At 0633 on Tuesday 18 December 2018, the roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) passenger ferry European Causeway rolled heavily in very rough seas and very high winds during its voyage from Larne, Northern Ireland to Cairnryan, Scotland. The violent motion ...

China’s Shanghai port has retained its rank as the world’s busiest container port, having handled 43.3 million twenty-foot equivalent units last year, Xinhua reports citing Shanghai Mayor Ying Yong. Shanghai has held its top-dog position for the ...

At about 0127 on 20 January 2018, the then UK flagged container ship CMA CGM G. Washington unexpectedly rolled 20° to starboard, paused for several seconds, then rolled 20° to port. The ship was experiencing very heavy seas in the North Pacific ...

One Sea, the industry alliance which aims to lead the way towards an operating autonomous maritime ecosystem by 2025, has appointed Capt Eero Lehtovaara as its new Chairman. Eero, a Master Mariner and Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute, is ...

“If we can have our assets for up to 40 years we will,” said one senior cruise line executive at a recent industry event. Cruise ships have traditionally been built and designed with a 30-year service life for their first owner, before being sold ...

THE Los Angeles Port Police have given a presentation to the Los Angeles Harbour Department, extolling the benefits of drones for mapping and photography assignments. The meeting was the final step in an ongoing plan to deploy the drones. The Port ...

2020 promises to be another momentous year for deliveries of ultra large container vessels, with 23 newbuilding ships scheduled for delivery in the next 12 months. According to Drewry, a total of 1.2 million TEUs will be added to the fleet this ...

A giant LNG bunker vessel, which will be operated by French energy giant Total and owned by Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), has completed sea trials in China, according to an official from Bureau Veritas.  The 18,600 cbm ...

The six contractors that fell ill while on board the Vanguard-transported FPSO, one of them with a fatal outcome, consumed a cleaning liquid found on board of the FPSO, Boskalis said in a statement.  As informed, the liquid is a substance ...

British-American cruise operator Carnival has announced plans to launch four new cruise ships in 2020. The four new vessels are Iona for P&O Cruises UK, Enchanted Princess for Princess Cruises, Mardi Gras for Carnival Cruise Line and Costa Firenze ...

Chinese container vessel Cosco Pacific was forced to divert to the Sri Lankan Port of Colombo as fire within its cargo hold destroyed two container loads of cargo. Port of Colombo MD Captain Athula Hewavitharana, told Container News that by the ...

Armed pirates abducted eight crew members of the Greek-flagged tanker Happy Lady while the vessel was anchored around 2 nautical miles off the port of Limboh, in Cameroon, the Hellenic Coast Guard said on December 31. The kidnapped crew members ...

A Sandy Hook Harbor pilot fell while boarding the US-flagged containership Maersk Kensington in the early morning of December 30, 2019. The ship, part of Maersk Line’s fleet, arrived from Algeciras, Spain to the Port of New York and New Jersey when ...

Matson, Inc. (NYSE: MATX), a leading U.S. carrier in the Pacific, took delivery of its newest vessel on Dec 26, the largest combination container / roll-on, roll-off ("con-ro") ship ever built in the United States, from General Dynamics ...

The master of the bulker RAINBOW QUEST has pleaded guilty to U.S. federal charges of operating a commercial cargo ship while intoxicated. Capt. Vadim Humenyuk, 51, admitted that he was under the influence of alcohol while Rainbow Quest was in San ...

European short-sea and feeder ship operators are challenging efforts by the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) to redefine container lashing as a cargo handling activity in order to bring it under the control of unionized ...

A cargo vessel crossing through the Bosphorus in Istanbul crashed into a bollard next to Aşiyan Cemetery on Dec. 27. Songa Iridium, a Liberian-flagged cargo vessel departing from Odessa port of Ukraine, ran ashore at the Rumeli Hisarı 25 minutes ...

The South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) is disappointed with the slow growth of the South African Ship Registry, ascribed partly to lack of common vision and understanding among state entities. “We started the year with enthusiasm, ...

Rohan Ruparelia still has flashbacks from his kidnapping three years ago—and every time he hears news about pirate attacks, he fears for the victims. For the last few months, the merchant seaman from Mumbai has been studying at East Coast College in ...

Japanese shipping majors Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha (NYK) and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) have signed long-term transport agreements with compatriot energy company Kyushu Electric Power (Kyuden) for LNG-fueled large coal carriers. The two vessels ...

Turkish Suezmax tanker Istanbul has foiled a pirate attack on Tuesday, December 24, while sailing some 180 nautical miles southwest of Brass, Nigeria. The ship was approached by a high-speed craft with 9 armed men aboard trying to board the vessel, ...

General cargo ship CDRY BLUE was pushed aground by storm in Sant’Antioco area, south-western Sardinia, late Dec 21. The ship left Cagliari bound for Spain with cargo of coffee, encountered rough weather and tried to shelter, but failed. She’s hard ...

Five ships were boarded by pirates in the past four days while underway in the eastbound lane of Singapore Strait, according to piracy watchdog ReCAAP. Of the five ships, three were bulkers and two were tankers. All seafarers were reported safe, ...

Port Everglades beat its own world record on December 1, 2019, with 79 more passengers than its previous record set in 2016. Once all the manifests were tallied, a total of 55,964 passengers sailed in and out of Port Everglades in a single day, ...

Two cruise ships have collided in the port of Mexico’s Caribbean resort of Cozumel, damaging the 952-foot-long (290-meter) vessel and leaving passengers stunned at the loud impact. Six people were lightly injured on the massive ship named Carnival ...

The European Commission has approved five schemes to support maritime transport in Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Poland and Sweden. As explained, the schemes encourage ship registration in Europe and contribute to the global competitiveness of the ...

On 17 August 2019, Stolt Groenland, a Cayman Islands registered chemical/ products tanker operated by Stolt Tankers B.V. sailed from Houston, USA for passage to Kobe, Japan via the Panama Canal. The tanker was carrying 20 different chemical cargoes ...

Twenty crew members have been kidnapped from a Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker off Lome, Togo, Dryad Global said. The incident, described as “the largest kidnapping event in West Africa within 2019”, occurred some 115 nautical miles southeast ...

For 18 months DNV GL has worked with The Ocean Cleanup to establish a set of requirements and verification processes, designed to enable consumer trust and transparency, in the burgeoning ocean-plastic market The Ocean Cleanup, the Dutch non-profit ...

Two new environmentally friendly vessels for the Norwegian ferry operator Norled will be propelled by high-efficiency azimuth thrusters from SCHOTTEL. One of these LMG Marin designed vessels – currently under construction at Westcon Yards, Norway – ...

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South Korean shipbuilder Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and compatriot telecommunications operator SK Telecom (SKT) have developed and verified a 5G-based autonomous and remote control navigation test platform using a test ship. The 3.3-meter-long ...

The first X-BOW® polar vessel for Lindblad Expeditions Holdings, Inc., was launched into her right element on Saturday 7 December 2019. Due to Polar Class 5 (PC5), the ship can venture far into polar areas. The X-BOW® secures a comfortable transit ...

General cargo ship ARKLOW DAY left Aviles Port, Asturias, northwest Spain, at 2010 UTC Dec 9 after offloading cargo of slabs.  Shortly after leaving the ship encountered rough seas of Biscay with waves up to 9 meters high.  Stray wave broke the ...

The nine crew members that were kidnapped from the bulk carrier MV Bonita off Cotonou, Benin, early November have been released, after 35 days in captivity,  Norwegian shipowner J.J. Ugland informed. Following the release on December 6, the ...

A few weeks ago, John Delaney, president of Seattle-based Windstar Cruises, stood on a scaffold at a historic shipyard in Palermo, Italy, and took a blowtorch to the Star Breeze, a 30-year-old, 212-passenger motor yacht. With sparks flying, and ...

Lloyd’s Register (LR) has granted Approval in Principle to Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co. (DSIC), and MAN Energy Solutions for an ammonia-fuelled 23,000 TEU Ultra-Large Container Ship (ULCS) concept design, the first ammonia as fuel design of its ...

Odfjell’s newbuilt chemical tanker, the 49,000 dwt Bow Orion, was tonight recognized with the ‘Tanker Ship of the Year Award’ at the Tanker Shipping & Trade Conference. The Riviera Maritime’s Tanker Shipping and Trade Awards honor ‘excellence ...

Nineteen crew members of a tanker vessel identified as Nave Constellation have been kidnapped by pirates. The attack occurred while the vessel was sailing around 100 nautical miles off Bonny Island, Nigeria on December 3, 2019, Dryad Global ...

Seafarers are increasingly alarmed by the prospect of being criminalized for problems through no fault of their own, linked to the enforcement of the 0.5% cap on the sulphur content of fuel, Maritime professionals’ union Nautilus International ...

UECC has secured “Green Financing” in relation to the Company’s investment in new generation pure car and truck carriers (PCTC) with Battery Hybrid LNG Solution taking the company beyond IMO’s target of 40 percent carbon reduction by 2030 United ...

Anglo-Eastern has partnered with the technology group Wärtsilä to digitalise its fleet operations. The technology solution, which will be rolled out to the Hong Kong-based ship manager’s global fleet of more than 600 vessels, supports full voyage ...

More than 80 percent of German shipping companies are planning to switch to the new sulfur-reduced Low Sulphur Fuel Oil (LSFO) from next year on, according to a survey published by the German Shipowners’ Association (VDR). The reason for “one of ...

The Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) fleet has grown at a staggering rate of 8% year to date in November. The 65 VLCCs delivered in the first 11 months of 2019 will mark the highest number of deliveries since 1976. A total of 19m DWT has been ...

SCHOTTEL has once again been awarded orders in the Norwegian fishery segment. Thus, the world’s largest live fish carrier (LFC), as well as a 67-metre state-of-the-art longliner, will feature thrusters from the German propulsion expert. Both vessels ...

China has officially unveiled China Shipbuilding Corporation, which was described by the country’s officials as “the world’s largest shipbuilding group”. The inaugural meeting of the newly created company was held in Beijing on November 26, 2019, ...

Rescuers were struggling to save 14,600 sheep after the cargo ship they were being carried on capsized in the Black Sea off the coast of Romania. The Queen Hind, bound for Saudi Arabia, overturned on Sunday shortly after leaving Romania’s Midia ...

India’s government has approved the sale of a majority stake in the Shipping Corporation of India (SCI). Specifically, the government would divest its shareholding of 63.75 percent in the Mumbai-based shipping company. The government will also ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a Marine Accident Brief about a December 30, 2018, accident involving the passenger ship Nippon Maru which struck mooring dolphins at a U.S. Navy fueling wharf in Apra Harbor, Guam. The ...

Maersk Tankers is set to add 11 tanker vessels to the fleet under its management, following an agreement with BP Shipping (BP) and ICBC Financial Leasing Co., Ltd (ICBC). Under the terms of the agreement, Maersk Tankers will take each vessel from ...

Qatar has entered into an agreement with MSC Cruises for the charter of two cruise ships during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. Berthed at Doha Port, the cruise liners will offer a combined capacity of 4,000 cabins and act as floating hotels during ...

Florida-based cruise line Celebrity Cruises, part of Royal Caribbean Cruises, has unveiled plans for the first-ever sailing with an entirely female bridge and officer team. This historic sailing will take place on International Women’s Day – March ...

Miami-based Carnival Corporation has strengthened its environmental compliance team with new appointments. Namely, the company announced seven new hires and internal promotions as part of the development of its new ethics and compliance function, ...

A high level of alcohol may have led to the fatal fall of the second engineer onboard the general cargo ship MV Khosrov Bey while underway in November 2018, according to a report by Transport Malta’s Marine Safety Investigation Unit. An ...

Pirates attacked an Italy-flagged offshore supply vessel in the southern Gulf of Mexico, injuring two crew members, the Mexican Navy said on Tuesday, in the latest outbreak of robbery and piracy to hit oil platforms and infrastructure in the ...

Slow shipping is not the answer to cutting emissions from shipping, the UK Chamber of Shipping pointed out.  The UK trade body for shipping highlighted its argument while the latest round of UN ship climate negotiation is being held at the ...

European social partners for the maritime technology sector have once again called upon EU policy-makers to adopt a dedicated European industrial strategy for the sector. On November 8, industriAll Europe and SEA Europe, representatives of the MT ...

The Panama-flagged oil and chemical tanker Hoyu was hit by a fire in Singapore’s territorial waters, according to the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore. The incident occurred in the afternoon hours of November 7 while the 8,925 dwt unit was ...

The technology group Wärtsilä, in collaboration with PSA Marine, has achieved a breakthrough in its IntelliTug project. Following the successful installation of a first-of-its-kind Dynamic Positioning (DP) system onboard the harbour tug ‘PSA ...

Danish shipping giant Maersk will install a containerized 600 kWh marine battery system on board the 4,500 TEU Maersk Cape Town in December 2019 to improve vessel performance and reliability while reducing CO2 emissions. “This trial will provide a ...

The growth of the Saudi Arabian flagged fleet by 28 percent in 2018 can be largely attributed to improvements achieved by the country’s maritime authority, Vice Chairman of the General Authority for Transport for the Maritime Transport Sector, Farid ...

Havyard is taking the next step towards a hydrogen system pilot for large ships. The company is entering the approval phase and has signed agreements with providers of hydrogen tanks and fuel cells. If large vessels are to sail zero-emission at ...

It’s back to school season in the Philippines. It’s that time of the year when Filipinos create memories as a family: parents and children purchase school supplies, uniform, and stationary, parents accompany kids to their school on the first day, ...

Ugland bulk vessel MV Bonita was boarded by pirates very early Saturday morning off Cotonou/Benin while she was at anchor. Nine crew members were taken off the vessel while she was waiting for berth to discharge inbound cargo, gypsum. The ...

• The world’s largest floating offshore wind power plant, Hywind Tampen, will be located in Norway, with a total capacity of 88 MW and equipped with 11 SG 8.0-167 DD turbines. • By reducing the use of gas turbines on the fields, the project helps ...

North Sea Europe programme, part of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to the tune of EUR 3.4 million has been officially approved and launched. The project brings together universities, wind-assist technology providers with ship owners ...

On 28th October, the iconic Clipper Stad Amsterdam arrived early in Den Helder in sunny weather, after a calm voyage from Amsterdam. After watching her arrival, invited guests were given a tour of the vessel by Captain Moritz Kuhlenbäumer, who ...

Market projections have shown that the best-positioned fuels for research and development into net-zero marine fuels are alcohol, biomethane and ammonia. According to a new study conducted by Danish shipping major A.P. Moller – Maersk and UK’s ...

Thanks to its advanced solutions and technical innovations, Viking Line says its newbuild Viking Glory will be one of the most climate-smart passenger ships in the worldIt is estimated the ship will consume up to 10% less fuel than Viking Grace, ...

The Prysmian Group is set to launch the most advanced cable layer in the world, Leonardo Da Vinci As world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, the Prysmian Group is set to launch the most advanced cable layer in the world. The ...

ABB, in collaboration with Keppel O&M’s technology arm, Keppel Marine and Deepwater Technology (KMDTech), will jointly develop the technology for autonomous vessels and retrofit a 32-meter harbor tugboat with leading-edge digital solutions, enabling ...

The first cruise liner to be built in the Chinese mainland entered the production phase on Friday, with the 135,500-metric-ton Vista-class vessel expected to showcase China's cutting-edge prowess in shipbuilding technologies, experts said. The ...

An uninhabited island in the South Atlantic Ocean is experiencing high levels of stranded debris that likely comes from Chinese merchant ships, a study published in September this year indicates. During the last 3 decades, plastic drink bottles ...

This year has already seen an alarming number of container ship fires including Yantian Express, APL Vancouver, Grande America, E.R. Kobe and KMTC Hong Kong. The escalation is of growing concern to IUMI (International Union of Marine Insurance) who ...

TONY HOPKINS, who has died aged 94, was a merchant seaman who survived being torpedoed in the Second World War and later pioneered shipping links with China.At about 0230 on September 5 1942, the 18-year-old Hopkins was on his second sea voyage, a ...

Two shipping companies incorporated in Liberia will pay a USD 1.8 million criminal penalty for pollution caused by a cargo vessel and concealing evidence, the US Department of Justice said. Vessel owner Nederland Shipping Company and operator ...

The unsafe shipbreaking yards on South Asian beaches have claimed the lives of 19 workers so far this year, the NGO Shipbreaking Platform said in its quarterly update. According to the coalition campaigning for clean and safe ship recycling, a ...

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and Tohoku Electric Power Co.,Inc today announced both companies’ intention to move ahead with a joint study related to the installation of world’s first hard sail system (Wind Challenger) on a coal carrier. Wind ...

American information technology company IBM has joined a global consortium of partners, led by marine research organization ProMare, which is building an unmanned, fully-autonomous ship that will cross the Atlantic in September 2020. A new ...

Norwegian authorities have slapped Singapore-based cash buyer Wirana Shipping Corporation with a NOK 7 million (USD 765,000) fine over the company’s role in the 2017 accident involving barge carrier Harrier (ex-Tide Carrier). The vessel almost ran ...

The 1998-built singledecker Rhodanus ran aground in the Strait of Bonifacio off the French island of Corsica on October 13. The French maritime authority Premar said the ship did not respond to radio calls before it missed a turning point and ...

On October 13, 2019, amendments to an international treaty aimed at preventing the spread of potentially invasive species in ships’ ballast water came into force, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) said. The International Convention for ...

French naval architecture firm VPLP has developed a new roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) vessel design equipped with four “Oceanwings” that would assist the ship’s main propulsion system. The 121-meter-long RoRo vessel was developed for transporting ...

Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines made history on Wednesday as the 24,344-ton 195.82-meter-long, 22.52-meter-wide Braemar broke the existing record to become the largest ship ever to traverse the Corinth Canal, which is only 24 meters wide at its narrowest ...

“The improbable can happen. But when a number of improbabilities occur consecutively within a short period of time it is very difficult to accept that they are coincidences.” Those were the words of British High Court judge Mr Justice Teare when he ...

China’s new cruise brand Astro Ocean Cruise received its first ship after the 1995-built Piano Land was named in a ceremony in Xiamen on September 26. Formerly known as Oriana, the cruise ship was acquired by Astro Ocean from P&O Cruises. Piano ...

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has taken the lead in the large-scale vessels market by bagging orders for ultra-large containerships, valued at more than KRW 1 trillion. Earlier today, SHI announced that it had clinched a deal worth a total of USD ...

A large bulk carrier was approaching a port. It was heading towards a narrow, 100m wide channel at a speed of 4kts with the master, second mate, a helmsman and two harbour pilots on the bridge. None of the vessel’s deck officers had visited the port ...

   The wreck of the general cargo vessel M/S Osfjord, that grounded over a year ago off Norway, has been removed, according to Norwegian offshore supply vessel owner BOA Offshore. The ship ran aground in Linesoya waters, north of Trondheim, ...

The passengers on board a 165m cruise ship were looking forward to visiting a small fishing town located a short way up a narrow river. The fine weather was ideal for exploring the town’s quaint shops and winding streets. The harbour authority and ...

A fully laden 363m container ship was arriving in port. When the pilot arrived on the bridge he requested full ahead. The master pilot exchange was brief and there was no agreed plan for the inbound passage. The berthing manoeuvre involved turning ...

NYK has conducted the world’s first Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) trial performed in accordance with the IMO’s Interim Guidelines for MASS trials* as the company begins tests to realize its target of manned autonomous ships** for safer ...

Bloom Energy and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), a part of Samsung Group, today announced a collaboration to design and develop ships powered by Bloom Energy’s solid oxide fuel cell technology. Bloom Energy is the world’s leading provider of ...

Ship Sparta III, the largest container ship in the fleet of Oboronlogistics, made the delivery of project cargo from China to Europe via the Northern sea route The experience of operating the Sparta III on the Northern sea route showed that the ...

ABB enters new market segment with order to install Azipod® electric propulsion on board two dry bulk carriers from Germany’s largest bulk carrier company Oldendorff Carriers. Two self-unloading dry cargo transshipment units will be the first bulk ...

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has designed the cargo system for the world’s largest containership, MSC Gülsün, which was delivered in July 2019 by South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries. She is 400 m long, 61.5 m wide and is the first in a series of ...

ANYONE who has ever stood on the Prime Meridian line at Greenwich Observatory in London holding a compass will know that True North and Magnetic North do not align. Earth’s wandering magnetism means that the magnetic North Pole is constantly ...

Ferry operator Scandlines announced earlier today that it has signed an agreement with Norsepower Oy Ltd, leading clean technology and engineering company pioneering modern wind propulsion technology, to install Norsepower’s Rotor Sail Solution on ...

Norwegian frigate KNM Helge Ingstad seem to have been unaware of the inbound Sola TS tanker before it was too late, preliminary marine accident report from Norway’s Accident Investigation Board (AIS) indicates. The two ships collided on November 8, ...

The Provincial Court of A Coruña, a northwestern city in Spain, upheld on Wednesday the ruling of the Spanish Supreme court from January 2016 over the Prestige oil spill case 15 years after the environmental disaster. As a result, the captain of ...