Tugboat – Cory Towage OAKGARTH
One of the McTay Marine Limited built vessels that was built was the tugboat OAKGARTH. With yard number 55 and delivered to ICB (Leasing) Ltd she was managed by Cory Towage Ltd, London, UK . During 1992 she was sold to MCI Leasing and managed by Cory Towage Ltd. In 1998 she was fitted with […]
Tall Ships – Replica GOTEBORG at Malta – October 2022
The world’s largest ocean-going wooden hull tall ship , built as a replica of an 18th Century vessel , GOTEBORG entered Grand Harbour, Malta on Friday 14th October during a 2 year voyage from Sweden to Shanghai. While she was entering a gun salute was done from the ship and answered from Valletta’s Saluting Battery. […]
Broken Up – Tall Ship EARL OF PEMBROKE – 2nd December 2022
The 1945 Swedish built wooden 3 masted barque ship EARL OF PEMBROKE was towed/pushed to Kampen, Netherlands to be broken up on Friday 2nd December 2022 at Hoeben RDM Schepen. She was built in Pukavik, Sweden as ORION and used to haul timber in the Baltic Sea until 1974 when she was laid up in Thisted, Denmark She was moved to […]
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 […]
Heavy Lift – 2018 built GPO AMETHYST
One of the four sister ships of equal design in semisubmersible vessels in the world is the 2018 built 225 metres GPO AMETHYST. She was built by CSBC Corporation in Taiwan as yard number 1058 in 2018 with 225.008 metres long, beam of 48.02 metres and draft of 10.67 metres. She’s homeported at Majuro with […]
Delivery Voyage – World’s Largest Civilian Hospital Ship GLOBAL MERCY at Malta – 02.09.2021.
On Thursday 2nd September, 2021 the world’s largest civilian hospital ship – GLOBAL MERCY entered Grand Harbour, Malta at 0709 hrs assisted by 1 tug berthing port side alongside Boiler Wharf. She arrived on Tuesday 31st August after 2200 hrs and was spotted drifting outside territorial waters around 43 nautical miles After several years of […]
RoRo Vessels – TYRUSLAND
One of the Swedish owned vessels that used to call at Malta mainly at the Malta Freeport at Marsaxlokk Harbour, Malta was the 1978 built TYRUSLAND. She was built in Japan by Mitsui Eng. & SB. Co Ltd at Chiba as yard number 1182 for Brostroms Rederi AB as TYRUSLAND from 1978 to 1984. She […]
RoRo Vessels – JOLLY AMARANTO
One of the most interesting roro’s built in late 70’s was the Linea Messina vessel JOLLY AMARANTO. Entering Grand Harbour, Malta back to Monday 16th June 2008. Built at Kawasaki in Kobe, Japan in 1977 as the Swedish TAUBE for the Swedish Shipping Company SCANDINAVIA MOTORSHIP A/S as a Boro (from the English B ulk O il Ro Ro ) freighter that […]
Local Shipping – ZAMTUGS.
In the middle 1980’s the Zammit Group of Companies, who pioneered inland ferry services before the establishment of Gozo Channel Co Ltd, ventured into towage though for a short period, purchasing and operating 5 tugs which their names started with ZAMTUG followed by a roman number. ZAMTUG Built in 1957 at NV Scheepswerf v/h Jonker […]
Coronavirus – Stena Line will lay off 950 employees – 16.03.2020
The coronavirus pandemic has taken its toll on Swedish ferry company STENA LINE, who announced last Monday 16th March, 2020 that it will cut 950 jobs due to a sharp decline in passenger travel bookings as a result of the outbreak. Stena Line said the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak and subsequent travel restrictions imposed by several countries have […]
