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

COMPLETE CRUISE CONTRAST

Contributors this month

NEWS IN BRIEF

The damaged ship with nowhere to dock

Historic paddler down south

Port of the Year

More problems for Cal Mac’s old ships

Royal approval for name change

BC Ferries to build in two phases

Irish Ferries merry-go-round

New Red Sea service

Methanol power links Gothenburg and Asia

Iconic former RMS for sale

Color Line ferries converted

Finnlines deploys hybrid ro-ros on new route

Galleon visits the Thames

Latest OOCL mega ship named

The Future Way is green

NEWS IN BRIEF

Bright start to sales for Brittany Ferries

Third hybrid vessel for Thames operations

FERRIES IN THE NEWS …

Further older tonnage set to depart

Boost for Orkney fleet

More E-Flexers ordered

Two-ship P&O freight fleet

More propulsion problems

Stranded ship makes headlines

QM2 tours the UK

More new ships for the coming year

Meyer Werft’s future secured

Star floated

Three events combined

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF

Reach for the sky

New sub rings the changes

Russo-Sino cooperation

Second Type 26 City class frigate enters the water

More ships, smaller crews

Japan’s mini aircraft carriers

NEWS IN BRIEF

THE Alliance to become Premier Alliance

HMM invests in new shipping

Explosion at Beilun Port

Höegh’s fleet renewal continues

Agents board Dali’s fleetmate

New dual-fuel boxboats

Spliethoff add ForestWave

Afloat again

Tall ship damaged by boxboat collision

Old gunboat for sale in Peru

Limited trips for historic tender

Historic sail-powered tanker faces an uncertain future

Lucerne Legend gets new role

Two decades of preservation

OLYMPIC BOREAS • The new CSOV, a nominee for the Ship of the Year Award, brings the latest technology to windfarm support operations.

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OCEAN ALBATROS Expedition cruising taken to the next level • Andrew and Donna Cooke went aboard the small expedition cruise ship operated by Albatros Expeditions to assess the technologically advanced vessel.

THE INFINITY CLASS SHIPS

VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

ON BOARD OCEAN ALBATROS

Ships MONTHLY MARITIME MOSAIC MSC BOXBOATS • MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) is claimed to be the world’s largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, controlling almost 20 per cent of the global container ship fleet. Urbain Ureel’s photographs show some of MSC’s many boxboats, all seen in the Scheldt Estuary heading to or...