Princess Cruises and Italian shipbuilding entity Fincantieri have announced today that they have agreed to a third ROYAL PRINCESS class vessel. The new ship, due in 2017, promises to feature some new amenities that will distinguish it from the current ROYAL PRINCESS (delivered in 2013)…
COSTA CONCORDIA UNDERWAY ON HER FINAL VOYAGE By Shawn J. Dake The final stages of the largest marine salvage project in history came a step closer to completion Wednesday, July 23, 2014, as the COSTA CONCORDIA began to move away from the island of Giglio…
by Kalle Id The Estonian ferry operator Tallink Grupp made public on Monday 21st July an agreement to charter out their largest vessel, the 1993-built SILJA EUROPA, to Bridgemans Services Ltd of Canada for 14 months (with the option of extending the charter to 48…
A GANNdez-Vous in Tallinn by Kalle Id MaritimeMatters’ Helsinki correspondent Kalle Id travels to Tallinn, Estonia for a rendez-vous with the Norwegian training ship GANN, originally the Hurtigruten coastal liner NARVIK. Official website of the GANN: www.gann.no Kalle Id’s ship photo blog: kships.blogspot.fi All photographs…
Touring Ålands Maritime Museums, Part 3: Lasses Sjöfartsmuseum by Kalle Id Join MaritimeMatters’ Kalle Id for the third and final installment on his tour of the maritime museums of Åland, this time visiting the Lars-Erik (”Lasse”) Eriksson’s fantastic private museum on the island of Värdö.…
EMERALD On The Rhine, Part Three
Wrap it up with Peter Knego aboard Emerald Waterways’ strikingly modern EMERALD SKY on her…
EMERALD On The Rhine, Part Two
Continue with Peter Knego aboard Emerald Waterways’ EMERALD SKY, the first in a four-member “Star…
MV AKDENIZ Double Decked!, Part Two
Part Two of Peter Knego’s Double Decked! Feature aboard the still very elegant but endangered…
MV AKDENIZ Double Decked!, Part One
The 1955-built MV AKDENIZ is the last almost completely original working class liner in existence.…
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