Casualties – EEMSLIFT HENDRIKA Salvage Update (0815 UTC) -07.04.2021
Boskalis has confirmed that its subsidiary Smit Salvage has been hired to salvage the EEMSLIFT HENDRIKA which is currently adrift as an abandoned ship after a heavy list with all crew rescued off the coast of Norway last Monday 5th April, 2021. Read also yesterday article – https://maltashipnews.com/2021/04/06/casualties-crew-abandon-ship-eemslift-hendrika-05-04-2021/ Salvage team arrived as early as Tuesday […]
Delivery – Austal Philippines built catamaran – FJORD FSTR – 03.04.2021
On Saturday 3rd April, 2021 at 0804 hrs the 109 metre High Speed Craft FJORD FSTR ( Hull 419 ) entered Grand Harbour, Malta during her delivery voyage which started on Friday 5th March, 2021. In fact on Friday 5th March, 2021 FJORD FSTR started her journey to Hirtshals, Denmark from the shipyard in Balamban, […]
Local Shipping – JYLLAND
One of the oldest ferries that ran between the islands of Malta and Gozo was the JYLLAND. On 15th May 1943 she was completed by Pullman Car Standard Manufacturing Co at Chicago, USA for the US Navy as Submarine Chaser PCE 828 which was launched on 17th November 1942. On 31st July 1943 she was […]
MBL News – Superyacht AL LUSAIL in Malta again – July 2019.
The 123 m (404 feet) long QAT flag and owned superyacht AL LUSAIL was seen again at the Grand Harbour, Malta on 7th July,2019 berthed at the Valletta Cruise Port Pinto Wharf no 3. She was built in 2017 by Lurssen at their shipyard in Bremen as Project Jupiter and she belongs to the Emir […]
