Anchor Weekly News – 1st to 9th March 2025.
Stay up to date with the latest maritime shipping news introducing weekly ship movements/maritime projects. Saturday 1st March. First shipping movement at Valletta was the arrival of the 2017 built tug ST ANGELO that passed breakwaters at 0559 hrs wearing fresh MedTug livery from Augusta, Sicily after she was drydocked. More images here – St. […]
Ship Orders – New hybrid PCTCs from China by UECC – October 2024
The 1990 founded, Norwegian roll on/roll off (roro) United European Car Carriers (UECC) has signed a shipbuilding contract with China Merchants Jinling Shipyard Nanjing for two (+ two options) advanced multi-fuel battery hybrid pure car and truck carriers (PCTCs) last October. The first two vessels are scheduled for delivery in 2028. These vessels will represent […]
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 […]
Maritime Accident – 300m container ship DALI rammed a Bridge at Baltimore, USA – 26.03.2024
The most severe US bridge allision since the Tampa Skyway Bridge disaster in 1980 happened around 0128 hrs of Tuesday 26th March, 2024 in the while the ship was under pilotage. The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after being rammed by the Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) built 299.9m long (loa) container ship DALI causing […]
Hijacking – Car Carrier GALAXY LEADER – 19.11.2023
On Sunday 19th November, 2023 , NYK Chartered Pure Car and Truck Carrier (PCTC) GALAXY LEADER was named hijacked by Iran-affiliated Houthi militia, who described her as “an Israeli ship,” and taken to a Yemeni port. Al Jazeera News Agency cited a Houthi spokesman as saying the seizure of the ship was in response to […]
Vehicle Carriers – HOEGH BANGKOK sale and HOEGH JACKSONVILLE purchase – October 2023
Norwegian roll-on/roll-off shipping company Höegh Autoliners ASA has recently reached an agreement for the sale of the 2007 built car carrier HOEGH BANGKOK. She was built in Croatia by Uljanik Shipyard at Pula with 6,500 CEU as cargo capacity and 100 metric tons of ramp capacity. The vessel will be sold for a price of […]
Tugboat News – POINT SPENCER at Malta – 1983
One of the tugs that was involved in the salvage of the car carrier fire FREMANTLE HIGHWAY that started on 26th July, 2023 , the 1972 built HUNTER traded for sometime at Malta as the POINT SPENCER. On 8th October 1972 she was launched by Richard Dunston (Hessle) Ltd with yard number S888 and in […]
Casualties – One dead in fire onboard car carrier FREMANTLE HIGHWAY – 25.06.2023
Around 2230hrs on Tuesday 25th July, the Dutch coastguard received a report that a major fire broke out on the car carrier FREMANTLE HIGHWAY with 23 crew members onboard at the time and was sailing 27 kilometres north of Ameland. She left Bremerhaven, Germany around 1430hrs UTC bound for Egypt. The fire erupted around 2130hrs […]
Maiden Call – PCTC RCC COMPASS at Malta – 11.01.2023
The 2013 built vehicles carrier RCC COMPASS entered Grand Harbour, Malta on Wednesday 11th January, 2023 marking her maiden call to Valletta Port. She was due to enter on Monday 9th evening and leave on Tuesday 10th in the morning but due to Gale Force Winds on the 10th January it was much clever to […]
Vehicle Carriers – LNG Battery Hybrid PCTC AUTO ACHIEVE – 28.07.2022
On Thursday 28th July, 2022 the 2022 built LNG Battery Hybrid Pure Car and Truck Carrier (PCTC) AUTO ACHIEVE was photographed from the air by MALTA SHIP PHOTOS around 35 nautical miles offshore Malta. She’s the second ship from a series of 3 LNG Battery Hybrid newbuilds being built at the Jiangnan Shipyard in China […]
