Casualties – CHEM P salvage update – 21.03.2022
With stormy weather including ESE gale force winds with very high swell the shifting of the tanker CHEM P from her current position to a designated area was hampered and cancelled for Sunday 20th March, 2022. With SITREP every hour or so to access the situation it was decided to leave it for today Monday […]
Delivery – Damen built tugs VB FLANDES and VB SAMBA at Malta – 10.08.2021
On Tuesday 10th August, 2021 two Damen ART 80-32 built tugs VB FLANDES and VB SAMBA entered Grand Harbour, Malta during their delivery voyage. They left Al Hamriyah, United Arab Emirates on Saturday 17th July arriving at the Suez Anchorage, Egypt on Monday 2nd August. Both left the anchorage to transit via the Suez Canal […]
Local Shipping – Workboat MONTE ROSA
One of the former Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboats operating in the Maltese Islands is MONTE ROSA. She was brought in Malta as a deck cargo aboard the MPP ship AQUILA J which berthed starboard side alongside at Pinto 4 wharf, part of Valletta Cruise Port. She was built in 1980 by W.A. Souter […]
Heavy Lift Vessels – HAPPY RIVER
One of the Happy R type that forms part of BigLift Shipping, one of the world’s leading heavy lift shipping companies is the 1997 built vessel HAPPY RIVER. Back to June 2019. She was built in the Netherlands by IHC Merwede Scheepswerf and homeported at Amsterdam, Netherlands (NLD Flag). She’s equipped with 2 strong, 400 […]
LNG News – Shell gas carrier GEMMATA at Malta again – 10.09.2020
On Thursday 10th September, 2020 the 290 m long British gas carrier GEMMATA entered Marsaxlokk Harbour for another shipment bound to the Floating Storage Unit (FSU) ARMADA LNG MEDITERRANA. This is not her first shipment in fact she was last here in July, 2020 . She was built in Nagasaki, Japan in 2004 and homeported at Singapore […]
Coronavirus – Elderly Maltese Couple disembarking from cruise liner COLUMBUS OPL Malta – 06.04.2020
An elderly Maltese couple on an aborted cruise was allowed to return to their home country at Malta after the intervention of the Prime Minister. The couple had appealed to the Public Health Superintendent Profs. Charmaine Gauci to reconsider her position after refusing them permission to disembark in Malta after they wrote an open letter. […]
Palumbo Malta Shipyard – RFA WAVE KNIGHT A 389 – 24.07.2019 to 01.08.2019
On Wednesday 24th July, 2019 at 1144 hrs the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Wave Class Fleet Tanker RFA WAVE KNIGHT A 389 entered Valletta for the first time assisted by local tugs LIENI and SEA SALVOR after she was cleared to enter both from authorities and from the chemist that tested the vessel as Gas […]
Latest Addition to Malta Maritime Pilots – Pilot Boat JULIET 1 – 30.11.2018
On Friday 30th November 2018 the Transport Minister Dr. Ian Borg inaugurated a new pilot boat JULIET 1 to the Malta Maritime Pilots. She was built by Safehaven Marine as JULIET (1 was added in Malta during November), the third pilot vessel to be supplied to Malta by Safehaven. She has an operational speed of 25 knots, powered […]
Arrival of Floating Dock NAZLAB – 10.05.2014
On 28th April 2014 Melita Marine Group, Malta took over a Floating Dock with 5,000 tons lifting capacity from Western Ship Repair Yard, Klaipeda part of the BLRT Grupp to be renamed NAZLAB. With a length overall of 102 meters, inside width 20 meters and draft over keel blocks of 6 meters, the dock at […]
Rescue – MELITA I called off Valletta – 02.11.2018
The 2011 built Interceptor 48 Pilot model pilot boat FOXTROT operating for the Malta Maritime Pilots called Valletta Port Control (VTS) stated that at 1118 hrs when in position off Grand Harbour she noticed a sailing dinghy with 1 person on board capsizing all the time and he can’t make it inside due to the […]
