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

DECARBONISING SHIPPING

Ships MONTHLY

NEWS IN BRIEF

Rebuilt Stena Foreteller returns

Cutting-edge technology

CMA CGM expands in US

Freight route set to be withdrawn

New cement ship Tamarack

Fast ferry for South Korea

Fowey’s fond farewell to Trent

Cable layer hull fitted out

Hamburg port plans billion-euro upgrade

Retracing Darwin’s voyage

Washington goes hybrid

CRUISE

Three more in Genoa

Strikes disrupt Star’s delivery

NEWS IN BRIEF

FERRY

Channel rivalry hots up in the courts

Progress for beleaguered Cal Mac

Fill the gap

Stena Line’s strategic reshuffle

British veteran still at work

Electrification of the Kattegat

Another E-Flexer almost ready

NAVAL

Poland’s new eyes and ears

Decisive action over delays

Kaput Kuznetzov’s downward spiral

Covid hangover

Castle moves from blue to white

NEWS IN BRIEF

CARGO

Houthis sink bulkers in Red Sea

Detained boxships freed in Malta

Wind power for tankers

CMA CGM hits four million TEU

Yang Ming’s new boxboats

Eimskip sells Lagarfoss

Van Oord orders next-gen

THE TALL SHIPS RETURN TO ABERDEEN

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THE RACEHORE CLASS FERRIES • The Racehorse class roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) passenger and vehicle ferries were built for Merchant Ferries in the late 1990s and were initially used on a variety of UK ferry routes. They have since enjoyed varied careers with different operators round the world.

BRAVE MERCHANT

DAWN MERCHANT

MIDNIGHT MERCHANT

NORTHERN MERCHANT

‘LUSTY’ REMEMBERED HMS ILLUSTRIOUS • HMS Illustrious, or ‘Lusty’ as she was known to her crew, commissioned in March 1983. Her career ended in August 2014 when she formally left Royal Navy service, and she sailed from her Portsmouth homeport for the last time in December 2016, destined for the breakers. James Hendrie looks back at the career of one of the RN’s finest ships.

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.

MSC TAKE ON THE WORLD • The first of six World class ships, MSC World Europa, was introduced in late 2022 and has primarily been sailing in the Mediterranean. The second, MSC World America, started serving the Caribbean in April. MSC World Asia will follow in 2026 and MSC World Atlantic in 2027. Scott Mackey profiles MSC World Europa, currently the ninth largest cruise ship in the world, and Andy Hernandez sailed aboard MSC World America to see what she had to offer.

BACKGROUND MSC CRUISES

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