Aerial Photography – Heavy Load Carrier DONGBANG GIANT No 3
One of the ships that was photographed from the air by MALTA SHIP PHOTOS (MSPAP) in 2019 was the South Korean built and owned Heavy Load Carrier DONGBANG GIANT No 3. She was built in South Korea by Oriental Heavy Industries at Gwangyang with dimensions as 155 metres length overall (loa) and 38 metres beam. […]
Casualties – Fire aboard FSO LEONIS offshore Sicily – 24.07.2023
Last Monday 24th July,2023 the 1994 built Floating, Storage and Offload(FSO) tanker LEONIS, part of the Vega mining field managed by Edison and Eni, reported Fire Aboard. Fire was quickly extinguished by joint efforts of FSO personnel and Italian agencies responsible for safety at sea. Not much details available, understood fire was sparked off by […]
Harbour Facilities – Has Saptan Fuelling Dolphin
The only Jetty in the middle of Marsaxlokk Harbour is known as MX (Marsaxlokk) Dolphins and is situated southeast of Il-Qajjenza at Birzebbugia close to Il-Fossa which is a tourist attraction in Marsaxlokk. Has Saptan Fuelling Dolphin provides storage for local cargo in its underground installation. The installation’s capacity is over 150,000 tonnes of clean petroleum products, […]
Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) KUITO towage – Aerial Photography
On Friday 16th January, 2015 the 228,000 deadweight (dwt) floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) KUITO being towed from Angola towards Aliaga, Turkey for breakers was photographed from the air by MALTA SHIP PHOTOS around 40 nautical miles North of Malta. She was built in the United States of America by Seatrain Shipbuilding Corp at […]
