RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted July 16 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 16 A couple of boats in the anchorage. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 Ooo eck, here we go again... Quote Troubled shipyard given another £14m - but no ferry contract - Scottish ministers are to invest a further £14m in the Ferguson Marine Port Glasgow shipyard. The announcement came after the government confirmed the yard would not be directly awarded a contract to replace CalMac's ageing fleet of small ferries, with the contract put out to competitive tender. Ferguson Marine has overseen the long-delayed delivery of two larger ferries for CalMac's busy Arran route. More money? But for what? Quote Deputy First Minister Kate Forbes said a direct award would have meant "substantial risks and uncertainties" due to UK subsidy laws. Phase one of the small vessels replacement programme (SVRP) will involve replacing seven ferries on the Clyde and Hebrides network with all-electric boats. It is estimated to cost about £175m, with up to three more ferries to follow in phase two. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxe2l0jp2gno Big deja-vu feeling about this. Wasn't the big excuse (for all the delays and failures with the two larger ferries) the novelty of the design in a shipyard that had no experience of building those kind of ferries? So now they want to start making all-electric boats. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Accord Posted July 16 Share Posted July 16 5 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said: Big deja-vu feeling about this. Wasn't the big excuse (for all the delays and failures with the two larger ferries) the novelty of the design in a shipyard that had no experience of building those kind of ferries? So now they want to start making all-electric boats. They've already built three electric small vessels of exactly this type for Calmac, the only difference being in their case they were also hybrids. They were delivered in 2013/2014/2016. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mol_PMB Posted July 17 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17 In the 'Big Ditch' last night, 'Arklow Fern' transferred from Runcorn to Irwell Park (Eccles) to load scrap metal for export. She was held up for over an hour at Barton owing to problems with the swing aqueduct, but eventually that was resolved. A gloomy evening though! Arklows used to be quite common here on grain traffic to Cargills, but that hasn't run for a couple of years now. The scrap traffic generates 4 to 6 sailings a year. In sunnier conditions last week, 'Happy Falcon' had brought a cargo of propylene to the chemical plant at Carrington, and is seen in this sequence proceeding up to Irlam Locks and then swinging to head back down the canal and on to Antwerp. The propylene traffic generates about 2 sailings a year. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithMacdonald Posted July 19 Share Posted July 19 Anyone interested in historic naval stuff might like this. Quote Mare Nostrum: Roman Naval Power https://bigserge.substack.com/p/mare-nostrum-roman-naval-power 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium New Haven Neil Posted July 19 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 19 On 16/07/2024 at 02:19, jjb1970 said: The best ships I sailed on were built by IHI at their yard in Kure, Japan. The best I sailed on was built by Mitsubishi! A close second when new was by Chantiers Dunkerque (although two earlier builds were noting like as well built), but as she aged (after my time) she developed a lot of alternator engine problems, ending up with the French Crepelle (you can guess....) engines being totally replaced. 3 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted July 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 21 Some ships going in and out of Pasir Gudang. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted July 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 21 It's been a while since we've had any car carriers, so a couple of recent ones, showing two of the MOL liveries carried by their ACE vehicle carrier fleet. 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mol_PMB Posted July 21 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 21 If only the MOL alligator could make a comeback with it carrying a car over its shoulder instead of a container. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted July 22 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 22 One of the more striking indicators of how much the box boat industry has changed is the consolidation of the container interests of MOL, NYK and K into ONE (which is legally a Singaporean company even though everyone knows it's really Japanese). When I was on box boats all three were major players in the segment, now even ONE is hovering between big and also ran compared to MSC, Maersk and CMA-CGM and with those three anxiously looking over their shoulders at COSCO. 1 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jjb1970 Posted July 22 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 22 Another interesting aspect of ONE is their CEO is British, it's kind of sad that British CEOs often do better overseas (for example Tim Clark at Emirates) in corporate cultures where there is more emphasis on building actual shareholder value than short term dividends and share price. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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johnofwessex Posted July 25 Share Posted July 25 3 hours ago, big jim said: I did that trip once on Manxman. I was going to do the penultimate one but it was cancelled due to the weather 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 (edited) 2 years ago we spent a few days in Szczeczin. Whilst cycling around the city, on a whim we went on a boat trip round the port. Bulk carriers (?) were quite popular Andy Edited July 26 by SM42 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 More from Szczeczin Andy 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium fulton Posted July 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 26 2 hours ago, SM42 said: 2 years ago we spent a few days in Szczeczin. Whilst cycling around the city, on a whim we went on a boat trip round the port. Bulk carriers (?) were quite popular Andy Around the same time as you, we had a holiday in Swinoujscie, which is at the mouth of the inlet that leads to the Szczecin Lagoon, then to Szczecin, plenty of shipping passing, unfortunately did not take many photos, we drove vie Hamburg and the island of Usadom. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 11 minutes ago, fulton said: Around the same time as you, we had a holiday in Swinoujscie, which is at the mouth of the inlet that leads to the Szczecin Lagoon, then to Szczecin, plenty of shipping passing, unfortunately did not take many photos, we drove vie Hamburg and the island of Usadom. We were in Swinoujscie around 14 years ago and thought it quite mad that there was a free ferry across to the town after getting off the train. AIUI there's a tunnel now Didn't see much shipping during the visit apart from a couple of ferries which I presume ran the route to Sweden. Further east the Poles have built a new access from the Baltic to Elblag that avoids the need to use Russian waters to access the lagoon ( Zalew Wislany) and very swish it is with a swing bridge at each end of the lock so that the road is never closed when ships pass through Andy 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium fulton Posted July 26 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 26 10 minutes ago, SM42 said: We were in Swinoujscie around 14 years ago and thought it quite mad that there was a free ferry across to the town after getting off the train. AIUI there's a tunnel now The tunnel was almost complete when we were there, the ferry was also free for locally registered vehicles, the station in that part of the town was unusual in that the trains only went to Germany, or rather the rest of the island of Usedom. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 15 minutes ago, fulton said: The tunnel was almost complete when we were there, the ferry was also free for locally registered vehicles, the station in that part of the town was unusual in that the trains only went to Germany, or rather the rest of the island of Usedom. I'd forgotten about the second station. We used it for a day out in Stralsund and a tour of a submarine in Peenemunde. Andy 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted July 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27 17 hours ago, SM42 said: I'd forgotten about the second station. We used it for a day out in Stralsund and a tour of a submarine in Peenemunde. Andy Preserved U-boat or something newer? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium fulton Posted July 27 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27 8 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said: Preserved U-boat or something newer? Reminds we, when on holiday on the German island of Rugan, in the Baltic, a U Boat museum was advertised, not what I expected, was HMS OTUS, I can visit the sister submarine HMS OCELOT, just over the river from me in Chatham Dockyard, was still interesting. A maritime museum was a small barge sitting in a field, but the transport museum near Binz was very impressive, well worth a visit. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johann Marsbar Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 30 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said: Preserved U-boat or something newer? I assume its still this Soviet one....... 2 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SM42 Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 2 hours ago, Johann Marsbar said: I assume its still this Soviet one....... That's the one. Andy 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipbury Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 2 hours ago, fulton said: Reminds we, when on holiday on the German island of Rugan, in the Baltic, a U Boat museum was advertised, not what I expected, was HMS OTUS, I can visit the sister submarine HMS OCELOT, just over the river from me in Chatham Dockyard, was still interesting. A maritime museum was a small barge sitting in a field, but the transport museum near Binz was very impressive, well worth a visit. We were alongside in Mukran for a couple of weeks back in 2018 after fitting a crane on a wind farm offshore substation. There was not much going on so one day we cycled up to Binz for a beer and had a look in the transport museum on the way past. It was very impressive, I particularly liked the steam powered snow blower. I also had a trip to the submarine in Sassnitz as my uncle had sailed on HMS Otter. 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipbury Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 A few more photo's of the museum. I seem to remember the bike ride back to the ship being a lot slower after the beer was consumed in Binz (the crane operator had to be helped back on his bike at least once!). 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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