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

FERRY HAPPY MEMORIES

Contributors this month

New design for hydrogen gets go-ahead

NEWS IN BRIEF

Belfast to invest in cruising

Celebrating a 90th birthday

Dangerous cargo taken to Ivory Coast

Charity at Christmas

Latest boxboat christened

Enter the next Stena Shipper

Electric towage

Special trips to mark Shieldhall’s 70th anniversary

Ulstein’s aftermarket contract

Falmouth farewell to Severn

Big operators dominate boxboat market

Fifth and final G5 delivered

Pride and Pioneer for BOKA

Pace heads to Middle East

Glen Sannox enters service at last

Saint-Malo arrival heralds new hybrid era

Port of Holyhead reopens after storm repairs

New freight route to Spain

New Nordic names announced

Mid-life revamp

Cruise ships heading for dry-docking

Another order makes it six

New ship destined for Japan

Surprise merger for two new companies

New company with new luxury yachts

The game of the name

National naval projects under way

Strategic Sealift role revisited

China’s relentless naval expansion

Baltic states look for trouble

New Indian trio make history

Fisher acquires new tanker

Singapore hits 40 million TEU

Damen signs with New Zealand

Sheerness expansion announced

Tow to Brazil completed

CMA CGM launches first of six

Monjasa in the Middle East

No sailings

Challenge in need of repairs for anniversary

Winter commuter paddlers

Maritime Museum moves

Ross Revenge seeks funding

Difficulties for Dresden paddlers

200th anniversary grants

NEW YEAR SALE

RMS ANDES • Remembering a famous liner and pioneering cruise ship from a bygone era

THE STRANGE WORLD OF FPSOs • FPSOs have produced oil from the North Sea for nearly 40 years. To some, Floating Production, Storage and Offloading units are not really ships, as they spend their lives anchored to one spot. But if it looks like a tanker and smells like a tanker, it probably is a tanker. Irrespective of opinion, the 30 or so FPSOs in the UK North Sea have contributed billions to the British economy, as Steve Barron explains.

SINGLE WELL OIL PRODUCTION SYSTEM

RAMFORM BANFF OF 1999

SAINT-MALO

MANXMAN The new Isle of Man flagship • The new ferry Manxman was described as the ‘game changer’ when she took over services to the Isle of Man. David Fairclough profiles the new ship and looks at the impressive passenger facilities and technical advances which have brought a new dimension to Irish Sea travel.

ON BOARD MANXMAN

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