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In the NI Ferry Site blog we take a look at issues and stories across the wider ferry industry, as well as publish articles that don’t fit neatly into one of the other sections of the site.
Site update – some problems
So this is about the 4th attempt today to post this update, hopefully it will work this time. Â Firstly I want to apologise for the lack of updates. Â Unfortunately I have been unwell, and had a minor operation a couple of weeks ago resulting in an infection. Â Thankfully I am on the mend now but the site has also been having technical problems during June meaning I couldn’t access the admin panel to post anything! Â This now appears to have been resolved after I edited some of the php code manually and disabled some of t he plugins. Â Over the next day or so things might move around or lag a bit as I try to get everything running as normal again. I have added a couple of posts today (including a new video from P&O) and created a new Facebook book to replace the Facebook page which is ... Read more
Temporary unavailability of some pictures
Due to continued theft of his work, Scott Mackey has taken the very difficult decision to make his flickr albums private. Â The alternative to this was to delete all 6 years of work and 10,000+ photographs, effectively taking the vast majority of his work offline. As a result of this decision (which I fully support) the pictures on this site which are linked to flickr will no longer work. Â I hope to restore these pictures over the coming week, and Scott has kindly agreed that his work can be continued to be displayed on this site. Â However, I will be adding a (subtle) central watermark to all pictures uploaded to the site from now on as theft of digital images is a big problem for many photographers at present, with unauthorised reproductions being sold on eBay for example. Â Unfortunately watermarking on the edges of the frame has proven ineffective as ... Read more
Site updates March 2014 to date
So it’s the first real update of March and its a big one! Â At last I have managed to get around to writing the updates I have been planning for the last couple of weeks. Â So in no particular order, this is what has been added over the past few days. Seatruck Power and Seatruck Progress profile added – although they don’t currently operate to Northern Ireland, Seatrucks policy of moving ships around to cover charters means they likely will do a some stage in the future wether for Seatruck themselves or another operator. Stena Hibernia profile added. This completes the profiles for the current Stena Line fleet. P&O’s Express profile added, so the local P&O fleet is now complete Pictures added to Stena Precision and Stena Performer page. Started adding brief operator profiles (not yet accessible). Added section at the bottom of routes and operators page for ships which ... Read more