The more we move into an age of technology driving the shipping industry, the less we will need seafarers and the more we will come to rely entirely on IT to keep the ships sailing. Now pick the truth from the fiction in that lot and then decide if ...

The Port of Amsterdam will soon get a new factory that will be able to convert unrecyclable plastic into fuel for ships. The processing of plastic waste is expected to cut CO₂ emissions by 57,000 tons per year, compared to today’s manner of waste ...

Cost growth returned to seafaring in 2018 and is projected to accelerate moderately on recovering vessel earnings and continued shortfall in officer numbers, shipping consultancy Drewry said. Manning costs have risen moderately in 2018 following ...

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. Friday announced that the Ice-Breaking LNG Carrier Vladimir Rusanov, which is jointly owned by MOL and China COSCO Shipping Corporation Limited (China COSCO Shipping), has successfully arrived at the Bering Strait. The ...

It is as efficient as a nuclear-powered icebreaker, says the oil company Gazprom Neft as it raises the flag on its new vessel. The “Aleksandr Sannikov” is 121 meter long and able to break through two-meter thick ice. It will assist tankers shuttling ...

U.S. carrier Matson christened the largest containership ever built in the United States in a ceremony at the Philly Shipyard on Saturday, June 30. The new vessel is named ‘Daniel K. Inouye’ in honor of Hawaii’s late senior U.S. Senator, who was a ...

The ongoing trade war between the major world powers led by the United States and its new tariff policy is a speeding train, accelerating with every trade-restrictive retaliatory measure imposed and becoming ever more difficult to stop, BIMCO ...

In the early morning hours of Thursday, June 28th, a longeshoreman and a chief mate died at the Port of Longview. The accident happened as one of the vessel lines of the 'MV ANSAC Splendor' snapped and was thrown back toward both the dock and the ...

The ordeal of the fire-stricken merchant vessel SSL Kolkata, operated by Shreyas Shipping and Logistics Limited, is far from over. Namely, following the explosion and a fire that took place on June 13 in the ship’s cargo area, forcing its 22 crew ...

Concern about ballast-mediated bio invasions into freshwater, estuarine and marine habitats is not limited to biodiversity, but extends to its broader socioeconomic impacts on agriculture, forests, fisheries, aquaculture, and other human activities ...

Skangas has supplied Furetank’s chemical/product tanker M/T Fure Vinga with liquefied biogas (LBG), representing the company’s first delivery of this renewable and environmentally friendly fuel to a marine company. The fueling took place at the ...

Maersk Line’s containership, which picked up 113 migrants in international waters between Libya and Malta on Friday, has berthed at Pozzallo, Italy, disembarking distressed people. Following the instructions by the Maritime Response Coordination ...

With the presentation of the RSD Tug 2513, on the 25th June at the ITS 2018 in Marseille, France, Damen introduces its next generation ship-handling tugs. Composed of a mix of new designs and a further evolution of existing designs, this next ...

Scots ship owner who steered his firm through choppy waters      SIR IAN DENHOLM, who has died aged 91, was the scion of a famous British shipping family and a world leader in good ship management. John Ferguson Denholm, always called Ian, was ...

The Paris MoU Committee has adopted new performance lists for flags and recognized organizations (ROs), moving Ukraine to the Black List from the Grey List. In addition, the Republic of Korea has been moved back to the White List after one year on ...

An autonomous ship model has been successfully tested in Aker Arctic's ice model test laboratory in Helsinki, Finland. In the demonstration test, the ship model was able to detect obstacles in the ice tank utilizing onboard sensors, maneuver around ...

Twenty two sailors were rescued from a burning ship in the Bay of Bengal after a massive, coordinated effort by the Indian Coast Guard, the Navy and Kolkata Port Trust. The ship, called MV SSL Kolkata, has been abandoned and is currently adrift and ...

Poor safety culture and ineffective implementation of safety management system were identified as the probably causes of the 2016 fire aboard the RoRo vessel Caribbean Fantasy. The vessel’s main engine room was hit by fire in the morning hours of ...

Wilhelmsen Ships Service is partnering with Airbus to shore-to-ship drone delivery to one of the busiest ports in the world, Singapore. Launching at Singapore port's Marina South Pier in third quarter 2018, the Agency by Air project will pilot the ...

The shipping sector recently took a giant leap toward decarbonisation as the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) member states agreed on the requirement which would see the industry reduce its emissions by at least 50 pct by 2050 compared to ...

Greek ship owners saw a major fleet development in the ten years from the financial crisis and today operate a fleet valued at USD 99.8 billion. These owners expanded their control of the world fleet from a 13% to a 17% share, representing some 218 ...

An EU-funded research project which aims to create conditions for autonomous vessel navigation is in its Concept Definition phase and will move on to the Technology Adaption and Integrations Work Package (WP03) this summer, Kongsberg said. Hull to ...

Maritime lawyers at Lipcon, Margulies, Alsina & Winkleman have filed two wrongful death cases from the Norwegian Cruise Line lifeboat collapse that took place in the summer of 2016. Almost two years ago, the crew aboard the Norwegian Breakaway was ...

US Senator Roger Wicker, Chairman of the Senate Seapower Subcommittee and a member of the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety and Security, today introduced the “Energising American Shipbuilding ...

Today 22 May is National Maritime Day ­– a day that has been celebrated for the past 85-years. The United States is, and always has been, a maritime nation. From the very founding of our country, the American maritime industry has served a critical ...

The remaining crew members of the abandoned tanker Qaaswa were finally repatriated in late April after spending almost a year off Tunisia. According to the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), the seafarers and their vessel were ...

Shipping containers. Typical ones are a standardized size of 40ft (12.2m) by 8ft by 8.5ft and have the name of the owner painted in enormous lettering on the side. So hard to miss. The question, then, is how do you lose a million of them? That’s ...

A total of fifty-three bulk carriers over 10,000 dwt have been identified as total losses over the past ten years, according to the latest edition of International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners’ (Intercargo) Bulk Carrier Casualty Report. A ...

KLAW LNG said, “LNG Bunkering is the practice of providing liquefied natural gas fuel to a ship for its own conumption. The key advantage of LNG as a fuel is the vast reduction in pollutant caused by the more traditional method of fuelling ships ...

The cause of the fatal collision between Iranian tanker Sanchi and the Hong Kong-flagged bulker CF Crystal in January this year was the bulker’s changing of direction minutes before the crash, the Iranian Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) ...

At 0304:40 on 1 July 2017, two Hong Kong registered vessels, the bulk carrier Huayang Endeavour and the oil tanker Seafrontier, collided in the Dover Strait approximately 5 nautical miles to the west of Sandettie Bank. Both vessels were damaged in ...

Norwegian cruise ferry operator Hurtigruten has signed a letter of intent with Rolls-Royce for a major environmental upgrade programme to LNG and battery hybrid power. The main engines on up to nine cruise ships will switch from diesel to gas ...

16 crew members of the Bahrain-flagged containership Avonmoor have received their wages and returned home to Ukraine after being abandoned for four months in Morocco, International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) said. The seafarers were ...

Panama-flagged bulk carrier Ever Judger is likely to have caused the breakup of the undersea pipe which resulted in the massive oil spill in East Kalimantan, Indonesia, on March 31. Before the incident, the 82,000 dwt bulk carrier was the only ...

Eco Marine Power (EMP) unveiled today its plan to widen the scope of the Aquarius Eco ShipTM project and invite other companies to join this innovative low-emissions ship design initiative. As part of this plan a wider range of technologies will be ...

Each year roughly 60,000 ships vital to the global economy sail through the Indian Ocean past a Chinese-operated port on the southern tip of Sri Lanka. Almost none of them stop to unload cargo.The eight-year-old Hambantota port -- with almost no ...

Viking Line’s passenger ship M/S Viking Grace has been fitted with a rotor sail for the utilization of wind power, becoming the world’s first passenger ship to feature the technology. The Rotor Sail Solution, developed by the Finnish company ...

The Bosporus Strait was closed to maritime transit traffic after a 225-meter-long Malta-flagged bulk carrier crashed into a historic waterfront mansion in the Anadoluhisarı area on Saturday after its rudder got stuck, causing substantial ...

A 187m long passenger/ro-ro cargo ferry carrying in excess of 400 passengers and crew was approaching a regular port in daylight. The bridge team were preparing to commence their arrival manoeuvre, which, once inside the breakwaters, involved ...

Wilhelmsen and KONGSBERG are joining forces to take the next step in autonomous shipping by offering a complete value chain for autonomous ships, from design and development, to control systems, logistics services and vessel operations. "As a ...

As vanishing Arctic ice makes it increasingly difficult to uphold research activities in the highest Arctic, Russia moves ahead with plans to build a research platform for the region. The projected self-propelled platform will have top-level ice ...

The Government of India has blacklisted two companies from United Arab Emirates (UAE) for seafarer abandonment. The companies in question are shipping and management firm Shah Al Arab Marine Agency and M/s Alco Shipping Services LLC, the ...

Nautilus Minerals Inc. (Nautilus) announces that its production support vessel was today launched at the Mawei shipyard in China. The vessel will be used by Nautilus and its partner, Eda Kopa (Solwara) Limited at the Solwara 1 Project site, in the ...

The Danish Coast Guard has published images showing the extent of damages sustained by the two ships that collided on Tuesday, March 27, in the Great Belt strait in Denmark. The ships involved in the collision have been identified as 1,924 TEU ...

South Korean Polaris Shipping, which was in the center of media attention after several of its converted bulkers reported hull deficiencies last year, has been found to have made 22 unauthorized modifications to one of its ships. Namely, a special ...

    •    Symphony of the Seas was handed over by French shipbuilder STX to US giant Royal Caribbean International    •    The ship cost £959m ($1.35bn), weighs 228,000 tonnes and is 362 metres (1,188 feet) long    •    Built over two years, the ...

One crew member was found dead and 14 others, most of them Chinese, were missing Wednesday after a sand-dredging vessel capsized off Malaysia, with some believed trapped alive inside the sunken hull. The Coast Guard said authorities in the southern ...

More Arctic sea ice is entering the North Atlantic Ocean than before, making it increasingly dangerous for ships to navigate those waters in late spring, according to new research. The new research finds ocean passages typically plugged with ice in ...

For centuries shipping depended on wind, but the industrial revolution changed that. Vessels were no longer stuck in the doldrums. However, with the Paris Climate Agreement in mind, shipping companies are looking at wind again for efficiency ...

A cruise for non-cruisers that's "an epic sea change" from what's currently available: that's what Virgin Voyages -- the latest brand helmed by business mogul Richard Branson -- aims to offer when it launches in 2020. During the State of the ...

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. today announced the delivery of the first car carrier of the next-generation "FLEXIE" series, the Beluga Ace, which was built at the Minaminippon Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. The new vessel marks a major advance in ...

Rotterdam District Court today sentenced Groningen-based owner Seatrade for illegal exports of vessels sent for scrapping on beaches of South Asia as the company’s move breached the EU Waste Shipment Regulation. Seatrade has been fined with EUR ...

A huge offshore accommodation module has been loaded at the outer Gothenburg Port area. The eight-storey construction is currently standing on a barge awaiting transport to an oil rig in the North Sea. The object that were shipped via the Port of ...

SummaryOn 20 November 2016 at about 0850, the general cargo ship Saga Sky collided with the rock carrying barge Stema Barge II approximately 2 miles off the south coast of the UK. Both vessels had been affected by adverse weather conditions created ...

Despite precautionary measures, the fractured hull of the stricken containership Kea Trader did not endure the impact of the latest cyclone off New Caledonia in the south Pacific. Namely, the cyclone Hola, which swept through the region over the ...

Maritime maintenance is changing fast. The industry is moving away from costly forms of traditional maintenance towards smarter condition-based maintenance, otherwise known as ‘predictive maintenance’. This development is facilitated by the ...

An accident involving a United States warship and an oil tanker, which occurred in Singapore waters last August and left 10 people dead, was brought on by a “sudden turn” made by the warship. Less than three minutes later, the American ...

Tuesday afternoon, the Maersk Honam reported a serious fire in one of its cargo holds. 23 crew members have been successfully evacuated and search and rescue operations are ongoing for four crew members currently reported missing. Tuesday 6 March ...

Rolls-Royce has unveiled a sophisticated situational awareness system that fuses multiple sensors with intelligent software to mitigate against the safety risks navigators face when operating vessels at night, in adverse weather conditions or in ...

The first female captain has taken the helm of the AIDAsol cruise ship, pertaining to Carnival’s Germany-based AIDA Cruises brand, making her the highest-ranking woman on a cruise ship in Germany. Nicole Langosch, aged 34, is the first female ...

About 70 cargo containers fell off of a giant containership on Saturday night, February 3, about 17 miles off Oregon Inlet, North Carolina. The Liberia-flagged Maersk Shanghai, featuring 10,081 TEU, informed the watchstanders at Sector North ...

Ro-ro cargo ship PRIMULA SEAWAYS and container ship MSC MADRID collided at around 0330 LT Mar 3 in front of Vissingen, both ships were proceeding in the same direction: MSC MADRID to Antwerp, PRIMULA SEAWAYS to Ghent. PRIMULA SEAWAYS said to ...

Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. said Sunday it will use robots to build ships for the first time in the industry to improve efficiency and cut costs. The world’s largest shipbuilder has recently completed a year of testing of a robotic system that ...

Booming demand for expedition ships should not mean that good and safe shipbuilding practices for passenger vessels are compromised, according to naval architecture and engineering company Foreship. The lack of consistency in the initial designs ...

Sea World Management & Trading, Inc. and Edmon Fajardo were convicted today for maintaining false and incomplete records relating to the discharge of oil and garbage from an oil tanker that was operating off the coast of Texas, announced Acting ...

Reefer vessels operator Baltic Reefers took over from Seatrade as the top conventional reefer ship operator with a capacity share of 12.4%. Baltic Reefers, including its separately operating subsidiary Cool Carriers, is for the first time the ...

Sold to the Brazilian Navy for around £84M, the profit generated from the sale will be reinvested in defence at a time when the Royal Navy is being strengthened with two types of brand new frigates and two huge aircraft carriers. HMS Queen ...

The world’s largest container company will start looking for takeover targets outside the shipping industry as it tries to pre-empt a new competitive landscape in which customers are morphing into rivals.Jakob Stausholm, A. P. Moller-Maersk A/S’s ...

Chinese seaborne imports of iron ore and crude oil have reached the highest levels ever recorded in 2017, benefiting the dry bulk and tanker sectors. The total amount of seaborne import of iron ore reached 1,054 million tonnes breaking the record ...

The Dutch Public Prosecution Service has brought criminal charges against Groningen-based owner Seatrade for having sold vessels to scrap yards in countries with poor working conditions and substandard environmental practices. This is the first ...

A complete transformation of how ports operate is on the horizon, according to Bret Greenstein, Vice President of Watson Internet of Things (IoT), Consumer Offerings, IBM.Over the past few years, IBM has partnered up with industry majors such as ...

While trawling for Patagonian toothfish around Heard Island, a crew member in his twenties got knocked overboard into two-degree Celsius waters while leaning out over the rail to hook up the sweep wire to the trawl door. He was in the water for ...

Danish shipping giant Maersk Line reported a net profit of USD 584 million in 2017, against a net loss of USD 376 million seen a year earlier. The company’s revenue for the year increased by 14.9% to USD 23.8 billion, from USD 20.7 billion reported ...

An ideal alternative to break bulk for the transportation of liquids which optimally preserves the product’s properties CMA CGM, a world leader in maritime transport, is pleased to announce, on the occasion of the 2018 edition of FRUIT LOGISTICA in ...

Dr Grahaeme Henderson, President of the UK Chamber, last night launched HiLo, a predictive modelling tool for accident prevention in shipping. "Our shipping industry has a fatal accident rate 20 times that of the average British worker and five ...

Hyundai Mipo Dockyard (HMD) is scheduled to deliver the world’s first ballast free LNG bunkering vessel later this year. The 7,600m³ vessel was ordered by Germany-based Bernhard Schulte Ship management in late 2016 and is currently under ...

To address the evolving safety and security needs of modern ports, Vancouver based naval architects and marine engineers Robert Allan Ltd., and international marine technology specialist Kongsberg Maritime are collaborating on the development of a ...

The Andaman Islands are an Indian archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. There are roughly 300 islands, which are known for their palm-lined, white-sand beaches, mangroves and tropical rainforests. However, it was the deep and protected water that ...

More than 400 extra cadets will be trained in maritime roles every year thanks to a GBP 15 million (USD 21.2 million) funding boost announced by the UK government today. The investment, which will double the support for young people to GBP 30 ...

Even in the years following the recession, many Dutch (and other European) shipyards were facing rough seas, due to the global recession and low-cost competition from Asia. In the Netherlands particularly, all shipyards involved in offshore ...

An oil tanker with 22 Indians onboard is presumed to be missing off Benin coast in the Gulf of Guinea near West Africa, the Ministry of External Affairs said. The missing merchant vessel is owned by  Mumbai-based Anglo Eastern shipping company. MEA ...

The Dutch company Port-Liner is switching to the construction of all-electric freight vessels for inland shipping. The aim is for the first vessel to be put into operation in August of this year. The Tilburg logistics company GVT Group will operate ...

ICTSI South Pacific International Container Terminal (SPICT), a subsidiary of global operator International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI), has commenced operations at the Lae Tidal Basin (LTB) in Lae, Papua New Guinea. SPICT recently ...

With support from a number of partners in India, ISWAN ( International Seafarer’s Welfare and Assistance Network) is launching a new campaign to discourage Indian seafarers from signing up with crewing agencies which have not registered with the ...

Miami-based cruise liner conglomerate Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd has reported a full year US GAAP and adjusted earnings of USD 1.63 billion, a growth of 23.8 percent year-over-year. The 2017 full year result beat the January 2017 mid-point ...

Denmark has moved up taking the sixth place on the list of the world’s major shipping nations with regards to operated tonnage, Danish Maritime Authority said citing data from IHS Markit. Denmark has overtaken Germany and advanced to the sixth ...

The CEO of Hapag-Lloyd, the world’s fifth-largest container shipping company, expects consolidation in the sector to continue this year, further reducing the number of largest shipping firms as they merge their businesses. Talking to the reporters ...

All seafarers working in UK waters must be paid at least minimum wage rates, the UK government warned in new guidance published today. The campaign is being pursued on the back of reports that some ships registered abroad were underpaying their ...

Five officers involved in two Navy ship collisions last year that killed a total of 17 sailors are being charged with negligent homicide, the Navy said Tuesday. A Navy spokesman, Capt. Greg Hicks, said the charges, which also include dereliction of ...

The government of Turkey has released the finalized route for a second shipping channel between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara, parallel to the Bosporus Strait. The new waterway - to be known as Kanal Istanbul - would increase capacity for ...

Norsafe has recently developed a modern, Partially Enclosed Lifeboat (PELB) providing a secure and protected means of escape for persons on-board passenger vessels. The SOLAS compliant Minima 88 is a compact 8.8m long boat with a width of 4.25m for ...

Yesterday at 2 pm, the barge with the two impressive foundations of 10,000 tonnes and 8,000 tonnes, destined for the Danish offshore wind farm Kriegers Flak, has left the port of Ostend in Belgium – an important milestone of this project. The barge ...

Ultra Large Container Ship MSC ELOANE at night Jan 5 reported to MRCC Spain loss of 30 – 45 containers, which went overboard some 40 nm off Galician coast, Spain, Atlantic coastline. Containers were lost in rough weather, heavy seas prevent ...

Thirty-two crew members, including 30 Iranians and two Bangladeshis, have gone missing after two vessels collided off China's east coast on Saturday evening, China's Ministry of Transport said Sunday. The collision, between a Panama-registered oil ...

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A 'crazy' artificial island in the North Sea that could supply renewable energy to 80 million people in Europe is set to open in 2027. Plans for the 2.3 square mile (6 square km) landmass suggest it will be surrounded by fields of offshore wind ...

Towage services provider KOTUG has applied for a patent to use drone technology in its tug operations in an effort to achieve “safer and more efficient working conditions”. “This … invention – using a drone to connect the towline to an assisted ...

The cruise ship Celebrity Infinity allided with a berth in Alaska in June 2016 due to the master’s failure, according to the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Following an investigation into the incident, the NTSB determined that the ...

Two pilot cutter operators, employees of Finnish Finnpilot Pilotage, died on December 10 after their vessel L 242 overturned outside of Emäsalo island, in Southern Finland. Despite the Border Guard’s efforts to right the overturned vessel, it sank ...

When the cargo ship El Faro set out from port in Jacksonville, Fla., en route to Puerto Rico, there was little indication of trouble. A gathering weather system named Joaquin was still just a tropical storm. But within days, Joaquin had swelled into ...