Local Shipping – Sea Malta’s – BORMLA
Sea Malta Company Limited was the Maltese National Shipping Line. Established on 10th November 1973 during the tenure of the Labour Government led by Dominic Mintoff, which had the majority of the shares in the new company. The quest of this company was to provide maritime services company as well as to the need of the nation in general, and to […]
RoRo Vessels – CARMANIA EXPRESS
One of the Polish built vessels for the Soviet Union was the Skulptor Konenkov Class known as B-481 project . She was built by Stocznia Gdanska, Gdansk, Poland as yard number B481/10 for Baltic Shipping Co, USSR. She was sold to Ignazio Messina, Italy in 1996 and renamed JOLLY GIALLO, sold again and renamed SCAN […]
RoRo Vessels – Linea Messina ship JOLLY INDACO
One of the Soviet Union (USSR) built vessels that used to call at Malta was the 1989 built ro/ro vessel JOLLY INDACO owned by Linea Messina, Italy. She was built at Severnaya Verf Shipbuilding Yard at Saint Petersburg as yard number 843 as the Project 16071 ro/ro ship for Baltic Sea Shipping, USSR as S.KIROV […]
CMA CGM News – BAF update – Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco Roro services effective from 01.10.2023
On Wednesday 13th September, 2023 CMA CGM issued the following Bunker Recovery Adjustment Factor (BAF) Update – Following bunker prices evolution since the last surcharge adjustment, CMA CGM SSL Intra Europe will revise its BAF as follows on its Roro South services connecting France with Algeria, Tunisia & Morocco (import & export): Effective October 1st, 2023: […]
Maiden Call – Finnish ro/ro vessel FINNSUN – 14.07.2023
On Friday 14th July , the 218 metre ro/ro vessel FINNSUN entered Grand Harbour, Malta at 0811 hrs coming from Salerno, Italy during her maiden call. Her purpose of the port call was to discharge new cars and berthed at Laboratory Wharf Inner, part of Valletta Gateway Terminals (VGT). […]
Different Ships Bearing Same Name – Tarros Line VENTO DI GRECALE at Malta
The Italian Shipping Line TARROS , founded in 1828 involved in transportation including logistics, containers and related services in the Mediterranean Sea is one of the shipping companies that when a vessel is chartered she’s given a predecessor name. The first known VENTO DI GRECALE at Malta was the Italian built 119 metres long ro/ro […]
Hijacking – Italian special forces free hijacked ship off Naples, Italy – 09.06.2023
On Friday 9th June the Italian Naval Special Forces San Marco were alerted after receiving an SOS call of the Turkish flag (TUR) ro/ro ship GALATA SEAWAYS hijacked of which they flew on 2 Helicopters from their Brindisi HQ towards the Tyrennian Sea. The ship departed Yalova, Turkey last Wednesday bound for Sete, France where […]
CMA CGM News – BAF update – Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco Roro services – May 2023
Following bunker prices evolution since the last surcharge adjustment, CMA CGM SSL Intra Europe will maintain its Bunker Adjustment Formula (BAF) as follows on its Roro South services connecting France with Algeria, Tunisia & Morocco (import & export): Effective June 1st, 2023: Cargo Algeria service Tunisia service Morocco service Roll, full EUR 1,088/unit EUR […]
ConRo News – Grimaldi’s Hybrid RoRo ECO MALTA christened at Malta – 30.05.2022
The sixth ship from a class of twelve hybrid vessels of the innovative Grimaldi Green 5th Generation (GG5G) class the ECO MALTA was christened at Grand Harbour while she was berthed at Laboratory Wharf during her second voyage to Malta. She was delivered last March and the 3rd GG5G vessel seen in Valletta, first one ECO LIVORNO on […]
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 […]
