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 […]
Casualties – 2 Dead firefighters in Grimaldi’s ship blaze at USA – 05.07.2023

2 firefighters were confirmed dead after the Grimaldi conro ship GRANDE COSTA D’AVORIO caught fire at the Port of Newark in New Jersey late Wednesday, 5th July, 2023. Firefighters were dispatched around 2130 hrs local time for a report of multiple vehicles on fire on board the 2011 Croatian built ship that arrived from Baltimore […]
Cruise Liners – DALMACIJA

The first Yugoslav Ship that had a bulbous bow and called the Adriatic Beauty was the DALAMACIJA. She was built in 1965 by Brodogradiliste Uljanik in Yugoslavia (now Croatia) for Jadranska Linijska Plovidba (the Yugoslav state shipping company) or as known as JUGOLINJA. She had a sister built as ISTRA of which was broken up […]