After hundreds of reader request followed by months of negotiation, pleading and many thank you's gCaptain has officially acquired our proper name on Instagram and we have started scouring the internet for the world's best ship photos! Of course gCaptain has been published the best ship photos for years right here on gCaptain.com and on our facebook page but … [Read more...]
Ship Photos of the Day – Cargo Loading at Brazil’s New Tiplam Terminal
Today's ship photos show employees working to load a soybean cargo aboard the ship Krypos Land at the Tiplam terminal in Santos, Brazil, Merch 13, 2017. The 2.2 billion reais ($694 million) Tiplam terminal in Latin America's largest port started operations at a new berth in January and will ramp-up loadings with a second berth at the end of March or early … [Read more...]
SPOTD – Rolls-Royce Unified Bridge Aboard The Stril Luna
Today's Ship Photo Of The Day (SPOTD) shows the platform supply vessel Stril Luna at work in the oil fields off Norway. When Stril Luna was delivered from the Astilleros Gondán shipyard in Spain to its owner Simon Møkster Shipping in 2014, it was the first vessel to feature the Unified Bridge concept from Rolls-Royce. Three years in development, the Unified Bridge … [Read more...]
SPOTD: Orange Ocean – Juiced On The High Seas
Today's Ship Photo Of The Day (SPOTD) is Atlanship's refrigerated juice carrier Orange Ocean. Atlanship SA, founded in 1982, is a Swiss shipping company headquartered in Lausanne that specializes in transporting refrigerated fresh and concentrated orange juice. The company moves orange juice on behalf of Cutrale, which provides one in four glasses of … [Read more...]
SPOTD: What Might Be The Most Formidable Ferry Ever
HSC Manannan is a 96-metre wave-piercing high-speed catamaran car ferry built in Tasmania in 1998. She served in Australia and New Zealand for five years and is now owned and operated by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company - the oldest continuously operating passenger shipping company in the world - providing seasonal service between Douglas and Liverpool. But between 2001 and … [Read more...]