Broken Up – Offshore Tug/Supply Ship MAERSK BEATER – November 2016
One of the Norwegian built offshore vessel was the Danish owned offshore tug/supply ship MAERSK BEATER which was launched in June 1997 and entered service 3 months later. She was built by SIMEK at Flekkefjord, Norway as yard number 93 with her keel laid on Monday 17th February 1997 with a length overall of 84.6 metres. […]
Broken Up – Offshore Tug/Supply Ship MAERSK BATTLER – 2016
One of the Norwegian built offshore vessel was the Danish owned offshore tug/supply ship MAERSK BATTLER which was launched on Sunday 16th February, 1997. She was built by SIMEK at Flekkefjord, Norway as yard number 92 with her keel laid on Monday 5th August 1996, launched on Sunday 16th February, 1997 and completed on Tuesday […]
Tankers – Oil Product Tanker MERSEY SPIRIT
One of the Turkish built tankers trading around is the 1996 built 76.6 m long oil products tanker MERSEY SPIRIT. She’s a former Danish tanker from the Herning Shipping A/S of which in Malta we still have one from 2 operating with a local shipping company. She was built at Rota Shipyard at Tuzla, Turkey […]
Delivery – High Speed Craft EXPRESS 5 – 08.04.2023
On Saturday 8th April, 2023 the 115 metre newbuilt high speed craft EXPRESS 5 entered Grand Harbour, Malta during her delivery voyage at 1825 hrs coming from her builders in Philippines via Suez Canal. She was built by Austal Philippines as yard number 423 with Austal Australia as designer. She’s a follow-up order to the […]
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY – DUKE II towing High Speed Craft SPEED JET – 06.10.2022
One of the towages around the world operated by Dutch Marine Contractors (DMC) was the towage of the Austal 82 catamaran SPEED JET towed by the 34 metre tug DUKE II was photographed from the air by Malta Ship Photos in the Mediterranean Sea . DUKE II was built by Scheepswerf Gebr. Kooiman BV, Zwijndrecht, […]
Dredging – GRANE R dredging inner part of Grand Harbour – August 2022
After nearly a month anchored at Bunkering Area 3, the 2010 built DP 2 multi purpose offshore vessel GRANE R entered Grand Harbour on Friday 12th August originally coming from Viana do Castelo at Portugal of which she passed breakwaters at 0839hrs. Transport Malta issued Local Notice to Mariners no 136 regarding the dredging works […]
Delivery – Platform Supply Vessel COCO at Malta – 07.06.2022
On Tuesday 7th June, 2022 (Public Holiday in Malta ) the 82 metre DAN flag and owned newbuilt Platform Supply Vessel (PSV) COCO entered Grand Harbour, Malta during her delivery voyage and her maiden call to Malta at 0604 hrs. She was built at Vietnam at Vard Vung Tau as yard 806 with her keel […]
Local Shipping – Sea Malta’s – PINTO
Sea Malta Company Limited was the Maltese National Shipping Line. Established on 10th November 1973 during the tenure of the Labour Government led by Dominic Mintoff, which had the majority of the shares in the new company. The quest of this company was to provide maritime services company as well as to the need of the nation in general, and to […]
Delivery – Crew Transfer Vessels MHO APOLLO and MHO ASGARD – 28.08.2021
On Saturday 28th August, 2021 at 0730 hrs two Chinese built Hybrid Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs) MHO APOLLO and MHO ASGARD entered Grand Harbour, Malta during their delivery voyage making them the 3rd and 4th delivered vessels that entered Harbour for the month of August. MHO APOLLO and MHO ASGARD that were developed in collaboration with Danfoss […]
Delivery – Gozo Fast Ferry Catamarans arrive in Malta – 13.05.2021
On Thursday 13th May the 2011 built MPP vessel ANGUS entered Grand Harbour, Malta at 2005hrs berthing at Magazine Wharf part of Valletta Gateway Terminals (VGT) coming from Singapore via Suez Canal. She was built in China by Tongfang Jiangxin Shipbuilding at Jiujiang as MAERSK TEXAS trading until March 2014, renamed as THORCO ISABELLA with […]
