The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) inspectors have helped seafarers recover nearly $45 million (N15.6 billion) in owed wages last year while cases of ship abandonments nearly doubled to a record high. They have conducted more ...

Partners in the TrAM (Transport – Advanced and Modular) project have announced that construction of the world’s first fully electric passenger fast ferry has begun at the Fjellstrand shipyard in Norway. The catamaran will be equipped with two ...

Evergreen containership ITAL LIBERA, whose Master died of Covid, is diverting to Europe as no ports in Asia will accept the vessel. A customer advisory from Evergreen alliance partner Hapag-Lloyd, said it had received news from its Taiwanese ...

WITH the salvage operation of X-Press Pearl turning into a wreck removal and pollution containment exercise, attention has turned to the regulation of the dangerous goods cargoes that are often the cause of boxship fires. 
The exact cause of the ...

Austal Limited (ASX:ASB) announced that Austal USA has been awarded a US$3.6 million functional design contract to prepare for construction of the new Navajo-class Towing, Salvage and Rescue Ship (T-ATS) for the United States Navy. Austal USA will ...

Mardi Gras is a 180, 000 gross tonnage, LNG-powered cruise ship, belonging to the world’s largest cruise ship operator Carnival Cruise Line. The 5,200-passenger ship was constructed by Finnish shipbuilder Meyer Turku. The newbuild bears the same ...

Car carriers are on a tight schedule with quick port rotations and operate in a very different manner when compared to other vessel segments such as tankers and bulk carriers, where the cargo planning is done onboard. On car carriers, it is the ...

Boats are ‘going dark’ by turning off system that tracks their location, and Chinese boats are biggest culprits, according to report. Evading detection could indicate vessels are pillaging Argentina’s waters illegally, conservation group says. ...

A giant replica of Noah's Ark has been deemed unseaworthy and detained where it is docked. The 70m-long (230ft) ship, which has been transformed into a floating museum, arrived in Ipswich in 2019. In response to a Freedom of Information request made ...

At 0141 on 23 March 2020, the general cargo vessel Kaami ran aground on Sgeir Graidach shoal in the Little Minch on the west coast of Scotland, while on passage from Drogheda, Ireland to Slite, Sweden. The crew were safely evacuated from the vessel ...

Diminishing attractiveness of a career at sea, coupled with rising man-berth ratios and continued fleet growth will lead to the highest shortfall of officers to crew the world’s merchant fleet in over a decade by 2026, Drewry said in a new manning ...

While momentum is building for the transition to zero-emission shipping, with significant research focusing on ammonia as a fuel source, much remains yet to be proven in the technical and financial case. A consortium of Nordic companies joined ...

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China Navigation is to sign for a revolutionary sail-assisted newbuild this month as part of a package of green measures announced today. The Swire subsidiary has also come out in favour of the proposal put forward to the International Maritime ...

A new national flagship, the successor to the Royal Yacht Britannia, will promote British trade and industry around the world, Boris Johnson has said. The vessel would be used to host trade fairs, ministerial summits and diplomatic talks as the UK ...

The US Navy’s speedy littoral combat ships had propulsion failures. The gun on its stealthy destroyer is a dud because of expensive ammo. Its newest aircraft carrier had problems with the system that launches aircraft.
On top of that, embarrassing ...

The fire aboard the Singapore-flagged containership X-PRESS PEARL intensified, prompting the decision to evacuate the ship as firefighters struggled with worsening weather conditions Sri Lankan officials are now preparing for an environmental ...

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As the race between the virus and vaccine continues, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), section Seafarers, has called for global vaccination rollout to prevent the crew change crisis from spiraling out of control for a third ...

Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (TUMST), Akishima Laboratories (Mitsui Zosen), and MOL Ferry have announced the success of a demonstration test of their jointly developed auto ...

Efforts to contain the fire on board MV X-Press Pearl containership, which broke out on May 20th while the vessel was at anchorage off Colombo harbour, Sri Lanka, remain underway. Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) along with the assistance of the ...

The Liberian Registry has attained a historic milestone, reaching a fleet size of 200 million gross tons. This achievement further confirms the position of Liberia as the second largest, and fastest growing, ship registry in the world Liberia has ...

In 2020, I-Tech AB commissioned UK based marine coatings consultants to analyse the hull condition of a 249-ship sample in dry dock spanning four years between 2015-19. As well as finding unacceptable levels of hard fouling coverage (>10%) on the ...

The International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) has agreed to initiate new measures to detect and report containers lost at sea, which may enhance their positioning, tracking and recovery. The UN maritime body agreed ...

The “Trade Wings 2,500”, an innovative container ship with a capacity of 2,500 TEU (Twenty-Foot Equivalent Unit), designed jointly by VPLP Design, Alwena Shipping, SDARI, and AYRO has received Approval in Principle from Bureau Veritas. With an ...

The Port of Hamburg is a top destination for rail services between China and Germany. Since November last year, a new link has become established between Xuzhou and Hamburg, according to Port of Hamburg's release. The Port of Hamburg expects at ...

DUBAI's terminal operator DP World has called on Egypt to build a second channel to the Suez Canal to avoid the severe disruptions to port operations brought about by the Ever Given blockage, reports UK's The Loadstar. Group chairman and CEO Sultan ...

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Patania II – GSR’s purpose-built prototype nodule collector – is currently being trialled in 4,500 m water depth in the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) of the Pacific Ocean. On its final dive in the CCZ area on 25 April, a lifting point separated and ...

French liner major CMA CGM has ordered the construction of 22 containerships worth around $2.3bn, making the deal the largest single containership order in China’s shipbuilding history. The orders are spread across three Chinese shipbuilders, ...

21 cargo containers into the ocean off the coast of Hawaii last year. The June 22, 2020, accident, 6.9 nautical miles north-northwest of Hilo, Hawaii, resulted in US$1.6 million in damages. There were no injuries. The 616-TEU barge HO'OMAKA HOU was ...

The world’s seafarers yesterday decided to shut down negotiations over the future of seafarers’ minimum wages with national shipowners represented by the International Chamber of Shipping. The seafarers’ unions said they would prefer to tackle the ...

Of the 204 ships broken in the first quarter of 2021, 155 ships were sold to the beaches of South Asia, notorious for poor work safety and environmental practices, the latest report from NGO Shipbreaking Platform shows. According to the report, ...

Britain’s HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier will lead a flotilla of Royal Navy ships through Asian waters on port visits to Japan and South Korea on its maiden deployment, the British embassy in Tokyo said on Monday. The high-profile visits, ...

More than 25% of the active tanker fleet, i.e., one quarter, is set to reach 20 years of age by 2023, creating quite a scrapping candidate list going forward.Data from VesselsValue shows that of the 13, 211 tankers in its data base, including small ...

Höegh Autoliners is accelerating its decarbonisation efforts to meet its goal of a zero-emissions future. Today’s Aurora Class launch is a crucial step in the company’s sustainability commitment. Designed for 9,100 car equivalent units it will also ...

As the Navy moves toward unmanning part of its future fleet via air, surface and underwater drones — plans that have prompted skepticism from some in Congress — U.S. 3rd Fleet hosted the sea service’s first-ever fleet exercise focused on unmanned ...

Industry heavyweights Lloyd’s Register’s Decarbonization Hub, Maersk, MAN Energy Solutions, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, NYK Line, Total and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping are embarking on a new project with the aim of ...

On 20th April, Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore officially launched Singapore’s first Maritime Drone Estate (MDE), in conjunction with the 15th Singapore Maritime Week. Located near Marina South Pier with close proximity to the anchorages, ...

Yara Marine Technologies has partnered up with BAR Technologies to design and implement wind-assisted propulsion for the shipping industry. Under the agreement, Yara Marine will offer WindWings in its portfolio to ship owners and manage the value ...

Based on box ship orderbooks and its aggressive purchasing in the second-hand market, MSC is set to usurp 2M partner Maersk next year to become the world’s largest container line. According to Alphaliner data, the capacity gap between the two ...

The maritime industry will need to invest around $3.4 trillion in the next 30 years to replace the existing fleet in line with the shipping sector’s decarbonization plans. The projection was made earlier today by the shipping industry’s top analyst ...

The giant containership Ever Given, which hit the headlines after getting stuck in the Suez Canal last month, has been seized by the canal authority. The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) is seeking $ 916 million in damages for the costs incurred by the ...

Ships entering the Northwest Passage area increased 44% from 2013 to 2019, the latest report from the Arctic Council’s Working Group on the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) shows. Specifically, in 2013 some 112 unique ships ...

Kongsberg Digital has signed a contract with the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) to upgrade and extend the K-Sim Navigation simulators based in SIDMAR; the Center for Simulation, Research and Maritime Development of the Panama Canal Authority. Equipped ...

In late March, Aker Arctic conducted full-scale ice trials for the self-propelled detachable icebreaking bow Saimaa and pusher tug Calypso. The test program was successfully completed in co-operation with Turku Repair Yard, the Finnish Transport ...

A tow line has been attached to the Dutch-flagged cargo ship Eemslift Hendrika, which has been drifting off Norway since Monday. The ship has been secured and is now being towed by two tug boats to harbour in Ålesund, the Norwegian Coastal ...

A CO2 transport and storage barge-push tug combination, developed as part of the Carbon Collectors initiative, has won approval in principle from Bureau Veritas. The concept was developed by Dutch shipyard Royal Niestern Sander and the shipping ...

From its creation three decades ago to its market leading position in global shipping today, Azipod® propulsion has revolutionized marine transport with its unparalleled performance, efficiency, sustainability and reliability. First seen on the ...

Radio waves could be used to charge manned or autonomous electric vessels in the future Technology to charge electric vehicles wirelessly is being developed for marine applications in Cornwall, UK. Marine-i and St Austell-based Perpetual Research ...

Dutch general cargo ship EEMSLIFT HENDRIKA issued a distress signal in the morning Apr 5 in Norwegian sea 60 nm west of Olesund, Norway Reportedly, the ship developed a heavy list after cargo shift.  According to local media, 8 crew members out of ...

As the investigation into the grounding of the EVER GIVEN in the Suez Canal begins, the vessel’s Japanese owner, Shoe Kisen, declared General Average. And a customer circular from Evergreen, seen by The Loadstar, confirms that Shoe Kisen appointed ...

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Allseas equipping Pioneering Spirit with a second unique lift system capable of removing and installing complete offshore jackets weighing up to 20,000 t in one go. After several months of installation works, the sheer size of the “Jacket lift ...

Japanese cruise shipping company NYK Cruises, part of the NYK Group, has ordered an LNG-powered 51,950 GT cruise ship from German shipbuilder Meyer Werft. The order is said to be significant because no shipping company has placed a newbuilding ...

The ultra-large ship Ever Given that has been blocking the Suez Canal for six days has swung back across the channel amid high wind on Monday, after being partially refloated. The ship’s bow was afloat in the water despite its change of position ...

Mega container ship MSC TINA contacted pier on Mar 27 at Ambarli Port, Turkey, said Turkish Maritime General Directorate.  The 398m long mega containership arrived at Ambarli, Istanbul, from Evyap Turkey, and understood to contact the pier while ...

HeidelbergCement Norway and Felleskjøpet AGRI has awarded Egil Ulvan Rederi a contract to build and operate the world’s first zero emission cargo ship. The ship concept has the project name “With Orca” – Powered by Nature, as a significant part of ...

Three Russian submarines simultaneously surfaced from under the ice at a distance of up to 300 meters from each other for the first time in history during Arctic drills, Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov reported to Russian President ...

Global shipping was in chaos even before the Suez blockage. Shortages and higher prices loom. One of the world's most vital trade arteries has been blocked by a quarter-mile-long container ship Ever Given, creating a traffic jam that has ensnared ...

Jotun HullKeeper enables ship operators to improve hull efficiency, lower costs and improve environmental performance. Following an extensive development process, Jotun is proud to introduce HullKeeper, a proactive hull optimisation programme. ...

In its latest effort to expand its presence in maritime operations, China announced that it plans to build its largest maritime scientific research vessel. China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) and the Guangdong Institute of Intelligent ...

Egypt's Suez Canal has been blocked by a large container ship that ran aground after losing control, causing a traffic jam of cargo vessels in the region. Tug boats were deployed to help shift the 400m-long (1312ft) and 59m-wide ship - the Ever ...

Kongsberg Maritime has entered into an agreement to supply the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research (IMR) with four autonomous vessels. The scope of the supply includes two unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) and two autonomous underwater vehicles ...

Bureau Veritas has certified the structural resistance of POLAR POD, a new research ship type designed to handle extreme weather conditions in the “furious fifties” and the impact of the biggest waves in the world (38 meters high). POLAR POD is an ...

The UK government launched today a £20 million (about $27.7 million) competition to make innovative green maritime ideas a reality. The fund will be used to support the development of prototype vessels and port infrastructure that could then be ...

Since January 1, 2020, the number of scrubber-fitted ships has nearly doubled from 2,011 ships to 3,935 by March 1, 2021, data from BIMCO shows. Scrubbers have been a very attractive solution for meeting the IMO 2020 regulation on cutting the ...

The Getting to Zero Coalition’s updated Mapping of Zero Emission Pilots and Demonstration Projects uncovers emerging trends, sees a strong climb in the number of identified projects as well as increased activities in Asia. The uptake of zero ...

The containership ONE APUS returned to sea more than three months after it sought refuge in Japan following one of the worst container losses at sea ever recorded. The 14,052 TEU boxship departed Kobe, Japan on March 16 resuming the interrupted ...

Svitzer has recently begun operating the Svitzer SeaBadger Hull Cleaning ROV in Panama as part of the ambition to grow and offer additional services to Svitzer’s customers. Svitzer SeaBadger is a Hull Cleaning ROV (remotely operated vehicle), which ...

Friday (Mar12), “K” LINE’s car carrier “CENTURY HIGHWAY GREEN” completed by Tadotsu Shipyard Co., Ltd., the Imabari Shipbuilding Group, became the world’s first newly-built vessel to obtain Nippon Kaiji Kyokai (ClassNK) notation certifying that the ...

Reporting indicates that a vessel has been boarded 213nm South of Cotonou. The incident is understood to have involved the vessel being boarded by 9 armed individuals and that 15 of the 21 crew members (consisting of Ukrainian, Romanian and ...

  A fire broke out this afternoon on MSC Lirica cruise ship, according to a Greek reporter, Kerkyra Simera.  The MSC cruise ship has been moored in the port of the Corfu since January 30th. The Greek website reports that as many as 38 firefighters ...

POORLY managed or fraudulent flag registries representing developing countries with little maritime technical expertise face renewed scrutiny amid a rise in regulatory arbitrage by shipowners seeking to circumvent compliance with international ...

A.P. Moller - Maersk A/S, Fleet Management Limited, Keppel Offshore & Marine, Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping, Sumitomo Corporation and Yara International ASA announce that the parties have entered into a Memorandum of ...

Global trade surged in the latter half of last year as Covid-19 saw people buying more goods because they couldn’t spend as much on travel, entertainment or dining out. February was the second-highest activity on record for transactions measured in ...

A Shipping Corporation of India statement said the move demonstrated a gradual shift in the perception of seafaring as a male-oriented profession In an attempt to acknowledge the efforts of women in breaking down the stereotypes in erstwhile ...

Electric, modular hybrid bulk carrier designed to meet the world’s need for sustainable, zero carbon, efficient, and flexible seaborne transportation. Leading tanker shipping company Stena Bulk has today unveiled its concept InfinityMAX hybrid bulk ...

Cruises are still months away from resuming, but once they do, things will be very different. Those differences will be found beyond the full-service buffets and improved air sanitation onboard; in fact, many ports are questioning if they want to ...

Solid bulk cargo liquefaction in ships has been responsible for the loss of more than 100 seafarers’ lives and nine bulk carriers in the last decade. This corresponds to 10% of recorded bulk carrier losses and 50% of fatalities, indicating the ...

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Singapore is testing unmanned surface vessels with a locally developed, AI-driven navigation algorithm that could be used for maritime security operations in the congested but strategically important waters around the southeast Asian island ...

The master of the self-discharging bulker TERTNES died during a voyage from Gulen, Norway to the Port of Dover, and a post-mortem coronavirus test returned a positive result. 
On February 24, as TERTNES was under way in international waters en ...

Odyssey of the Seas, Royal Caribbean International’s brand-new ship under construction at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany, has completed its 10-plus-hour river conveyance. The 32-kilometer conveyance is a process unique to ships ...

Following its recent unveiling of the ‘Tesla of the Seas’, British company Windship Technology has launched talks with interested parties from the shipping industry and investment circles to bring the true zero-emission vessel design into the ...

After placing 15 vessels in cold lay-up last spring, the Company began the process of reactivating nine of them at the beginning of this year. To keep pace with changing market conditions, Wallenius Wilhelmsen is now returning another three vessels ...

The U.S. offshore wind market is growing and will need a fleet of Jones Act compliant vessels. Ulstein Design & Solutions holds an Approval in Principle (AIP) for its proven Service Operation Vessel (SOV) design, the ULSTEIN SX195, from ABS - the ...

The UK’s largest commercial newbuild for over 30 years has been formally presented with LR certification after a four-year-long construction period. Britain’s new polar research ship, the RSS Sir David Attenborough has been awarded LR certification ...

What is going on in the North Pacific, as scarcely a week goes by without stacks of containers hurling themselves into the sea as ships roll extravagantly in the heavy weather they seem to be encountering? Is the weather any worse than might be ...

  Israeli officials increasingly believe explosion on vessel was operation by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, unsourced report says An examination of damage to an Israeli-owned cargo ship currently docked in Dubai indicates an explosion that hit ...

The attractiveness of a career at sea has been an industry concern for a number of years. Long periods away from home, increasing administrative demands for paperwork on board, and the threat of criminalisation being major factors. Covid- 19 ...

JUST over a third of holders of Maritime and Coastguard Agency seafarer certification are UK nationals, with the overall number broadly stable at 42,920, according to thelatestannualstatisticsfrom the Department for Transport. UK nationals accounted ...

Singapore’s shipping company Pacific International Lines (PIL) has been sentenced for illegally discharging oil into Apra Harbor, Guam, and for maintaining false and incomplete records relating to the discharges of oily bilge water from a feeder ...

On 16 April 2018, the Lithuanian registered ro-ro cargo vessel Finlandia Seaways suffered a catastrophic main engine failure that caused serious structural damage to the engine and a fire in the engine room. The vessel’s third engineer, who was on ...

A feeder boxship slammed into a crane on the Long Tau river near Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam on Sunday, resulting in the collapse of the crane onto the vessel, and significant damage to the the ship and many boxes, with four containers also reported ...

Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines’ small ship Braemar is set to repeat history when it returns to the narrow Corinth Canal in April 2022. The 924-guest Braemar broke the world record for being the largest ship ever to traverse the 6.4kilometre-long Corinth ...

For the first time in more than a quarter of a century Maersk is on track to lose its mantle as the world’s largest containerline.Mediterranean Shipping Co, now run by former Maersk COO, Soren Toft, has been hoovering up secondhand tonnage in a ...

"Our ambition is to build an advanced innovation centre combined with a giga factory, meaning that we will produce fuel cells with a capacity of 1200 megawatts, or 1,2 gigawatt, per year. This corresponds to several hundred million EUR in annual ...

Odyssey of the Seas, Royal Caribbean’s second Quantum Ultra Class cruise ship, is set to join the company’s fleet by the end of the first quarter of this year. Meyer Werft floated out Odyssey of the Seas in December 2020. The ship then moored at ...

This latest box spill in the north Pacific will add urgency to a review of lashing practices on ULCVs, and could lead to an interim restriction on the height of container stacks on the route.  2M alliance partner MSC said the preliminary advice ...