Renaming – EUROCARGO CATANIA to LISTA – January, 2025
One of the Danish built ro/ro ships trading around – EUROCARGO CATANIA was sold during January 2025 and renamed as LISTA. She was built at Odense Steel Shipyard, Denmark as STRAIT OF MAGELLAN in 2011 with yard number 233 as one from Eight Sisters with 3,663 lane metres roll on/roll off (roro) Despite the fact […]
Casualty – Japanese Purse Seiner OOHAMA MARU No 8 capsizes – 06.01.2025
The Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed today Tuesday 7th January 2025, that five Indonesian citizens who were reportedly members of the crew on a capsized 30.15 metres purse seiner OOHAMA MARU No 8 in Japanese waters yesterday Monday 6th were safe. According to the ministry’s Citizen Protection Director, Judha Nugraha, the Indonesian Embassy in […]
Palumbo Malta Shipyard – LPG Gas Carrier LEKVAR from 17.12 to 26.12.2024
One of the Chinese built gas carriers trading worldwide is the LPG Gas Carrier LEKVAR that entered Grand Harbour, Malta for the first time on Tuesday 17th December, 2024 at 1521 hrs. Assisted by a tug she proceeded to Palumbo Malta Shipyard Ltd berthing at Parlatorio Wharf. More images can be found here – https://maltashipphotos.com/photo/lekvar-17-12-2024/ […]
Welcome to 2025
Overall 2024 was a good year……..it was a year of adjustments, changes, adaptation, completed the large process of never ending digitalising from slides/negatives with filing in our archives and officially opened another office with great team in Sicily. Apart from adding more Logos to our site both locally and worldwide including Non Shipping stuff such […]
Local Shipping – 46 towing BEZZ V – November 2024
MARINE CONSTRUCTION is the process of building structures in or adjacent to large bodies of water, usually the sea. These structures can be built for a variety of purposes, including transportation, energy production, and recreation. Marine construction can involve the use of a variety of building materials, predominantly steel and concrete. Some examples of marine structures […]
Cable Layer – CERTAMEN
The world’s first icebreaking cable repair ship built was the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) ship CCGS JOHN CABOT named after John Cabot, a Venetian explorer from the Age of Exploration of which was built in Montreal, Canada and commissioned on 31st May 1965. During 1996 she was decommissioned, refitted for more service and acquired by the […]
Ship Repair – Superyachts GIGIA and PROJECT X again drydocked at Melita Shipyard Ltd – Q3 and Q4 of 2024
Increasing its capacity with repetitive clients number every year following numerous accomplishments, the Superyachts GIGIA and PROJECT X called once again at Melita Shipyard. After spending 204 days drydocked from Monday 23rd October, 2023 to Tuesday 14th May, 2024 the 85 metre Lurssen built superyacht GIGIA called once again to the 102 metres floating dock NAZLAB. […]
Former Military – Converted Yacht LADY VISTA from Swedish Navy Minesweeper at Malta – November 2010
One of the former naval vessels that was given a second life, converted as a motor yacht LADY VISTA was seen at Malta during November 2010 moored at Grand Harbour Marina (GHM). Built in 1954 by Marinverkstaderna Orlogsvarvet at Karlskrona, Sweden as the coastal minelayer MUL 14 GRUNDSUND, part of the Coastal Artillery Service she […]
Casualty – Japanese Navy Minesweeper JS UKUSHIMA MSC 686 Sinks after fire – 11.11.2024
Early today Monday 11th November the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Sugashima Class Coastal Minesweeper JS UKUSHIMA MSC 686 capsized and sank off Japan’s western coast about 2.5 kilometres off Oshima Island in Fukuoka Prefecture after a fire broke in her engine room on Sunday 10th, November. Homeported at Sasebo, Japan she was commissioned on […]
Cars Transhipment – Vessels HOEGH BERLIN, SEA CARYATIS and SEA PATRIS – Q3 of 2024
Transhipment refer to logistics and transportation to facilitate the transfer of cargo or goods from one mode of transportation to another and is a fundamental component of intermodal transportation, where cargo is transferred between of which Valletta Gateway Terminals (VGT) boosts exceptional car compound facilities located at Laboratory Wharf The second Car Equivalent Unit (CEU) transhipment […]
