Anchor Weekly News – Week 15 of 2025.
Stay up to date with the latest maritime shipping news introducing weekly ship movements/maritime projects. Monday 7th April. (A) 0002 hrs – the general ship NS SABINA entered Valletta bound to Magazine Wharf. (D) 0335 hrs – the ropax EUROCARGO RAVENNA left Valletta from Laboratory Wharf. Grimaldi Group, are handled in Malta by Sullivan Maritime […]
Anchor Weekly News – Week 14 of 2025.
Stay up to date with the latest maritime shipping news introducing weekly ship movements/maritime projects. Monday 31st March. (D) 0358 hrs the ropax EUROCARGO RAVENNA was at Valletta berthed at Laboratory Wharf coming and going to Catania, Sicily. Grimaldi Group, are handled in Malta by Sullivan Maritime Ltd – www.sullivanmaritime.com From 0441 to 1937 hrs the ro/ro […]
Ship Repair – Superyacht YALLA drydocked at Melita Shipyard Ltd – January to April 2025
Increasing its capacity every year following numerous accomplishments, the Italian built Superyacht YALLA called for the first time at Malta and at Melita Shipyard. Built by CRN Yacht with yard number 70 she was delivered during 2014 for the Egyptian Billionaire Naquib Sawiris, born in 1954. Until 2011 he was Chairman at Wind Telecom, then known […]
Malta Naval Visits – March 2025
Saturday 1st March. The Marina Militare Italiana Cassiopea Class Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) ITS CASSIOPEA P 401 was the first naval unit to enter for the month of March and passed breakwaters at 0913 hrs since tugs were engaged with a Panamax Crude Oil Tanker Movement. Original eta was at 0800 but she exchanged VHF […]
Anchor Weekly News – Week 13 of 2025.
Stay up to date with the latest maritime shipping news introducing weekly ship movements/maritime projects. Monday 24th March. From 0034 hrs to 0432 hrs the ropax EUROCARGO RAVENNA was at Valletta berthed at Laboratory Wharf coming and going to Catania, Sicily. Grimaldi Group, are handled in Malta by Sullivan Maritime Ltd – www.sullivanmaritime.com From 0506 to […]
Casualty – Turkish Gulet PASA PRVI Wreck Removal 24 to 26.03.2025
During Week 3 of the year 2025, the Central Mediterranean including the Maltese Islands experienced severe weather including SE Force 7 winds happening on Friday 17th January battering the exposed areas. Storm caused disruption throughout the country especially in the exposed areas with ships sheltering to the West Coast and other ships dragging anchor. Unfortunately […]
Casualties – FUGRO MERCATOR salvage operation – 25 to 26.03.2025
On Tuesday 25th March, 2025 salvage operation was in effect to pull off the grounded 42m research vessel FUGRO MERCATOR that ran aground while sheltering from weather conditions last Saturday 22nd March – https://maltashipphotos.com/casualty-research-vessel-fugro-mercator-runs-aground-22-03-2025/ At 0823 hrs UTC the Fratelli Neri 16.76m Damen Stan Tug 1606 PACINI arrived in position from Darsena Calafati, Porto di […]
Palumbo Superyachts – 130 m Yacht Support Vessel M2 from 28.11.2024 to 27.03.2025
On Thursday 28th November, 2024 the former French Polynesia passenger/cargo ship ARANUI 3 converted into a yacht support vessel M2 entered Grand Harbour, Malta during her maiden call bound to Palumbo Superyachts (PSY). She was built by Severnav Shipyard at Severin, Romania as yard no 130 launched on 9th March 2002 and completed on 24th […]
Anchor Weekly News – Week 12 of 2025.
Stay up to date with the latest maritime shipping news introducing weekly ship movements/maritime projects. Monday 17th March. (D) – 0053 hrs the 1988 built BLZ flag general cargo ship NS PRIDE entered Valletta for Magazine Wharf. More images can be found here – https://maltashipphotos.com/photo/ns-pride-13-07-2021/ (D) – 0252 hrs the ropax EUROCARGO RAVENNA passed breakwaters outbound […]
Casualties – Research Vessel FUGRO MERCATOR runs aground – 22.03.2025
In the evening of Saturday 22nd March, 2025 the 2003 built BHS flag 42 m research vessel FUGRO MERCATOR ran aground on Saturday evening, March 22, on the reef of the Enfola promontory, near Portoferraio on the island of Elba (Livorno). She was sheltering from the current bad weather happening in the Mediterranean Sea, and would have […]
