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

SIX DECADES OF PADDLERS

Contributors this month

Multi-purpose for Estonia

Latest Fure vessel named in Sweden

Rotor sails for new boxboats

Low levels impact shipping

Pipelay vessel Solitaire upgraded

US-flagged ship gets to work

Baltic Shipping boost fleet

Avenir’s LNG ambition

Wallenius acquires two ro-ro ships

Subscribe!

Next class of ship announced

ASD Tug 2811

Fortuna to become Beachcomber

Lifesaver for Northern Ireland

CMA CGM’s new flagship

NEWS IN BRIEF

Star guest attends Cowes bicentenary events

Classic ships gather in Bergen for Fjordsteam

First in Sonata class floated out

Refurbishments and new deployments

Power to the people carrier

Superfast fleet renewal

Finishing touches

Manxman missing the summer

Great Belt end of an era

Ferry seeks to turn the tables

Steam to electric and back again?

Rim of the Pacific 2026

Virginia firepower increased

New technology on the radar

Breaking point

Wicher hits the water

Hapag-Lloyd invests in Rotterdam Terminal

Collision in the Scheldt

Les Abeilles adds tug to fleet

Seized shadow tankers sold for scrap

Seaway built for Boskalis

Work commences at Truro

Old coaster sent for scrap

Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ • The term ‘shadow fleet’ is widely misunderstood and misused in the national media. The largest ‘shadow fleet’, that of Russia, mainly comprises tankers operating under foreign flags. Malcolm Cranfield explains that many of these vessels are not operated to safe, internationally recognised standards.

UKRAINE AND THE RUSSIAN ‘SHADOW FLEET’

TWO ’SHADOW FLEET’ TANKERS NAMED ANIKA

SUBSCRIBE TODAY

THE RAPTORS Three decades on the Solent • Introduced in 1994 and later transformed by major rebuilds, Red Funnel’s three Raptor class ferries Red Falcon, Red Osprey and Red Eagle have come to define the modern era of the route, as Andrew and Donna Cooke explain.

VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE

MARITIME MOSAIC KIEL CANAL PASSAGE • Colin Wright and his wife have made three transits of the Kiel Canal, the first northbound on the cruise ship Balmoral, and the second and third in their 35ft motor boat Karin in 2016 and 2018. This selection of photos was taken during those visits, and offers a small representation of some of the traffic using Europe’s busiest waterway.

60 YEARS OF PADDLE STEAMERS • To mark 60 years of Ships Monthly, John Megoran looks back to 1966, when numerous paddle steamers were still in service, albeit struggling, and relates what became of them.

VEGA THE BIG PICTURE

DUKE OF LANCASTER MONUMENT TO A BYGONE ERA OF FERRY TRAVEL • The one-time Irish...