Russia-Ukraine War – Russian Navy board a cargo ship in Black Sea after refusing to stop – August 2023
Last Tuesday 15th August, Russia released a video footage showing an armed naval inspection unit boarding a cargo ship in the southwestern Black Sea on Sunday 13th and questioning the captain about why the ship had not stopped when demanded to by a Russian warship. Russia said that it fired warning shots with automatic weapons at the […]
Aerial Photography – MPP ship MARTINA loaded – 03.08.2023
One of the Multi Purpose (MPP) Ships trading worldwide, the 109 metres vessel MARTINA, was photographed from the air by MALTA SHIP PHOTOS (MSPAP) last Thursday 3rd August, 2023 She was leaving within territorial waters (wtw) after she uplifted bunkers at OPL Malta of which she was photographed offshore Gozo on a beautiful hot sunny […]
CMA CGM News – PCS in Oran, Alger & Bejaia, Algeria from Indian Subcontinent, Middle East Gulf & Red Sea from 15.07.2023
We inform our customers that the operational situation in Oran, Alger and Bejaia, Algeria has been deteriorating for the past few weeks with no positive perspective in the weeks to come and we are experiencing huge delays in this port between congestion/waiting time plus berth time on the current vessels berthing sequences with following impacts: […]
CMA CGM News – Launching TURAF EXPRESS service connecting Turkey, Malta and Algeria – July 2023
As there are always better ways to address a market, CMA CGM – Short Sea Lines Division is pleased to announce the launch of the TURAF EXPRESS service as from WEEK 29 between TURKEY | MALTA | ALGERIA. This new weekly service (starting ex Aliaga on July 17th, 2023) – on top of proposing additional weekly service to serve […]
Cargo News – GULF RAIN at Malta in 2023
One of the Slovakian built ships trading around is the 1993 built general cargo ship GULF RAIN homeported at Bassetere , St.Kitts and Nevis (KNA). She was built at Slovenske Lodenice a.s at Komarno in Slovakia as yard number 2919 as USEDOM trading until October 1993, SEAPROGRESS until September 1997 and POSEN trading for the […]
Maiden Call – Cargo Ship NS OLZA – 07.05.2022
One of the latest ships of the Albanian Shipping Company – New Shipping , the 1990 built SLE flag NS OLZA entered Grand Harbour, Malta on her maiden call on Saturday 7th May 2022 at 0753 hrs berthing at Laboratory Wharf South 2. She was built in Germany by Hegemann Rolandwerft at Bremen as CHRISTOPHER with blue […]
Tanker News – Iran warns further tankers could be detained – 30.05.2022
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has warned that other Greek tankers currently in the Persian Gulf could be detained as the dispute between the two nations continues about the fate of an Iranian oil cargo onboard a Russian-flagged tanker that was seized in Greece in April. Iranian forces detained two Greek owned tankers – the […]
Maiden Call – Cargo Ship NS MOSVIK – 19.04.2022
One of the latest ships of the Albanian Shipping Company – New Shipping , the 1987 built PAN flag NS MOSVIK loaded with drain pipes entered Grand Harbour, Malta on her maiden call on Tuesday 19th April, 2022. She was built in Germany by Peters Schiffswerft at Wewelsfleth as PIA with green hull trading until […]
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 […]
CMA CGM News – Shanghai Reefer Imports Updates – 08.04.2022
In consequence of the pandemic control management measures undertaken by the local authorities in Shanghai, we observe massive impact on both trucking movements velocity and available trucking capacities. These factors have a major impact on import cargo that suffer drastically slower pick up time and therefore excessively stretched dwell time which results in high stress […]
