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Six 2,478 TEU feeder boxships ordered by Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) will be equipped with MacGregor hatch covers with a partial box design offering improved construction, maintenance, and operational…

Report says computers are a "recipe for disaster" when used in restricted watersIt is the IT age and computers are supposed to solve our every need. Yet the grounding of a vessel…

A fire on a roro passenger ferry has caused the Marine Accident Investigation Branch of the UK government?s Department of Transport to suggest designing economiser systems with separate drain valves so that…

The collision of an oil-rig support vessel equipped with azimuthing propulsion units with an oil-rig has highlighted the problems that can occur when an Officer-on-Watch is unfamiliar with different types of propulsion…

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Designers of roro ferries are faced with a choice of maximising lane metres or minimising risk of damage to the sideshell through contact with harbour walls. Designs to maximise lane metres have…

The Channel Tunnel was supposed to kill it. But in the years since the Channel Tunnel opened, trade on the short-sea crossing from Dover in the UK to Calais in France has…

After just two years operational service, Stena Line will replace Stena Forwarder with a larger capacity ferry on its Irish Sea service between Dublin and Holyhead this summer. It will introduce the…

The Scottish west coast is about to see the introduction of two new double-ended ropax ferries being built in the UK for ferry operator Caledonian MacBrayne (Calmac). The first of these newbuildings,Coruisk,…

After many years of delays, Algerian state-owned ship operator ENTMV (Enterprise Nationale de Transports Maritimes de Voyageurs) placed an order last year for two traditional ropax ferries with Spanish shipbuilder Izar. The…