August 21, 2018

Valletta Cruise Port – Week 30 of 2018

Interesting Week seeing different types of ships with cruise liners Aerial Image of BAHRIJA Village back to 21st December,2008 Sunday 22nd July, 2018. At 0036 hrs the 2009 built cruise liner with BHS flag SEABOURN ODYSSEY left Valletta from Pinto 1 wharf to cruise slowly to anchor off Mgarr Harbour, Gozo. Vessel was represented in Malta by …

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Local Shipping – Tugboat CMS SEALION

45 years on since she was built and still sailing 🙂 Built in 1973 by Richards (Shipbuilders) Ltd, Crownworks, Lowestoft, UK (Yard no 515) as RALPH CROSS for Tees Towing Co, Middlesbrough, UK as a Kort Nozzle single screw tug and a bollard pull of 40 tons In June 1989 she was sold to Tug …

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Fishing – Portuguese Gill netter AGRIAO

Yesterday Monday 20th August, 2018 at 1020 hrs the Gill Netter AGRIAO with fishing registration as PD (Ponta Delgada, Azores) 561C was seen entering Valletta, Malta berthing at Dwq 2 Wharf. She was built at Gestinaval in Cudillero, Spain in  2000 with a length overall of 30 metres and 8 metres width and holding 224 …

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