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

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NEWS IN BRIEF

PIL orders eight neo-Panamaxes

Final farewell for Mersey class

New lights tender christened

Two new C-Flexers ordered in China

New shortsea open decker

Essberger expands fleet

Pacific Basin goes Handysize

Dutch Defence contract two ro-ros

Stena takes over in Latvia

Expedition ships collide in Ushuaia

US interdictions continue

Is Oriana coming back to Europe?

Longest world cruise

Fleetwide upgrades for Sphinx

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF

Stranger things

Second closure raises concerns

Cemre delivers

Stena Line gets wind in the sails

CalMac’s travails endure

Battle across the Islands

New frigate makes her debut

More Red and White ships

Japan’s new defensive shield

Hypersonic star or white elephant?

Southern Spear

North Korea joins the nuclear club

NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF

Cautious return to the Suez Canal

Sinokor expands in VLCC sector

Jinjiang plans new boxships

BaltNav and Navison Shipping Merge

Shanghai port sets new record

Sallaum Lines relocates to Cyprus

Italians seize bulk carrier

UK visitor

Schooner to Carrickfergus

Second phase for Dart paddler

Lake Wakatipu steamer returns

Lake Constance veteran to be withdrawn

Sailing the Elbe

Historic polar vessel auctioned

30 years on the Thames

NEW YEAR SALE

BIBBY LINE REMEMBERED • The Bibby Line, one of the oldest privately-owned shipping companies in the UK, was founded in Liverpool and based its initial growth on trade to Burma. This overview of the company covers its fleet development from the 19th century to World War II; part 2 will cover the post-1945 era.

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.

Ship MONTHLY MARITIME MOSAIC P&O ORIENT LINE • The Peninsular & Orient Steam Navigation Co was founded in 1837 and began UK-Australia sailings in 1852. Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, P&O and Orient Line developed regular passenger and mail services between Britain and Australia. The route’s heyday was the 1950s and 1960s, notably following the merger with Orient in 1960, when P&O-Orient Lines boasted the largest passenger fleet outside the North Atlantic, operating many famous ships.

ULTRA LUXURY RITZ CARLTON YACHT’S TRIO • Following the recent delivery of Luminara, Alan Moorhouse assesses the Ritz Carlton Yacht Collection from its inception in 2017, and focuses on Ilma, the first of a pair of...