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.

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TROUBLE IN SCOTLAND?

Contributors this month

More heavylift consolidation

New double-enders for BC Ferries

Residence ship

NEWS IN BRIEF

Baltimore Bridge incident shuts port

New for French Polynesia

Neptune Lines orders more

Dart paddler

New service from Ireland to Rotterdam

Major boost for Balmoral

Berthing trials at Tarbert

Capacity boost on Irish Sea freight route

Glen Rosa hits the water

Shaper class ships ordered

First cruise caller at new berth

Fusion pair help with carbon cuts

New Chief Executive for Channel Islands company

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

Big refits for Harwich-Hook sisters

Launched

Two more join GNV fleet

Seatruck name disappearing

Superstar sister diverted

Utopia to debut ahead of schedule

Incidents affect itineraries

Shipyard news

MSC set to resume Chinese cruising

Cruise ship order book looking healthy

Another hotel ship acquired

Victorious in the dock

The Dutch continue investing

Return of the Saint

Australia to double the size of its fleet

Drone warfare comes of age

Economics versus risk

Boxboats sold in fleet realignment

New fuel-efficient design

Autonomous zero-emission boxboats

Samskip opens new service to Oslofjord

Hydrogen power

CMA CGM goes for LNG

Whitaker’s is taken over

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ICON OF THE SEAS LARGER THAN LIFE AT SEA • John Pagni describes Royal Caribbean’s new Icon of the Seas, which, with a 248,663 gross tonnage, is the largest cruise ship in the world. Among many amazing features, she has the single largest glass and steel structure on a cruise ship, seven pools, and six waterslides, and can carry as many as 7,600 passengers.

Shetland’s inter-island links • The Shetland archipelago, lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands and Norway, is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom. There are 16 inhabited islands in Shetland, linked by an 11-strong fleet of small ferries operated and maintained by the Shetland Islands Council.

AVONMOUTH 90 YEARS AGO • In May 1934, 90 years ago, photographer W. Vaughan-Jenkins visited Avonmouth and recorded the scenes depicted here, which were similar to those witnessed by Malcolm Cranfield when he visited in the 1960s and 1970s.

ONE Ingenuity THE BIG PICTURE

VICTORIA OLD AND NEW • Thomas Rinaldi takes a trip on board the former RMS Victoria (1959), now named New Victoria, which sails back and forth across Lake Victoria in Tanzania.

SHIPS OF TANZANIA’S MARINE SERVICES...