Ships Monthly

Ships Monthly is the world’s number one shipping magazine and Britain’s best-selling monthly magazine for ship lovers. Read by seafarers and enthusiasts all over the world, it contains a unique mix of shipping and maritime news, broken down by ship type, with sections focussing on ferries, cruise ships, warships, preserved vessels, tugs and cargo ships. The features, written by experts in their field, cover ships old and new, historic shipping companies and their vessels, modern cruise liners and passenger ferries, warships and naval vessels, profiles of docks and harbours in the UK and around the world, and personal accounts of voyages on ships round the world. Every issue contains an interview with the captain of a ship. In addition to the latest happenings in the shipping industry, the Ship of the Month feature goes behind the scenes on a significant ship to give readers an all-round insight into the world of ships and shipping.

Ships Monthly

THE WORLD RUNS ON SHIPS

Contributors this month

Luxury yacht

US-Iran war devastates shipping

LNG bunkering boosted

Maritime safety in the Baltic

UECC expands newbuilding programme

Fairplay joins Tug Network

Shieldhall gets lottery grant

Demand for new boxboats accelerates

Four new tugs from Turkey

Wijnne Barends sells older ships

New acquisition for SAL Heavy Lift

Damen launches tenth Island class

New timetable

Performance back in service

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF

Ferguson Marine thrown lifeline

Inter-island links improved

New propellers

Builder of new Northlink ferry selected

NZ Ferries with a view

Brittany Ferries bolsters fleet

Major disruption faced by cruise companies

Second new ship floated

Expansion continues apace

Ready for a Singapore Adventure

Residential

End of the Dream for Melody?

NEWS IN BRIEF

The toll of Trump’s tantrum

Where is the Royal Navy?

Turkey spreads its wings

Nimitz to stay a bit longer

Worst-case scenario

Austal lands new ship order

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF

Ernst Russ expands multipurpose fleet

Industrial action impacts Antwerp

Adrift in Med

NYK moves to acquire Saga Welco

ONE raises its stake in Atlas

Simonsen orders tankers

Tilbury3 gets the go-ahead

100 YEARS OF SOLENT CROSSINGS • As the Portsmouth to Fishbourne ferry route celebrates its centenary, Andrew Cooke looks back at how the service and the ships have developed during the last 100 years.

TIMELINE

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MEMORIES OF SCHELDT SHIPPING • In the 1980s photographing ships along the Scheldt River to and from the port of Antwerp consisted mainly of capturing general cargo ships, dry bulk carriers and crude tankers, but relatively few containerships. Today, the ships that pass a photographer’s lens at the same shipspotting locations are very different. Urbain Ureel recalls some of the ships that he photographed more than four decades ago.

PRIDE OF THE ANDES YAVARI AND THE HISTORIC STEAMERS OF LAKE TITICACA • Thomas Rinaldi visits the museum ship Yavari, now well over 150 years old, and the surviving fleet of historic British and Scottish-built steamers on Lake Titicaca in Peru, operating on the highest navigable water body in the world.

LAKE STEAMERS OF TITICACA

PICTORIAL • Have you an outstanding photo that would grace our gallery? Send your image to Ships Monthly for inclusion in these pages, which showcase the best in ship photography around the world.

TRANSVAAL TRANSFORMED • Completed in the early 1960s as Union-Castle’s first single-class mailship for the South...