accounts of voyages on ships round the world. Every issue contains an interview with the captain of a ship. In addition to the latest happenings in the shipping industry, the Ship of the Month feature goes behind the scenes on a significant ship to give readers an all-round insight into the world of ships and shipping.

Ships Monthly

WHAT NEXT FOR P&O FERRIES?

Contributors this month

Golden Ocean expands bulk fleet

NEWS IN BRIEF

Greek fleet world’s largest

Taken over

Attica Group swallows ANEK Lines

Japanese icebreaker

Fremantle Highway catches fire

Freight ro-ro trio chartered

Commercial nuclear

Cargill and WindWings set sail

More delays for CalMac ferries

Houston’s busiest month

P&O Ferries to close Dublin-Liverpool

Low water

Battery-powered boxboat

LNG for pollution control

Nordica proves flexible

NEWS IN BRIEF

Manxman enters service from Douglas to Heysham

FERRIES IN THE NEWS … FERRIES IN THE NEWS … FERRIES IN THE NEWS … FERRIES IN THE NEWS …

Pioneer hit by technical problems

Hybrid craft for the Thames

Hull 802 name ballot announced

Incat 045 on the move again

All change as Crystal is retired

NEWS IN BRIEF

Second yacht in service

Full strength

End of the road for a veteran after 57 years?

Viva the second Leonardo

Britannia breaks moorings

Bulk buy saves US money

NEWS IN BRIEF

Poland progresses frigate project

Devastating drones

Hypersonic hot shots

Bulgaria’s new brave world

Improvements on the Horizon

Concordia Maritime sells its fleet

NEWS IN BRIEF

Eitzen takes on Blystad gas fleet

Lost rudder

Crude oil transferred from decaying FSO

Rotor sails

Hapag-Lloyd in the running

LNG-powered tankers ordered

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OUT WITH THE OLD… IN WITH THE NEW • George Holland bids farewell to the stalwart Stena Europe and welcomes Stena Nordica, which has taken over on the historic Irish Sea route from Fishguard to Rosslare.

NORDICA TIMELINE

VIEW from the BRIDGE • David Potts is master on board Stena Nordica and spoke to Nicholas Leach about his career and the ship, new to the Fishguard-Rosslare route.

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PROFILE MOROCCO SUN PRINCESS IN THE SUN • Matt Davies profiles the former Galloway Princess, a one-time Sealink ship, which is sailing today across the Strait of Gibraltar as Morocco Sun.

ON BOARD MOROCCO SUN IN ALGECIRAS

MARITIME MOSAIC LPG TANKERS AT BELFAST • Belfast Harbour is the major maritime gateway for Northern Ireland, and, among many other cargo vessels, hosts numerous gas carriers bringing propane from terminals all round the world. Roy Thompson’s photographs show some of these vessels traversing the port’s Victoria Channel. The port’s 2,000-acre estate makes up a fifth of Belfast City, and it has 8km of operational quays and wharves.

MSC SEASCAPE • Allan E. Jordan assesses the new cruise ship MSC...