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

LOW-KEY DEBUT FOR P&O’S NEW SHIP

Contributors this month

Two arrive for decommissioning

NEWS IN BRIEF

Honfleur finally enters service

Vard’s hybrid

P&O Pioneer makes Channel entrance

Piraeus has record year

Bangladesh to add 20 ships by 2030

Famous name to disappear

First caller ahead of a busy season

Channel veteran Viking III goes to breakers

Dual-fuel power for Hafnia

‘Reverse’ Rockhopper cruising

Sir John Fisher comes to London

Farewell to Dover stalwart

Ice sinks bulker off Sakhalin

Samskip launches next generation

Fierce competition for New Zealand vessel

Surprise nine-month catamaran charter

FERRIES IN THE NEWS…

E-Flexer Santona makes March debut

Star chartered

New freight links from Europe

End in sight for Stena Europe

Costa’s fleet getting back to work

Covid restrictions come to an end

Surprise sale

Another reprieve and a new career

A first for China

Keel-laying for two new ships

Latest addition to enter service

More from the class leader

Minehunters to be transferred

High stakes

Green light for SSN-AUKUS alliance

Tomahawk transactions

Change of identity for two

Bulker breaking up off Gibraltar

Carisbrooke to trial hydrogen

‘Ready’ tankers

MSC buys Maersk ships

Good combination

Ten LNG-fuelled bulkers

TS Lines sells and buys

Towage industry pushes green technology

100-year-old tug in need of repairs

The most tugs

30 Turkish tugs delivered

Offshore tug on the Rampage

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WORLD NAVIES OVERVIEW 2023 • Conrad Waters, Editor of Seaforth World Naval Review, provides his annual assessment of global naval developments, with descriptions of some of the more interesting warship acquisition programmes currently under way.

SMYRIL LINE FAROE ISLANDS’ LINK WITH THE WORLD • The well-respected shipping company Smyril provides the Faroe Islands with an essential link to Iceland, northern Europe and the Baltic States, as Richard Webber explains.

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CARNIVAL’S NEW FLAGSHIP • Andy Hernandez recently sailed aboard the new Carnival Celebration, the company’s new flagship, and discovered what she has to offer.

ON BOARD CARNIVAL CELEBRATION

BOEING’S JETFOILS FLYING THE WAVES • To see a passenger hydrofoil flying smoothly over choppy seas at 40 knots is no surprise today. But in the 1970s, the Boeing Jetfoil was pure science fiction. It used radar to measure oncoming waves, processed the data through a suit-casesized computer and hydraulically adjusted the foils to maintain smooth, level flight. Steve...