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

BAD FOR THE CRUISE INDUSTRY?

Contributors this month

Icon of the seas near completion

Historic Teal takes time out

China’s largest

NEWS IN BRIEF

Large cable-layer for Jan De Nul

Going Green

Milestone for Kirkcaldy

Boskalis orders new dredger

New for Japan

Banned from European waters

Youth With A Mission

Preservation pioneer remembered

Fincantieri invests in Ancona yard

Plans for two

Odfjell expands tanker fleet

Kenya’s first domestically built

New ferries spotlight

Belfast debut

FERRIES IN THE NEWS…

NEWS IN BRIEF

On and off service on the Solent

Trio set to join Polish fleets

Change of flag for Cinderella

Uig Harbour closed for upgrade

Panorama goes for power repairs

Another going for scrap?

Project falters

NEWS IN BRIEF

Ten electrics

Future fuels for Finland

Self-discharge

Hybrid wind energy ships

Liquid gas on the move

Ice-strengthened corvettes on the way

New CG cutter splashes in

AUKUS timetable

NEWS IN BRIEF

Emirati expansion continues

Accident-prone sub to go

CAMM coming to corvettes

Knutsen’s latest carrier

Torm acquires eight tankers in joint venture

Manisa Chartering orders four more from China

NEWS IN BRIEF

Stolt starts fleet renewal programme

Expansion

Ore carrier gets rotor sails

Misje Rederi goes for hybrids

Tug of the year

Back to work from refit

Largest methanol tugs

‘Sparky’ earns its keep

American tug to celebrate 80 years

Push’n’pull

Mersey tug at home in Greece

New in-line tug design

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR THE SHIPPING ENTHUSIAST

STEFAN BATORY AND POLISH OCEAN LINES • Jim Shaw relates a transatlantic passage taken on Polish Ocean Lines’ Stefan Batory in 1984 and interweaves it with the history of the Polish shipping company which became a joint-stock undertaking in 1999.

RMS SEGWUN Grand old lady of the Muskoka Lakes • Anthony Lambert relates the story of Segwun, built in 1887 in Glasgow and currently North America’s oldest coal‑fired vessel in operation.

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EXPLORA I • Alan Moorhouse looks at Explora I, the first ship operated by a new upmarket luxury cruise venture started by the Aponte family, under MSC group’s umbrella.

VIEW from the BRIDGE • Alan Moorhouse talked to Captain Serena Melani aboard Explora I about her career at sea, key aspects of the ship, changes and inclusivity and the future.

ON BOARD EXPLORA I

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