Anchor Weekly News – Week 16 of 2025.
Stay up to date with the latest maritime shipping news introducing weekly ship movements/maritime projects. Monday 14th April. (D) 0356 hrs – the ropax EUROCARGO RAVENNA left Valletta from Laboratory Wharf. Grimaldi Group, are handled in Malta by Sullivan Maritime Ltd – www.sullivanmaritime.com From 0507 to 1747 hrs the ro/ro ship ELISABETH RUSS was at Valletta berthed at […]
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 […]
Offshore – Discharging of 2024 built Jack Up Oil Rig VALI at Malta – 27-28.12.2024
The latest KFELS Super B Class Jack Up Rig for Borr Drilling delivered from Seatrium’s Pioneer Shipyard in Singapore rig roughly a year ahead of schedule – VALI arrived at Malta as a piggyback aboard the semi submersible heavy load carrier SEAWAY EAGLE on Friday 27th December, 2024. VALI was loaded from Singapore and the […]
Dangerous Goods – Damaged Bulker RUBY entered Great Yarmouth, UK for repairs – 28.10.2024
Today Monday 28th October, 2024 the damaged South Korean built bulker RUBY entered Peel Ports at Great Yarmouth, UK at 0652 UTC time. She loaded a 20,000-tonne cargo of ammonium nitrate and departed the port of Kandalaksha, Russia in late August. She ran aground in a storm shortly after getting under way and sustained damage […]
Palumbo Malta Shipyard – Chemical/Oil Tanker LUCA IEVOLI from 11.10 to 14.10.2024
In the afternoon of Friday 11th October the 2002 Italian built and owned chemical/oil tanker LUCA IEVOLI was seen passing Grand Harbour breakwaters at 1539 hrs assisted by 1 tug WENZINA. She was built by Cantiere Navale Morini at Ancora with yard no 275 as the double hull tanker LUCA IEVOLI with 1 x Wartsila […]
Gaza-Israel War – Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship NAVAREN at Malta – August 2024
One of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s Vessel – HANDALA calling all VTS worldwide as NAVAREN including on her AIS System called at Malta on Tuesday 13th August passing breakwaters at 1104 hrs. Built in 1968 at Hemnesberget, Norway as the 18 metre Norwegian fishing vessel NAVARN with radio call sign as LATQ she was […]
Gaza-Israel War – Controversial tankers OVERSEAS SANTORINI and OVERSEAS SUN COAST – July to September 2024
Following the 2023 Yom Kippur attack by Hamas on Southern Israel on Saturday 7th October , 2 controversial Product Tankers OVERSEAS SANTORINI and OVERSEAS SUN COAST are in the Breaking News Developments. OVERSEAS SANTORINI cargo is US 300,000 barrels of military grade JP-8 aviation fuel destined for the Israeli Air Force (IAF), enough for 12,000 […]
STS Operation – EAGLE TUCSON and EDITH KIRK – 04.09.2010
On Saturday 4th September, 2010 a ship to ship (STS) Operation between the 247 m aframax crude oil tanker EAGLE TUCSON and the 182.55 m chemical/oil product tanker EDITH KIRK was photographed from the air by MALTA SHIP PHOTOS offshore Malta. EAGLE TUCSON was built in Japan by Imabari Shipbuilding Co Ltd at Imabari in […]
Tanker News – Converting Tanker to a containership Project put on hold – August 2022.
Swedish tanker shipping company Concordia Maritime has decided to put on hold the project that has been exploring the feasibility of converting a tanker into a containership. “The technical study shows that it is technically feasible to convert P-MAX vessels into 2,100 TEU container vessels, but the increasing economic uncertainty has made it difficult to […]
Haifa Port – April 2022 Movements
The Port of Haifa is the largest of Israel’s three major international seaports, the others being the Port of Ashdod, and the Port of Eilat. It has a natural deep water harbor, which operates all year long, and serves both passenger and merchant ships. It is one of the largest ports in the eastern Mediterranean in terms of freight volume and […]
