Ukraine Crisis – Ships Shelled in Black Sea – Feb 2022
The Black Sea is a critical region for agricultural traders and oil traders alike. Ukraine and Russia together account for more than a quarter of the global trade in wheat and about a fifth of corn. That trade was thrown into chaos after Ukraine’s ports closed in the wake of Russia’s invasion. With Russia invasion […]
Casualties – FELICITY ACE sinks off the Azores – 01.03.2022
On Tuesday 1st March, 2022 around 0900 hrs local time Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) car carrier FELICITY ACE that caught fire in the Atlantic last February 16th while carrying nearly 4,000 cars from Germany to the US sunk despite several efforts to tow her safely. The 6,400 CEU ship sank 220 nautical miles off the coast of Portugal’s […]
Vehicle Carriers – DIGNITY ACE
On Monday 3rd May, 2021 the first Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) vehicle carrier in 2021 , the DIGNITY ACE entered Grand Harbour, Malta during her maiden call at 0620 hrs coming from Piraeus, Greece berthing at Laboratory Wharf part of Valletta Gateway Terminals (VGT). She was built in 2010 by Hyundai Mipo Dockyard at Ulsan, South Korea […]
Vehicle Carriers – SEA AMAZON H
On Saturday 16th January, 2021 around 1350 hrs the 1995 built vehicle carrier SEA AMAZON H was spotted underway to Tarragona, Spain after completing uplifting bunkers at Bunkering Area 4. She was built in Japan by Shin Kochi Heavy Industries at Kochi as YUTOKU MARU trading until January 2004, RoRo HIDAKA trading for 11 months […]
Scrap Iron – Vessel MOON again loading in Malta – 11.12.2020
Metal waste is exported in Malta and from time to time, ships call at Grand Harbour, Malta berthing at Laboratory Wharf South 2 for loading scrap iron bound to Turkey. Another shipment was seen – On Friday 11th December, 2020 the 85 metre long coaster MOON was spotted loading scrap iron in her holds. She entered the […]
Beirut Blast – Cruise Liner ORIENT QUEEN sinks after the explosion – 04.08.2020
The 121 metre long cruise ship ORIENT QUEEN was berthed at Beirut Port, Lebanon on Tuesday 4th August, 2020 opposite of the massive explosion and has partially sunk to the pier where she was berthed. The Philippines’ Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that information from the Philippine Embassy in Beirut indicated that two seafarers […]
Vehicle Carriers – ELEGANT ACE – 02.05.2019
The 2010 built vehicle carrier ELEGANT ACE entered Valletta, Malta for the first time on Thursday 2nd May 2019 berthing at Magazine Wharf assisted by 2 local tugs SEA SALVOR (Bow hawser position) and LIENI (Port Quarter). She was built in Japan by Minaminnippon Shipbuilding at Usuki with loa of 199.95 m , beam of […]
Casualties – Cruise Liner Captain Suspended – January 2019
The captain of a Japanese flagged cruise liner that struck a pier at a US Navy facility in Guam on the night of December 30, 2018, was found to have consumed alcohol over the legal limit during testing following the incident. The collision, which left both the pier and the Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) vessel […]
Ship of the Week – ANTONIA
Vessel was launched on December 19th, 1969 as NECKARTAL for Transanglia Schiffahrts GmbH (J.A. Reinecke), Hamburg, Germany of which she was built by Krogerweft GmbH, Rendsburg, Germany as Yard No 1355 and was delivered on April 1st, 1970 with commencing service on various routes including chartering to Viking Line and British Railways Board. November 13th, […]
Ships at Haifa, Israel in Week 9 of 2018. The following movements are covered by a friend at Haifa, Israel – Tuesday 27th February, 2018. The 2012 built VUT flag PSV MONTET TIDE dropped anchors outside port limits coming from Larnaca, Cyprus. Also the 2005 built 225m long pipelayer AUDACIA arrived off Harbour from Cadiz. […]
