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‘Floating book fair’ Doulos Hope launched

‘Floating book fair’ Doulos Hope launched

May sees maritime charity GBA Ships launch its latest “floating book fair”, Doulos Hope. The vessel was originally built by the now defunct Flender Werft yard in Germany in 1991, and acquired by GBA Ships in May 2022 and refitted to meet the charity’s requirements. Since the launch of its first repurposed vessel, Logos, in […]

Scope for change

Scope for change

February saw the launch of the report Safety of Domestic Ferries – A Scoping Study of 7 Countries, based on research conducted by World Maritime University representatives including Anish Hebbar, Serdar Yildiz, Nadhir Kahlouche and Jens-Uwe Schröder-Hinrichs. The team’s research was funded by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation and supported by Interferry, the Worldwide Ferry Safety […]