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- Australia’s domestic commercial vessel industry is eagerly awaiting maritime r...
- Lloyd’s of London has published research by think-tank Chatham House into the ...
- For very many years, operators of ships running in short sea trades around Europ...
- South Africa has some of the busiest ports on the continent but no commercial sh...
- The German parliament gave final approval to an extension of the European Union'...
- The sole aircraft carrier of the country INS Viraat on Friday completed 25 years...
- The Gladstone Observer says Australia's top scientific body has cast new doubt o...
- What is 418-feet long, costs millions to build and can move a crew of 110 men...
Lloyd’s of London has published research by think-tank Chatham House into the “unprecedented and disruptive change” currently underway in the Arctic region and its implications for shipping, as well as the industries and communities it serves. It suggests that the region is at point...
For very many years, operators of ships running in short sea trades around Europe have pointed to the obvious disparities in the level of bureaucracy they have been forced to endure when taking cargo across an “internal” EU border and the freedoms enjoyed by road hauliers. They point...
South Africa has some of the busiest ports on the continent but no commercial ships, but officials hope a new tax regime may give it an entry into the multi-billion-dollar industry. The flight of merchant ships from the national register started in the early 1980s, with companies...
The German parliament gave final approval to an extension of the European Union's anti-piracy operation off the Horn of Africa to include targeting equipment stored on Somali beaches, AFP reports. Lawmakers gave the green light to the expanded mission, with a majority from the ruling...
The sole aircraft carrier of the country INS Viraat on Friday completed 25 years of its active service with the Indian Navy.
The British warship- earlier known as HMS Hermes- was acquired by the Indian Navy On May 12, 1987 after completing 28 years under the Union Jack and having...
What is 418-feet long, costs millions to build and can move a crew of 110 men across the ocean at a speed of 28 knots? Until last month, the answer was the US Coast Guard’s newest security cutter, the STRATTON. That all changed in April, however, when sailors onboard the brand new,...
Wasting time and money on safety campaigns when every last cent has to be watched in one of the worst recessions in shipping might seem a perverse way of running a business. That, however, is what it seems some companies are doing, as their audience has already been convinced that...
FORAN, CAD/CAM software was selected for the entire design of the vessel “Spring Aeolian”, an 83,000 DWT bulk carrier considered the largest deadweight and cargo hold capacity PANAMAX bulkcarrier in the world.FORAN was devised and developed by SENER Ingeniera y Sistemas SA, the...
Bloomberg News reports that China Ocean Shipping (Group) Co., the nation’s biggest operator of dry-bulk ships, has said Vale SA (VALE3) was refusing to use its vessels in protest over a Chinese Government ban on the Brazilian miner’s mega-ships.
The state-owned company, known...
The newsletter of the Confederation of European Shipmasters’ Association has, over the past few years, been a useful indicator of what senior officers actually think about such matters as criminalisation and piracy. Sometimes it contains some gems such as an account, in a recent...
Salvors have made good progress through the week, although operations were suspended yesterday due to heavy swells around the wreck site making salvage activity unsafe. Svitzer advises the weather conditions are expected to be suitable for operations to resume...
TROUBLED Israeli container line Zim Integrated Shipping is in talks with Samsung Heavy Industries on a further delivery delays for a series of nine 12,552-TEU ships ordered back in 2007. A Zim spokesman has confirmed that the company was in discussions for a further delay of the...
The Navy’s largest ship sailed up the Thames in a show of military might to protect the Olympics. The commanding officer of HMS OCEAN, Captain Andrew Betton, told of his crew’s “pride” at taking part in the huge security operation for the Games.HMS OCEAN, which led the attacks...
Crew on British cruise holidays who are paid a basic salary of as little as 75p an hour face having extra tips from passengers withheld unless they hit performance targets. The boss of P&O Cruises said the move was part of a package to “make crew more responsive” and offer...
Shipping magnate John "Big Wolf" Fredriksen has quietly bought a dozen new, fuel efficient tanker vessels in recent months and said he may spend billions of dollars more as the global shipping crisis has created opportunities too good to pass up.
Norwegian-born Fredriksen, 67,...
Taking a serious view of the allegations that an ailing and contaminated US ship ORIENTAL NICETY has entered Indian shores to get its last rites done at Gujarat’s ship breaking grave yard, the Supreme Court has issued notices to the Union government and the shipping ministry to...
The operation of ships, it is universally acknowledged, is an “experience-based” business, whether it is knowing how to handle a ship in heavy weather or what to do when some technical emergency arises. It is important to have the theoretical knowledge, to be properly taught in...
Wasting time and money on safety campaigns when every last cent has to be watched in one of the worst recessions in shipping might seem a perverse way of running a business. That, however, is what it seems some companies are doing, as their audience has already been convinced that...
USNS Spearhead (JHSV 1), the innovative high-speed catamaran transport ship under construction by shipbuilder Austal in Mobile, Alabama, successfully completed Builder's Sea Trials (BST) on April 19 in the Gulf of Mexico. The trials encompassed over 50 demonstration events that...
Seven people have been killed in a violent gas explosion which hit a tugboat belonging to the Danish company Svitzer. The explosion occurred while the ship was in a large oil and gas field off the Middle Eastern oil state of Qatar, Qatar doing maintenance on a buoy that allowed...
The captain of the 'Nils Holgersson' is to be prosecuted for the ramming of the 'Urd' as it came into the ferry port of Travemünde in Lübeck, Germany last Thursday.
While luckily nobody was injured in the accident, the damage to the Urd is considerable, as the bulbous bow of Nils...
Japan's Imabari Shipbuilding has developed the Aero-Citadel, a newly designed superstructure that couples energy efficiency with anti-piracy measures.
Imabari's Aero-Citadel superstructure has a slim, streamlined shape that combines the ship's accommodations, engine room, and...
Bristling with cutting-edge technology and carrying an awesome array of weaponry, the Royal Navy’s new destroyer HMS Dauntless is said to be one of the world’s most sophisticated and powerful warships. But the £1 billion vessel was left helpless and stranded – when a £10 fuse...
On Friday the world’s largest ship running solely on the power of the sun cruised into Hercule Harbor in Monaco, officially completing the world’s first circumnavigation for a 100% solar powered ship.
The vessel, a 31m catamaran named MS Tûranor PlanetSolar, is equipped with 537...
Svitzer has continued to make good progress removing containers and debris from the Rena wreck over the past week.
Salvage Salvors have been cutting into containers to allow contents to be removed using the heavy lift helicopter. ·
Salvors have also this week focused on cutting...
The drive for the use of LNG as a marine fuel is gaining ground. The initiative was launched by Norway a decade ago and is now being taken up by its Northern European neighbours. Meanwhile, other parts of the world are monitoring what is happening in Europe and assessing the ability...
A series of errors contributed to the grounding of a nuclear-powered submarine off the west coast of Scotland more than two years ago, a report has found. HMS ASTUTE was on sea trials when it became stuck near Skye on October 22, 2010 and ended up marooned for several hours. Its...
The Arctic Ocean could open for regular commercial shipping within the next five to 10 years, according to a Canadian polar scientist who conducted research for the International Polar Year Conference. But while that may sound like welcome news for intercontinental commerce, the...
I was as interested as anyone to read last week’s Watchkeeper “Taking ECDIS very seriously” noting real-life incidents reported by pilots where the shipboard Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) failed to perform correctly. In fact I was probably more interested...
When Germany’s Container Flotten- Fonds filed for insolvency last year, more than 1,000 investors who had been promised annual returns of as much as 15 percent instead lost 37.5 million euros ( million).
The collapse of the fund, which was raised in 2005 and used a mix of private...
The Anatoki was a New Zealand-registered coastal cargo vessel on a short coastal voyage from Nelson to Tarakohe. The Anatoki departed Nelson at about midnight on 5 May 2010 and was due to arrive off Tarakohe at 0545 the next day.
On 6 May 2010 at about 0506 the Anatoki ran aground...
Latest figures from liner shipping information company Alphaliner suggest an improvement in the container ship industry. Alphaliner’s weekly newsletter says that the active boxship fleet is at its highest for some time. Alphaliner says that the active containership fleet has surged...
Tragic accidents, from the TITANIC, to the ESTONIA or the COSTA CONCORDIA, put ship safety in the spotlight," said EU Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas, setting out the European Commission's priorities for passenger ship safety at a meeting of stakeholders convened by the...
Svitzer salvors have made good progress in removing containers and cargo from Rena throughout the week.
SalvageDive operations to remove smaller pieces of debris and cargo have been undertaken. Divers are cutting into parts of the submerged stern section to gain access to...
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), which represents all sectors and trades and over 80% of the global shipping industry, and leads shipowner representation at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Legal Committee, has expressed strong support for the agreement...
Jumbo Shipping has confirmed the order for a second new K-class vessel, with an option on a third, to complement its existing fleet. After careful consideration and engineering study, Jumbo has decided to upgrade the lifting capacity of the vessels from 1,300 to 1,500mt,...
The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) says it has selected a 4-member panel of maritime and safety experts to provide an impartial assessment of the recommendations developed by the Cruise Industry Operational Safety Review, launched in January 2012 following the Costa...
The £1m boat that will the lead the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant has been launched on the river.
The 94ft (28.6m) royal barge Gloriana was escorted through the streets of London on the back of a truck. It had been transported from a unit in Brentford to Isleworth, west London,...
Costa Crociere has announced that it has chosen U.S-based Titan Salvage and the Italian firm Micoperi to remove the stricken Costa Concordia from Giglio Island, beating out several leading salvage companies vying for the illustrious contract.
Titan Salvage is an American-owned...
The US Navy is sending the USNS Mercy, one of its two hospital ships, on a goodwill mission to Southeast Asia next month, seeking to build partnership with regional militaries. The Military Sealift Command hospital ship will leave its San Diego homeport on May 1, to begin Pacific...
The Greek Shipping Co-operation Committee (GSCC) has confirmed that Liberia is the leading independent ship register of choice for Greek-controlled shipping companies, second only to the Greek flag itself.
Figures just released by the GSCC show that, in the year ended 31 March,...
THE London P&I Club has reported a growing incidence of shortcomings with regard to the condition of manhole cover gaskets on board ships. In the latest issue of its StopLoss Bulletin, the club says that feedback from its Ship Inspection Programme indicates that an increasing...
Good progress has been made on salvage activities this week.
Salvage Update Heli-lifts yesterday removed four 40ft empty containers which were put onto the Pohonui. Another vessel was filled with debris from 14 different containers, one 20ft container was filled with scrap Today’s...
From tracking icebergs in the Arctic to counting penguins in Antarctica, satellite technology continues to provide ever more detailed and accurate information about life – and its risks – on Earth.
Improvements in data-acquisition and more sophisticated software mean that even in...
In little more than three months we will see the carriage requirements for the Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) begin its phased introduction. ECDIS is a notable advance to be welcomed by all of those who believe that eNavigation is a step in the right...
The centenary of the sinking of the Titanic on Sunday 15th April is being attended with a curious combination of reverence and the absurd. On the centenary of her departure from Southampton a distinguished party of notables, along with some descendants of Titanic crew and passengers...
Danish oil and shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk (MAERSKb.CO) said on Monday partner and shipowner Maersk Mc- Kinney Moller died on April 16. The company's shares rose over 6 percent as analysts said Mc-Kinney Moller's death could lead to a stock split or demergers. Mc-Kinney Moller,...
Eleven employees claim in court that Maersk Line ignored warnings about Somali pirates and sailed too close to the Somali coast, where pirates kidnapped the crew. The eleven crewmembers sued Maersk Line and Waterman Steamship Corp., in three complaints in Mobile County Court. They...
The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), has established a Joint Industry Project (JIP) to investigate the operational feasibility of LNG bunkering in Singapore in collaboration with Det Norske Veritas (DNV) Clean Technology Centre and 21 industry partners.
The JIP,...
To some the superyacht market may be an alien world, however, over the last ten years, this niche industry has exploded. With dedicated, professional teams in place globally, every aspect of their creation, management and running is professionally catered for. Indeed, many naval and...
A month long “adventure cruise” to Antarctica and a number of remote South Atlantic islands took a turn for the worse earlier this week when the cruise ship M/V Plancius broke down, leaving passengers and crew stranded in the harsh South Atlantic.
According to a statement made by...
A flight by MNZ yesterday morning noted damage to the forward section bulkhead between No 2 and No 3 hold. It was evident that the bulkhead on the port side had failed and was open to the sea. This is expected given the gradual deterioration of the wreck and its exposure to the...
Gas has been a major topic of discussion at International Maritime Organization (IMO) in recent years and the results of these deliberations are now coming to fruition. At one level, the gas shipping industry has revamped its standards governing the design, construction and equipment...
In an age of high technology shipping and very large and powerful ships, we sometimes need reminding of the power of the sea. And there is a stark reminder contained in a single photograph in the latest edition of the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch Safety Digest. This does...
On the night of April 14-15, 1912, the R.M.S. Titanic struck an iceberg and sank with a loss of over 1500 lives. It was the greatest peacetime disaster in maritime history.
In the hundred years since, we have been assured that the victims of the tragedy did not die in vain. Thanks...
A giant iron-ore ship delivered last month to Vale SA (VALE3) fell 36 percent in value before loading its first cargo because prices for new dry-bulk commodity vessels collapsed after the carrier was ordered. The Vale Malaysia is worth .8 million, according to VesselsValue.com, an...
Every year fires on board ships lead to loss of lives and severe damage to the ships themselves. The majority of fires on board ships originate in the engine room and failure in a flammable oil system followed by impingement of oil onto a high temperature surface is the leading cause...
MITSUI OSK Lines is facing its largest loss in history of JPY27 billion (US[text].32 billion) despite stable profits and cost- cutting the company has fallen into the red, said its president Koichi Muto at a 128th anniversary speech. Factors such as the strong yen, high fuel prices, the...
As the world's shipping market slumped to its lowest point this year, ship owners have cut their spending on safety, resulting in a growing number of maritime accidents in recent months, maritime officials said. The Maritime Safety Administration has launched a three-month campaign...
When Marco Polo Seatrade BV, of the Netherlands, filed for bankruptcy in a U.S. court in July, lenders fought to get the case thrown out. While the company docks in ports around the globe, the lenders argued, its ties to the United States are limited to two small financial accounts....
Spring, and a young man’s fancy turns to some mind-broadening travel. Specifically, a fast lane-style flit between London, Singapore and Stamford, Connecticut to take the temperature of the shipping industry from geographically opposing but closely related points of view.
From the...
It is very easy for governments to suggest that nobody should ever contemplate the payment of ransoms to hostage takers of any kind, with pirates clearly falling into this category. They say that it plays into the pirates’ hands and on the ancient principle of “Danegeld” – the money...
The U.S. Coast Guard sank a Japanese fishing trawler off the coast of Alaska on Thursday, more than a year after it was swept away by a tsunami off the east coast of Japan, authorities said.The trawler capsized hours after the Coast Guard set fire to it, causing it to begin taking...
Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) has charged the owner of the cargo vessel Rena, following the ship's grounding on Astrolabe Reef off Tauranga on 5 October.
Greece-based Daina Shipping Co has been charged under section 338 (1B) and 15(B) of the Resource Management Act 1991, which relates...
After two months of speculation about what will be done with the wreck of the Costa Concordia, and with negotations still going on with salvage experts, it is now known that whoever gets the job will have to refloat the ship and tow it to its home port of Genoa in one piece. Salvage...
It's taken five years and a £50million restoration project, but now the world-famous Cutty Sark is almost ready to greet the public again.
Historically-minded tourists will be able to step aboard the vessel in Greenwich, South London from 26 April onwards, and individual tickets...
It is now six months since the modestly sized cellular containership Rena came to a sticky end on a well marked reef off the New Zealand Port of Tauranga. Approximately half the cargo has been taken off the ship or scraped off the bottom of the sea since the grounding, and with...
It’s been two unspeakably long years for whomever is left of the crew of the M/V Iceberg 1 since being hijacked by Somali pirates off the Yemeni coast. The Panamanian-flagged roll-on/roll-off ship was taken on March 29, 2010 and, at this point, is the longest-held vessel in...
The Smit Borneo departed the wreck on Saturday due to poor weather conditions, and is likely to remain in port this week due to forecast bad weather from Tuesday through until Sunday.
Salvage
The weather forecast for Astrolabe reef is for rough seas of up to 8m, peaking on...
Private security firms are storing their guns aboard floating armouries in international waters so ships that want armed guards for East Africa’s pirate- infested waters can cut costs and escape laws limiting the import and export of weapons. Companies and legal experts say the...
Developments and trends affecting buyers of specialty insurance lines, including D&O, E&O, employment practices liability, cyber risk, marine and transportation, and surplus lines. While overall shipping safety and the rate of ship losses have improved since the sinking of...
The Nautical Institute and the International Salvage Union (ISU) has launched Casualty Management Guidelines aimed at providing practical guidelines to help seafarers during a casualty, when demands can be confusing, contradictory, unclear or a combination of all three.
In the book...
SALVAGE crews working on the Singapore-flagged and owned 3,100-TEU BARELI, chartered to CMA CGM, say the ship that ran aground March 15 remains on the rocks off Fujian province across from northern Taiwan, but is in no danger of sinking.
There is no word from the Norwegian ship...
Greek shipowner Ilios Shipping Company S.A. was sentenced today in federal court in New Orleans to pay a fine of million for intentionally trying to cover-up oil pollution from one of its bulk carriers and obstruction of justice.
According to the Department of Justice release,...
Nearly a month after Rolls-Royce announced they had won a design order for an LNG powered fish food delivery ship, Norwegian ship owner Sølvtrans AS has awarded them another very unique ship design… a live fish transporter.
They fortunately won’t have to go faster than...
Shipowners must back not attack the index, says BIMCO
BIMCO has urged shipowners to support and make use of the Energy Efficiency Design Index, the tool that will become mandatory next year to reduce shipping’s CO2 emissions.
The index was hotly debated at the CMA Shipping 2012...
The amount of tonnage sent for demolition in 2011, 41.2m dwt, was the highest on record. However, this total is projected to be surpassed in 2012. This months Shipbuilding Focus looks at why the demolition market is set to experience a second consecutive year in which the volume of...
In a recent case an entered vessel pressed up its ballast tanks in order to optimise trim and to satisfy mandatory stability criteria. The operation resulted in the unexpected flooding of a cargo hold causing extensive damage to cargo.
An entered containership was carrying out...
A Japanese fishing boat, lost at sea last year after an earthquake and tsunami killed several thousand people, has been spotted off the coast of Vancouver, British Columbia, the authorities said.
The tsunami washed millions of tons of debris into the ocean on March 11, 2011, and...
The bodies of five more people killed when the Costa Concordia cruise ship sank were found Thursday, bringing to 30 the number of bodies located, Italian officials said.
Two of the roughly 4,200 originally aboard the cruise liner remain missing. The Costa Concordia, a ship belonging...
Heavy fuel oil – a petroleum product for which the long-term prospects are not good – is currently enjoying growing demand from two disparate sectors and causing headaches for oil refiners.
Oil companies are currently upgrading their refineries to reduce the percentage output of...
Heavy weather in the Bay of Plenty over the past couple of days has resulted in a further deterioration of the stern and forward section of Rena. This has resulted in a release of an unknown number of containers, and a debris field trailing from the wreck site, Maritime New Zealand...
A luxury cruise ship collided in deep fog with a container ship off Vietnam, punching a hole in the container ship and knocking passengers off their feet, a passenger told CNN Monday.
"The foghorn at the back of the ship had been going off consistently, throughout the morning,"...
* LNG shipping firm to run at or near full capacity for years
* Shipyards fully bookend through 2014
* Charter rates likely peaked but not big fall expected
Freight rates for liquefied natural gas, the super-cooled commodity in red hot demand as the world struggles to replace...
Refloating the stricken COSTA CONCORDIA cruise liner will cost "far beyond" €100m (£83m), according to a dredging and maritime services company bidding for the task.
The chief executive of Royal Boskalis Westminster said today that recovering the ship was "an operation without...
Guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) and U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Baranof (WPB 1318) rescued 24 Filipino mariners in Arabian Gulf, March 15.
At approximately 2 a.m., local time, John Paul Jones, assigned to Combined Maritime Forces’ Commander, Task Force 152,...
There is a great deal for operators to take on board with the arrival of the Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) which is such an integral part of the “e-navigation” world of the future. There is, of course, the requirement for people to be trained to use the...
Building on the success of the world’s first high temperature fuel cell power pack installation on board the OSV Viking Lady, the FellowSHIP project - a joint industry R&D project experimenting with fully integrated fuel cells on board vessels and offshore platforms – said...
The term “Ro/Pax” is used to define ferries, in which there is space for a substantial amount of freight, answering the very real ferry problem that while passenger demand might be seasonal, freight revenues can be depended upon throughout the year. Thus during the season, passenger...
General forecasts for the shipping industry in 2012 do not sound promising. As Simon Hartley, the head of shipping in Norton Rose, said for an interview for Reuters – the industry is facing many challenges on a number of fronts; from reduction in the amount of debt available to an...
The idle boxship fleet is expected to hit 1.1m teu by the end of 2012, Alphaliner forecasts. In its weekly report Alphaliner said the idle fleet stood 840,000 teu ot 5.4% of total slot capacity on 27 February.
A total of 12 ships over 8,000 teu were reported to be idle, with the...
The Vessel Master of the M/V Laconia pled guilty to operating a commercial vessel under the influence of alcohol on the Columbia River. Georgios Choulis pled guilty and was sentenced by the Honorable Marco Hernandez to one year probation and a 0 fine. Choulis is also prohibited...
An Italian cargo ship ran aground in rough weather off Sicily on Saturday, the coastguard said, adding that the 19 crew were taken off by helicopter and were safe amid worsening conditions. The 150-metre Gelso M was driven on to rocks as it was planning to approach the port of...
The Rena crew took several shortcuts as they rushed to reach Tauranga Harbour before hitting Astrolabe Reef last October, a report into the grounding has found.
A Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) report into the grounding of the container ship was released today...
In just two short years, Apple’s iPad has grown to dominate the world of tablet computing with over 48 million units sold. Apple has announced the third version of the unit, the iPad HD, so gCaptain wanted to take a minute to look at the best software options for the device....
High levels of unemployment among young people in the UK and other parts of Europe are being tackled by government policies that do not always work as intended.
The latest approach to meet reality head-on and not survive intact has been that in the UK, which sought to place...
Disasters, like buses, have a nasty habit of coming along in numbers and there must be a certain sympathy for the poor Costa brand, with the somewhat scorched Costa Allegra sitting disabled and sans electrical power in the Seychelles as her passengers recount stories of their ordeal...
There is little doubt that Tonnage Tax, as implemented by those governments which have accorded such a regime to their shipping industries, has been beneficial. At best it has been a commitment by government that the taxation regime will not fluctuate wildly over a reasonable period,...
The great days of the shipping industry in Brazil were gone a long time ago. Big shipping lines went bankrupt, Brazilian-flagged ships were sold, arrested, abandoned or scrapped, and shipyards had little to no service and were forced to close or stay afloat with minor repairs and...
An Italian judge will order the examination of the Costa Concordia’s black box today in the first pre-trial hearing into the cruise-ship wreck that killed at least 25 people.Judge Valeria Montesarchio will ask court experts to use digital recordings to ascertain the “actual dynamic...
Scores of passengers from an Italian cruise ship stricken by a fire in the Indian Ocean have returned to Rome, Paris and Vienna, saying they were happy to put an unpleasant experience behind them.
Cruise operator Costa Crociere laid on the flights from the Seychelles for...
The heavy weather event forecast to hit the North Island overnight and tomorrow is expected to bring heavy seas to the Bay of Plenty. The forecast is for winds gusting up to 50 knots, and sea swells of over 5m on Saturday. The weather is forecast to ease on Sunday.
Salvage
As a...
The news in recent weeks that the world’s population has passed the seven billion mark caught everyone’s attention. The first question that springs to mind is how did we get here so fast? Since hitting three billion in 1960, the number of people on the planet has increased by a...
Shipping industry has mixed reaction towards outcome of UK Somalia Conference, and cautions against any move to ban ransom payments to pirates
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) – the principal international trade association for shipowners representing all sectors and...
The Captain of a Maltese freighter was taken into custody by Coast Guard officials in Astoria, Oregon on Tuesday 28 February.
The Captain of the 738-foot motor vessel Laconia was taken into custody after his blood-alcohol level was found to be in excess of the legal limit for...
The Master and Second Officer of the cargo vessel Rena today pleaded guilty to 10 out of the 11 charges laid by Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) against the men following an investigation into the ship's grounding on the Astrolabe Reef off Tauranga on 5 October.
MNZ charged the Master and...
Stricken Italian cruise ship Costa Allegra is being towed to the main island in the Seychelles after a plan to tow it to a nearer island was scrapped.
An engine room fire on the Costa Allegra knocked out its main power supply on Monday, leaving the 1,000 people onboard stranded in...
Companies likely to cancel '07-08 deals as prices have fallen
As many as 50 per cent of commodity carriers on order at yards worldwide may never be built after 56 per cent of new dry-bulk vessels didn't enter service in January as scheduled, according to Genco Shipping & Trading...
Troubled shipping companies face the threat of seizures of their vessels as banks lose patience with an industry struggling with overcapacity and falling demand, industry players say. Banks have been fairly supportive until now, providing extensions such as last week's lifeline to...
The new aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) is the largest and most expensive ship in the U.S. Navy’s shipbuilding program, with a total price tag to develop and build the ship topping billion. And the cost is rising for the ship, the first of a new class of...
A cruise ship run by the owners of the Costa Concordia is adrift in the Indian Ocean, with more than 1,000 passengers and crew stranded after a fire in the ship's engine room.
Costa Cruises said no injuries had been reported on the Costa Allegra after the blaze, which was put out...
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The Royal Navy's next generation of support tankers is to be built in South Korea, it was announced.
Defence Equipment Minister Peter Luff said Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering has been chosen as the Government's preferred bidder to build the four 37,000 tonne vessels...
Danish carrier won't deploy 18,000 TEUs of capacity on Asia-Europe trade lane
The decision by Maersk Line not to exercise an option to order another 10 mega-containerships with capacities of 18,000 20-foot equivalent units was no surprise considering overcapacity on the Asia-Europe...
A new 250m container ship will run with just a crew of nine
Boaters who say they need help to run their boats should consider themselves lucky - a huge new container ship that has just entered service is expected to be operated by a total complement of just nine men. The...
24 February 2012 - 12.00pm554 containers have now been recovered from Rena by Svitzer salvors and received ashore by the Braemar Howells container processing teams. A further 71 containers have been recovered from the water and shoreline - making a total of 625 now accounted for...
Pity the poor ship owner; not only must he cope with freight rates below operating costs while struggling to service debt repayments, but at the same time he must conform with a series of highly challenging regulatory mandates.
Perhaps the sympathy should be tempered – after all,...
It is a tragedy, of course it is. A pair of Indian fishermen working aboard their little craft did not deserve to be shot dead by armed security guards on an Italian tanker. Assuming that they were indeed fishermen and doing exactly what fishermen are supposed to do, it is sad and...
“Integrity, professionalism and transparency – the hallmarks of a good surveyor” is the headline in the latest International Human Element Bulletin Alert! an issue which is largely devoted to the qualities required by those whose job it is to supervise and audit the technology of the...
The Panama Canal revolutionised trade when it opened its locks for business in 1914; and the expansion of this dramatic cross-continent cut is set to do the same in just two years time. While the .25bn expansion project has been a long-time coming, the end is now in sight and...
The flight decks that once thundered and boomed with jet aircraft are silent. The passageways and compartments where thousands of sailors worked, ate and slept are empty. The once meticulously swept and kept decks are worn and torn, some covered in bird droppings. The names of the...
Wallem Ship Management in Hong Kong has ordered DNV Navigator for its managed fleet of more than 190 ships. The contract also includes the Work and Rest Hours module allowing for compliance with international legislation on rest hours for seafarers. DNV Navigator is a dedicated...
China's fast-modernizing navy is stepping up training for anti-piracy patrols off the coast of Somalia in a sign of its growing long-term commitment to overseas missions. The first two-week course for 84 leading officers began this week at the Naval Command College in the eastern...
Eight more bodies, including a five-year-old Italian girl, were found in the wreck of the Costa Concordia as Europe’s biggest cruise ship operator was caught up on Wednesday in the probe into the tragedy.Three managers of Costa Crociere received formal notifications that they were...
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Grand China is facing fresh lawsuits from Denmark-based Norden and Germany-based Oldendorff Carriers, court documents showed. Norden claimed that Grand China and its affiliates have breached some .27m on maritime contracts, notably for not paying the agreed daily charter hire of...
Shipping billionaire John Fredriksen spent about $ 610 million to buy new vessels and indicated he may make more purchases this year, a sign that a plunge in prices might be near an end, Bloomberg reports. Fredriksen ordered six oil- product tankers from STX Offshore &...
A joint trade union week of action in the North Sea offshore (oil and gas) sector to stamp out ‘social dumping’ in the sector has found evidence of the exploitation and humiliation of Romanian workers in the port of Hartlepool, the organisers allege.
The week of action was launched...
A delegation of Japan’s Ship-owner’s Association met Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Monday 13 February and held discussions about the Japanese government’s proposed project to convert the Alang-Sosiya Ship-breaking yard into an international-level ship recycling yard, DNA...
A recent case saw one of our Member vessels hijacked twice within a ten week period. On both occasions the ship was loaded with a cargo of petroleum and was drifting off Lagos waiting her turn to lighter.
Acts of piracy and armed robbery off West African states contrast greatly...
The Israel Corporation and other companies under the control of Idan Ofer have yet to pour the 0 million safety net they pledged into the group's shipping company ZIM, Calcalist has learned. The funds were to be poured into the company pursuant to the provisions of the debt...
The global cruise industry has announced a new emergency drill policy requiring mandatory muster for embarking passengers prior to departure from port. The new policy follows the industry's announcement on January 27 of a Cruise Industry Operational Safety Review in response to the...
Spare a thought for the shipyards. Amid all the hand-wringing and soul-searching by ship owners bemoaning their terrible lot, there have been fewer analyses of the prospects for shipyards, or indeed their performance in recent years.
Such a task has been completed by Paul Millbank...
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PRESS RELEASE: 22nd February 2010
Old boys and their memories to gather for the 150th anniversary of HMS WorcesterThe 150th anniversary of the founding of the longest-serving navy cadet training ship in Britain, ‘HMS Worcester’, takes place in June 2012. More than 500 Old Worcesters...
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