Palumbo Malta Shipyard – Cruise Liner MSC SEAVIEW from 31.03 to 29.04.2023

The 4, 140 passenger capacity cruise liner MSC SEAVIEW entered Grand Harbour, Malta for her 5 year scheduled drydocking on Friday 31st March, 2023 which is a Public Holiday at Malta – Freedom Day. Coming from Barcelona, […]
Maiden Call – Cruise Liner MSC WORLD EUROPA – 19.04.2023

On Wednesday 19th April, 2023 at 0638 hrs the 2022 built World Class ship MSC WORLD EUROPA entered Grand Harbour, Malta during her maiden call starting the Malta to Malta 7 Nights Cruise till October 2023. She was […]
Cargo News – Cargo Ship WINSEN – 10.05.2022

One of the German built ships that was built for a Russian Federation company still cruising around is the 29 years old 81 metre lady WINSEN. She entered Grand Harbour, Malta on Wednesday 10th May, 2022 at 0640 hrs coming from Barcelona, Spain. This was her second time here inside Valletta with the last one […]
Yachting – 156 m mega yacht DILBAR seized – 02.03.2022

On Wednesday 2nd March, 2022 the German Government seized the 4th longest yacht in the world – DILBAR as part of a series of sanctions on Russian oligarchs during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine owned by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov. DILBAR is named after Usmanov’s mother. Below is the first DILBAR launched in 2005 as a 66 […]
Yachting – Superyacht UM ALHOUL at Malta – 18.10.2021
The first out of 2 Nakilat Damen Yacht 69 model based on the Damen 6711/6911 yacht support vessel – UM ALHOUL was at Malta on Monday 18th October for uplifting bunkers. She was due to arrive at Malta on Sunday 17th but due to technical reasons at Barcelona, Spain ( of which she also made […]
Yachting – 2017 built 74 m superyacht NEW SECRET at Malta again – 2021

One of the Amels built superyachts in the world, NEW SECRET was at Malta once again during May – July 2021. She was built in 2017 as Project 7402 by the Dutch shipbuilder Amels, the second unit in the Amels Limited Edition 242 range, which follows her sister ship PLVS ULTRA homeported at Georgetown (CYM […]
CMA CGM News – FAK Rates – From North Europe & the Mediterranean to West Africa from 01.04.2021
Please find the new applicable CMA CGM Freight All Kinds (FAK) rates(*) as from April 1st, 2021 (date of loading in the origin ports) until further notice. Timeline image is of the 2004 South Korean built 277 metre long CMA CGM CHOPIN berthed at Malta Freeport Terminal 2 back to 17th June 2012 while the other one […]
Heavy Lifting – AMOENITAS discharging at Malta – 25.11.2020

On Tuesday 24th November, 2020 the 2010 built ship AMOENITAS entered Grand Harbour, Malta loaded with 3 maritime assets – tugboat and 2 motor yachts berthing at DWQ 1. Since it was windy discharging operation for the motor yacht STEPHANIE a Maiora 27 model , formerly MEDUSA that was in Dubai was left for Wednesday […]
MBL News – CARNIVAL VISTA maiden call at Malta – 09.05.2016

The 2016 built Carnival Cruise Line ship CARNIVAL VISTA made a scheduled port call at Grand Harbour 8 days after she was delivered from her Italian builders , starting a maiden voyage from Trieste, Italy on a 13 day Europe Cruise that ended in Barcelona, Spain. Greeted by a Maltese village band, CARNIVAL VISTA stayed at her […]
Shipping Lines – Compania Iscomar S.A

Iscomar (Compania Iscomar S.A.) was a company which operated a single ferry service between Alcudia on the Balearic island of Mallorca and Ciutadella on the Balearic island of Menorca. It used to operate ferry services from the Balearic’s to the Spanish mainland. After 2009, Iscomar stopped operating all of its routes except her Alcudia – Ciutadella […]