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Jun 24, 2024 | 
shippingtandy.com | Donna K Cooke |Ian Sebire |Nigel Lawrence
The following are just a sample of what can be found in our July 2024 issue of Shipping T&Y. from NOTABLE INCIDENTSMultiple injuries were reported amongst passengers waiting to disembark the high-speed ferry Isola di Procida after it collided with the pier whilst berthing at Naples on 19th April 2024. Initial reports suggest 44 passengers were injured with 29 of those requiring hospital treatment and the impact caused several dents and gashes to the vessel’s hull.
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May 31, 2024 | 
shippingtandy.com | Donna K Cooke |Ian Sebire
Accidents & Incidents, Container & Cargo Ships, Cruise Ships, Ferries, World News Notable IncidentsMSC, the worlds largest container ship operator experienced a wretched week in late February and early March with three of its ships in the news for all the wrong reasons. On the last day of February, the 5,711 TEU MSC Katyayni’s engine failed as she was 300 miles off the northern east coast of Iberia.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
shippingtandy.com | Donna K Cooke |Andrew Cooke |Ian Sebire
Following is a taster of the news that appears in the April 2024 issue of Shipping T&Y. CONTAINER FLEETS by Ian SebireMaersk proudly introduced the first large scale container ship to be powered by methanol when the 16,000 TEU Ane Maersk (above) was named at HD Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan, South Korea at the end of January. The vessel was scheduled to enter service on the AE7 loop between Asia and Europe in February.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
shippingtandy.com | Donna K Cooke |Andrew Cooke |Ian Sebire
From Notable Incidents:Sometimes the victims (ship and crew) of a maritime incident garner less attention than their rescuer. Such was arguably the case when the diminutive ro-ro cargo ship Two Brothers capsized 30nm north of Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. Initial reports suggest that the vessel was overladen. First on the scene was the 133,596 gt cruise ship Carnival Vista which altered course to intercept the cargo ship’s drifting life raft and rescued six of the twelve strong crew.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
shippingtandy.com | Donna K Cooke |Ian Sebire
The following are a few news items from the January 2024 issue. CONTAINER FLEETS GETTING OLDERDespite the well documented plethora of new container ships on order, currently being built and delivered a report from shipping analysts BIMCO suggests that the world’s container fleet is the oldest it has ever been.
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Dec 1, 2023 | 
usni.org | Ian Sebire |Eric L. Mills
If ever an engagement encapsulated both the human and inhumane elements of naval warfare, it was the Battle of North Cape. Fought in the dark, freezing, storm-tossed seas of the Arctic Ocean, spanning a less than festive Christmastime, the clash was the last encounter between capital ships in World War II’s European theater and a battle whose outcome hinged as much on the differing philosophies and mentalities of the belligerents as on the big guns deployed by either side.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
shippingtandy.com | Ian Sebire
The 499gt Japanese registered general cargo ship Izumi Maru laden with approximately 1,100 tons of scrap metal capsized after colliding with 9,940gt Contship Uno in the Kii Channel off Japan on 24th August. The Liberian flag containership was outbound from Osaka to Keelung, Taiwan when the collision occurred at around 23.30 local time. Three of the Izumi Maru’s crew were rescued by a co-ordinated Japanese Coast Gurad search and rescue operation but two, including the captain, remained missing.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
shippingtandy.com | Ian Sebire
FOUNDER OF THE ORIENT OVERSEAS LINE“The whole thing seems like a mad fantasy”, commented that doyen of British travel broadcasters Alan Whicker in November 1971. Within two months the object of that fantasy, the largest passenger ship in the world, would be destroyed by fire in circumstances that remain a mystery. The vessel’s owner, who presided over the largest independent shipping conglomerate on the planet, was half a world away in France attending the launch of yet another new ship.
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Aug 8, 2023 | 
shippingtandy.com | Ian Sebire
As I begin this article, Poland once more finds itself on a geopolitical fault line, perched precariously in lands that have been disputed by, and/or arbitrarily sub-divided between ’Great Powers’ for much of the past two hundred and fifty years. This article is about two ships which in name and deed exemplified the spirit and stoicism of the country they represented.
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Jul 11, 2023 | 
shippingtandy.com | Ian Sebire
If ever a name is synonymous with passage by ocean liner it is Cunard. To the public at large it conjures images of a quintessentially British institution, of luxurious leviathans steaming at speed across the turbulent Atlantic, whilst their pampered passengers are indulged, enjoying fine dining in opulent interiors. All exudes sophistication. In truth the origins of both the founder and his fleet are rather more nuanced.
