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  • Neoline picks Solid Sail solution for its first sailing cargo ship

    Neoline picks Solid Sail solution for its first sailing cargo ship

    French low-carbon shipping company Neoline has selected the Solid Sail system from compatriot shipyard Chantiers de l’Atlantique as the main propulsion for its first sailing cargo ship. By choosing the Solid Sail solution, Neoline is one step ...
  • Isle of Man Ship Registry expands Greek fleet

    Isle of Man Ship Registry expands Greek fleet

    The Isle of Man Ship Registry (IOMSR) is expanding its Greek fleet with an agreement to flag four bulk carriers with Enterprises Shipping & Trading (EST). EST is IOMSR’s oldest and largest Greek client, and the latest additions bring the total ...
  • H2 Industries develops ship concept that converts plastic waste into clean hydrogen

    H2 Industries develops ship concept that converts plastic waste into clean hydrogen

    New York-based hydrogen company H2 Industries and naval architecture firm TECHNOLOG Services have developed 3D designs for a concept ship that collects plastic waste and converts it into clean hydrogen. Plastic debris currently makes up 80 per cent ...
  • Sailcargo buys Swedish sailing cargo vessel to accelerate green shipping

    Sailcargo buys Swedish sailing cargo vessel to accelerate green shipping

    Costa Rica-based clean shipping company Sailcargo has purchased sailing cargo vessel Vega Gamleby in an effort to accelerate clean shipping. The purchase comes amind a huge growth in the clean shipping industry at the moment, with consumers ...
  • World's first intelligent unmanned ship launched in South China

    World's first intelligent unmanned ship launched in South China

    The world's first ship with an intelligent unmanned system was launched in Guangzhou, South China’s Guangdong Province on Wednesday.  The ship, which was developed by the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory in Zhuhai, ...
  • Fumigant poisoning on general cargo vessel Thorco Angela with 1 person injured

    Fumigant poisoning on general cargo vessel Thorco Angela with 1 person injured

    Completed preliminary assessment-  summary 4/22: Thorco AngelaA stevedore suffered sickness and disorientation after handling cans containing fumigant while discharging cargo from the general cargo vessel Thorco Angela. In July 2021, 8000t of ...
  • Scotland’s ongoing ferry fiasco: what you need to know

    Scotland’s ongoing ferry fiasco: what you need to know

    Delays in the delivery of two new Calmac passenger ferries have caused a major political scandal Ferries are a major issue in the west of Scotland. The 45,000 or so inhabitants of the Hebrides depend on ferry links to deliver essential supplies; to ...
  • P&O Ferries' Pride of Kent had record number of  faults including rescue boats that didn't work and fire  safety failures, inspectors found after firm sacked  800 workers without notice

    P&O Ferries' Pride of Kent had record number of faults including rescue boats that didn't work and fire safety failures, inspectors found after firm sacked 800 workers without notice

    The Pride of Kent was held for six weeks by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Inspectors from the agency found it had 47 failures, a record number of faults These included dirty working conditions and problems with fire safety systems. It also ...
  • Sustainable Marine delivers first floating tidal power to Nova Scotia grid

    Sustainable Marine delivers first floating tidal power to Nova Scotia grid

    Ocean energy pioneer Sustainable Marine today announced it has successfully harnessed the enormous tidal currents in Canada’s Bay of Fundy, delivering the first floating in-stream tidal power to Nova Scotia’s grid. Sustainable Marine CEO Jason ...
  • Container orderbook breaks more records

    Container orderbook breaks more records

    The giant containership orderbook – equivalent to the extant fleets of Cosco, Hapag-Lloyd, Evergreen and Ocean Network Express (ONE) combined – is setting all manner of new records.According to brokers Braemar ACM, as of May 1 this year the capacity ...
  • EcoClipper: First sailing ship to start ops this summer

    EcoClipper: First sailing ship to start ops this summer

    Dutch sustainable shipping company EcoClipper revealed that its newly purchased ship, De Tukker, will start sailing from mid-August 2022. Bought in January this year, De Tukker is the first in a fleet of low-impact sailing ships which will tThe ...
  • Star Cruises’ Ships Sold for Scrap in Liquidation of Genting Hong Kong

    Star Cruises’ Ships Sold for Scrap in Liquidation of Genting Hong Kong

    Four of the cruise ships previously operated by Genting Hong Kong’s Star Cruises have been sold with reports indicating that at least three of them are expected to quickly arrive at the Asian scrapyards. The Joint Provisional Liquidators overseeing ...
  • C-JOB: New class of hydrogen ship design will revolutionize renewables market

    C-JOB: New class of hydrogen ship design will revolutionize renewables market

    C-Job Naval Architects have designed a brand new class of liquid hydrogen tanker that will revolutionize the renewable energy market. The tanker concept, developed in partnership with LH2 Europe, is a critical element in realizing a green end-to-end ...
  • Cruise Industry WG considers Survitec Seahaven

    Cruise Industry WG considers Survitec Seahaven

    Global Survival Technology pioneer Survitec is teaming up with Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd (NCLH), Independent Maritime Advisors Ltd, and a major shipbuilder to deliver a cruise ship design incorporating Survitec's Seahaven, the world's ...
  • Swire Builds Pacific NW Presence Agreeing to Acquire Westwood Shipping

    Swire Builds Pacific NW Presence Agreeing to Acquire Westwood Shipping

    Swire Shipping buys US's Westwodo Shipping Lines expanding in Pacific NorthwestWestwood Columbia is one of four 45,000 dwt ships Swire Shipping acquires with Westwood Shipping Lines (WSL)
Swire Shipping announced that it has signed a definitive ...
  • Top Navy Admiral Wants Rust-Free Ships

    Top Navy Admiral Wants Rust-Free Ships

    In an interview with the US Naval Institute, the US Chief Of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Mike Gilday, addressed the issue of US Navy ships returning to port covered in rust, saying that rust-free ships are critical for deterrence and naval ...
  • MAIB Report - Two catastrophic engine failures, one resulting in a fire, on board ro-ro passenger ferry Wight Sky

    MAIB Report - Two catastrophic engine failures, one resulting in a fire, on board ro-ro passenger ferry Wight Sky

    SummaryOn 26 August 2018, Wight Sky suffered a catastrophic main engine failure as it prepared to enter the Lymington River on its regular crossing from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. This was the ferry’s second catastrophic main engine failure in less ...
  • Yacht Transport

    Yacht Transport

    DYT, formerly known as DOCKWISE YACHT TRANSPORT was founded in 1987. The first sailing was under the name of Wijsmuller, a shipping company that specialized in heavy, off shore bulk transport and tugboats. During the oil crisis of the 80’s, ...
  • World’s first pure battery tanker completes inaugural bunkering op

    World’s first pure battery tanker completes inaugural bunkering op

    On April 26, Asahi, the world’s first pure battery tanker to operate completely on electricity, supplied the car carrier Victorious Ace with fuel at the Daikoku Pier C-1 Wharf in Yokohama, Japanese shipping major Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) ...
  • Artemis Technologies’ all-electric foiling prototype takes to the sea

    Artemis Technologies’ all-electric foiling prototype takes to the sea

    UK-based Artemis Technologies, a spin-off from the Artemis Racing America’s Cup sailing team, has released the first pictures of its 100% electric, high-speed foiling workboat prototype on Belfast Lough. The 11.5-metre vessel named Pioneer of ...
  • First China-built Dual-fuel Methanol Powered Tanker Starts Sea Trials

    First China-built Dual-fuel Methanol Powered Tanker Starts Sea Trials

    Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI) has started sea trials of the Stena Pro Patria, the first methanol-powered dual-fuel tanker constructed in China in what has been described as a 'watershed moment' in the development of methanol as an ...
  • Maryland seeks $100m from Evergreen to cover costs related to Ever Forward grounding

    Maryland seeks $100m from Evergreen to cover costs related to Ever Forward grounding

    The State of Maryland has asked Taiwanese liner Evergreen to establish a so-called responsibility fund to pay for costs related to the month-long grounding of its EVER FORWARD vessel in the state’s Chesapeake Bay.
 In a letter to Benjamin Tsai, ...
  • Seafarer lives don’t need to be risked during lifeboat drills

    Seafarer lives don’t need to be risked during lifeboat drills

    Seafarers are dying needlessly in lifeboat accidents when maritime legislation doesn’t actually require vessels to be manned during drills.
InterManager, the international trade association for ship and crew managers, is raising awareness of this ...
  • ClassNK issues Approval in Principle (AiP) for Ammonia-ready LNG-fueled Panamax Bulk Carrier developed by GSC

    ClassNK issues Approval in Principle (AiP) for Ammonia-ready LNG-fueled Panamax Bulk Carrier developed by GSC

    Leading Classification Society ClassNK has issued an Approval in Principle (AiP) for the design of an ammonia-ready LNG-fueled Panamax bulk carrier developed by Planning and Design Center for Greener Ships (GSC). Ammonia is expected to be used as ...
  • Six Drug-Smuggling Passengers Arrested in Santos, Brazil Preparing to Board Costa Diadema with 30 Kilos of Cocaine

    Six Drug-Smuggling Passengers Arrested in Santos, Brazil Preparing to Board Costa Diadema with 30 Kilos of Cocaine

    Brazilian law enforcement agencies arrested six people and confiscated 30 kilos of cocaine at the port of Santos, Brazil, according to the Brazilian news outlet G1 / Globo. The drug smugglers, five Brazilians and one Argentinian, were arrested at ...
  • Ship freed from Chesapeake Bay after being stuck for more than a month

    Ship freed from Chesapeake Bay after being stuck for more than a month

    At long last, the Ever Forward is free. After weeks of tugging, pulling, digging and dumping, the 1,095-foot cargo ship was pried from the muddy clutches of the Chesapeake Bay Sunday morning. Two pulling barges and five mighty tug boats manuevered ...
  • 34 Containers lost overboard - Completed preliminary assessment summary MV Francisca

    34 Containers lost overboard - Completed preliminary assessment summary MV Francisca

    SynopsisOn 31 October 2020, 34 containers were lost overboard from the Netherlands registered general cargo vessel Francisca, near Duncansby Head in the North Sea. Francisca was on passage from Iceland to the Netherlands when severe weather ...
  • German Retailer Lidl Charters and Buys Containerships for New Line

    German Retailer Lidl Charters and Buys Containerships for New Line

    A week after the news came out that German retailing giant Lidl, part of the Schwarz Group, had filed a trademark to start a new shipping line to transport its goods, the company has reportedly reached agreements to charter three vessels and acquire ...
  • MAIB - The fog of illusion freight ferry | grounding

    MAIB - The fog of illusion freight ferry | grounding

    Navigating in fog can mean that emerging situations are diffcult to understand and, sometimes, stop. A ro-ro freight ferry was inbound to its destination port on a summer morning. The weather was fne and the seas slight, although there were ...
  • 200 ships bunkered with contaminated fuel in the Port of Singapore

    200 ships bunkered with contaminated fuel in the Port of Singapore

    About 200 vessels have been supplied with contaminated bunker fuel in the latest environmental misconduct in the Port of Singapore. Of these, about 80 ships have reported various issues with their fuel pumps and engines, according to the Maritime ...
  • Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Seaborg sign partnership to develop Floating Nuclear Power Plant combined with hydrogen and ammonia plants

    Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Seaborg sign partnership to develop Floating Nuclear Power Plant combined with hydrogen and ammonia plants

    Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Seaborg on Monday (Apr11) announced signing a partnership agreement to develop floating nuclear power plants based on Seaborg's inherently safe Compact Molten Salt Reactor (CMSR). The agreement includes development ...
  • Containers being removed from ship stuck in Chesapeake Bay

    Containers being removed from ship stuck in Chesapeake Bay

    The U.S. Coast Guard is removing one container at a time in an effort to free a cargo ship that has been stuck in Chesapeake Bay for more than four weeks. NewsNation got an up-close look at the efforts to free the cargo ship EVER FORWARD The Coast ...
  • BROUWERSGRACHT LAUNCHED FROM DRY DOCK

    BROUWERSGRACHT LAUNCHED FROM DRY DOCK

    Newbuild m.v. BROUWERSGRACHT was launched from dry dock last Friday 8 April at Mawei shipyard in Fuzhou China. At the same time sister vessel m.v. BLOEMGRACHT was floated. M.v. BROUWERSGRACHT has been moved to the outfitting quay where the ...
  • Trinity Spirit Ship Blast Followed $200 Million Trail Of Debt Defaults

    Trinity Spirit Ship Blast Followed $200 Million Trail Of Debt Defaults

    The owners of an oil-production and storage ship had a history of financial problems before the vessel blew up in Nigerian waters two months ago. The TRINITY SPIRIT, which caught fire on Feb. 2, burned for more than 24 hours and left a stain of ...
  • Impact Today: New standard for vessel reporting needed to boost data quality, decarbonisation

    Impact Today: New standard for vessel reporting needed to boost data quality, decarbonisation

    A group of 14 organisations has released its new Vessel Reporting and Data Quality white paper, which calls for the maritime sector to create a new data standard aimed at evolving noon reports into holistic vessel reports to support vessel and ...
  • EU countries bet on floating LNG terminals to raise import capacity

    EU countries bet on floating LNG terminals to raise import capacity

    The war in Ukraine has focused attention on liquefied gas (LNG) to replace Russian supplies coming via pipeline. Germany, France and Italy are all planning to rent or acquire special floating terminals in order to increase import capacity. While ...
  • A Tanker’s Giant U-Turn Reveals Strains in the Market for Russian Oil

    A Tanker’s Giant U-Turn Reveals Strains in the Market for Russian Oil

    A tanker loaded with one million barrels of Russian oil set sail from Murmansk last month, headed for Philadelphia. Then, in the middle of the Atlantic, it did an abrupt U-turn. The ship, BEIJING SPIRIT, had apparently lost the buyer for its oil. ...
  • Grieg Edge’s green ammonia tanker design gets DNV’s approval

    Grieg Edge’s green ammonia tanker design gets DNV’s approval

    Classification society DNV has issued an Approval in Principle (AiP) for the design of a green ammonia tanker that also runs on green ammonia developed by LMG Marin, Wärtsilä and Grieg Edge. According to developers, the MS Green Ammonia got the AiP ...
  •  “I didn’t know that... !”  - passenger ferry | grounding

    “I didn’t know that... !” - passenger ferry | grounding

    In the early hours of a stormy winter’s day, a roll-on/roll-off passenger ferry (RoPax), which was laid up for the festive period, broke free from its moorings in winds gusting up to 55 knots (kts) (Figure 1). The master had anticipated storm force, ...
  • Auctions ahead for Dream, Star, Crystal Cruises ships (updated)

    Auctions ahead for Dream, Star, Crystal Cruises ships (updated)

    The fleet of insolvent Genting Hong Kong — those ships that sailed for Crystal Cruises, Dream Cruises and Star Cruises — will likely go to auction soon.Auctions are required as part of the legal liquidation process to clear any maritime liens ...
  • The IMO and WMO – Providing weather information to support safe navigation

    The IMO and WMO – Providing weather information to support safe navigation

    “ What maximum winds are expected in the storm area?” That is one of Standard Marine Communication Phrases under the International Maritime Organization (IMO) that officers in charge of navigation on ships, whatever their nationality, must be able ...
  • Maersk containership loses containers in North Pacific

    Maersk containership loses containers in North Pacific

    Another containership has reportedly fallen victim to storms in the Northern Pacific. Maersk is confirming reports that a chartered containership it operates suffered “a very serious incident,” with a collapse of container stacks and the loss of ...
  • Container carriers enjoy eye-watering $110 billion in 2021 operating profit

    Container carriers enjoy eye-watering $110 billion in 2021 operating profit

      Global shipping lines made an astounding operating profit (EBIT) of over $110 billion in 2021. According to analysis by Sea-Intelligence, the combined 2010-2020 operating profit across all years was a combined figure of $37.54 billion, CEO Alan ...
  • Just how extreme is China’s lead in the container port business?

    Just how extreme is China’s lead in the container port business?

    China is the world’s largest exporter of containerized goods, produces eight of every 10 new containers, is the leading builder of container ships and operates the fourth-largest liner company. It should come as no surprise that China overwhelmingly ...
  • CSSC receives DNV AiP certificate for ammonia-fuelled 7,000-unit capacity PCTC

    CSSC receives DNV AiP certificate for ammonia-fuelled 7,000-unit capacity PCTC

    China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) on Monday (21 March) said its subsidiary has recently received an Approval-in-Principle (AiP) certificate from classification society DNV for an ammonia-fuelled 7,000-unit capacity car carrier (PCTC). The ...
  • MOL's plan of large-scale dry bulk vessel with a hard sail system was certified at the Oshima shipyard

    MOL's plan of large-scale dry bulk vessel with a hard sail system was certified at the Oshima shipyard

    TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and Oshima Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. on Wednesday (Mar23) announced the introduction plan of large-scale dry bulk vessel with a hard sail system was certified as "Introduction plan of vessel with excellent ...
  • ‘Mysterious’: the $700m superyacht in Italy some say belongs to Putin

    ‘Mysterious’: the $700m superyacht in Italy some say belongs to Putin

    For several months, the mysterious 140-metre-long, six-floor superyacht has towered over the smaller boats in the shipyard in Marina di Carrara, a town on Italy’s Tuscan coast, arousing chatter among its people over the identity of its wealthy ...
  • Silverstream air bubble tech for 16,000 TEU containership fleet

    Silverstream air bubble tech for 16,000 TEU containership fleet

    UK’s cleantech company Silverstream Technologies has been selected to equip nine 16,000 TEU containerships with its air lubrication systems Silverstream unveiled the order on 22 March 2022, without disclosing any further details on the boxships or ...
  • U.S. start-up developing battery-swapping electric cargo ships

    U.S. start-up developing battery-swapping electric cargo ships

    New Orleans-based start-up is working to develop a fleet of smaller, more efficient, electric-powered ships to help decarbonise the shipping industry that is responsible for about 3% of all carbon emissions worldwide. A team of the U.S. Merchant ...
  • Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ Shipwreck Is Teeming With Bizarre Ocean Life

    Shackleton’s ‘Endurance’ Shipwreck Is Teeming With Bizarre Ocean Life

    Undersea footage reveals the ship’s diverse collection of sea stars, sponges, anemones, and even a rare deep-sea squat lobster During Ernest Shackleton's 1915 Antarctic expedition, his ship Endurance was crushed by ice. After 106 years, scientists ...
  • A DELIBERATELY SABOTAGED PILOTLADDER

    A DELIBERATELY SABOTAGED PILOTLADDER

    Already a few years ago, the fishery-inspection vessel of a European country wanted to conduct an inspection at sea of a fishing vessel. The fishing vessel was ordered to prepare a pilot ladder to allow the inspector to board the vessel. When the ...
  • THE FUEL TANK DESIGN DILEMMA [GREY POWER]

    THE FUEL TANK DESIGN DILEMMA [GREY POWER]

    Some of my best friends design ships for a living, but in their quest to devise dramatic solutions to the problems of decarbonising the shipping industry, I sometimes wonder if they might be going a bit over the top. I was looking recently at a ...
  • One is the loneliest number – the enduring practice of the “on board bill of lading”

    One is the loneliest number – the enduring practice of the “on board bill of lading”

    An original bill which has been carried on board has no practical value as evidence of title and the practice remains inherently risky because of the difficulty in verifying which party is entitled to possession of the cargo if none of the ...
  • North P&I and Standard Club announce merger plan to create new global marine insurance force

    North P&I and Standard Club announce merger plan to create new global marine insurance force

    Combination would establish a global marine insurer positioned to thrive in the face of current and emerging challenges and opportunities posed by digitalisation, recruitment, regulation and sustainability. North P&I and Standard Club have entered ...
  • ‘Scandalous betrayal’: UK MPs condemn P&O Ferries for mass sacking of 800 staff

    ‘Scandalous betrayal’: UK MPs condemn P&O Ferries for mass sacking of 800 staff

    Ministers and trade unions have condemned P&O Ferries’ mass sacking of 800 British seafarers to replace them with agency crew as shameful and “completely unacceptable”, amid furious calls for action against the company’s Dubai owners. P&O Ferries’ ...
  • Approval in Principle for containerized LNG solution developed by Marine Service GmbH and Newport Shipping

    Approval in Principle for containerized LNG solution developed by Marine Service GmbH and Newport Shipping

    Marine Service GmbH and Newport Shipping are proud to announce an Approval in Principle from Bureau Veritas (BV) for a jointly developed containerized LNG solution. The 40' ISO LNG Fuel Tank Container System is suitable for LNG-fuelled newbuildings ...
  • Carnival Cruise Line’s 50th Birthday – Five Decades of Sexual Assaults, Air and Water Pollution, and Avoiding U.S. Taxes and U.S. Wage and Labor Laws

    Carnival Cruise Line’s 50th Birthday – Five Decades of Sexual Assaults, Air and Water Pollution, and Avoiding U.S. Taxes and U.S. Wage and Labor Laws

    Yesterday was Carnival Cruise Line’s fiftieth (50th) birthday.  The internet was filled with celebratory tweets and Facebook postings from Carnival cruise fans and travel agents extolling the cruise line’s “family fun and entertainment.” There is ...
  • Maersk, Proman announce agreement on green methanol supply

    Maersk, Proman announce agreement on green methanol supply

    As part of today's agreement, Proman will aim to supply Maersk with 100,000 – 150,000 tonnes per year of green methanol from its new 200,000 tonnes per year methanol facility in development in North America. The project will be built by Proman with ...
  • Shipping’s Russian Nightmare is Becoming a Reality

    Shipping’s Russian Nightmare is Becoming a Reality

    The shipping industry is faced with a logistical and legal nightmare, in the aftermath of the events in Ukraine. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Intermodal said that “the escalating confrontation between Russia and Ukraine has the potential ...
  • Norsepower announces the installation of Rotor Sails on the world’s largest short sea ro-ro vessel

    Norsepower announces the installation of Rotor Sails on the world’s largest short sea ro-ro vessel

    Norsepower has announced an agreement signed with CLdN, the logistics specialist for road, sea and rail, to install two tilting Rotor Sails on board a 2018-built Ro-Ro vessel to improve ship fuel efficiency and carbon emissions reduction. ...
  • Offshore Wind Turbines Could Mess With Ships’ Radar Signals

    Offshore Wind Turbines Could Mess With Ships’ Radar Signals

    A new study finds that turbines can muddle ships' navigational systems, obscuring the location of smaller boats or creating misleading images on radar screens. OFFSHORE WIND DEVELOPMENT has the potential to transform the nation’s energy supply by ...
  • Usmanov’s Superyacht DILBAR Seized in Germany

    Usmanov’s Superyacht DILBAR Seized in Germany

    Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s superyacht, the world’s largest by volume, was seized by German authorities in Hamburg, according to Forbes. The German government has frozen the DILBAR, Usmanov’s 512-foot yacht, the publication said, citing ...
  • Seaworthiness: An Important Lesson for Carriers

    Seaworthiness: An Important Lesson for Carriers

    The obligation of seaworthiness is fundamental to contracts of carriage of goods by sea, but how far does that obligation reach? The award-winning shipping and maritime lawyers at Bahamas law firm ParrisWhittaker are highly experienced in advising ...
  • UK bans Russian ships from its ports

    UK bans Russian ships from its ports

    The ban includes any vessels owned or operated by anyone connected to Russia and authorities will also gain new powers to detain Russian vessels. The ban was introduced together with additional economic measures including against the Russian ...
  • Vehicles Carrier Felicity Ace Carrying Porsches, VWs, and Lamborghinis Sinks After Days on Fire

    Vehicles Carrier Felicity Ace Carrying Porsches, VWs, and Lamborghinis Sinks After Days on Fire

      The Felicity Ace, the cargo ship that caught fire while carrying thousands of brand new Volkswagen, Porsche, and Lamborghini vehicles, sunk Tuesday morning (Mar 01), according to a press statement. The ship, which was carrying around 4000 cars, ...
  • Wan Hai Lines pays $680,750 for breaching anti-pollution law in California

    Wan Hai Lines pays $680,750 for breaching anti-pollution law in California

    The California Air Resources Board has reached a settlement agreement with Wan Hai Lines (USA), part of Taiwanese shipping company Wan Hai Lines, for $680,750 for violations of the Ocean-Going Vessels At-Berth Regulation. The regulation aims to ...
  • Cosco Shipping now controls 5.2pc of all deadweight tonnage

    Cosco Shipping now controls 5.2pc of all deadweight tonnage

    CHINA's biggest shipping company, Cosco Shipping Group, carries 10 per cent of the world's cargo and operates over 5.2 per cent of the world's fleet by deadweight tonnage, reports Colchester's Seatrade Maritime News. Cosco maintained its position ...
  • Cachalot No 98

    Cachalot No 98

    Newsletter of the Southampton Master Mariners Club   Cachalot No. ...
  • Close quarters near miss between cruise vessel Maud and ro-ro ferry Gardenia Seaways

    Close quarters near miss between cruise vessel Maud and ro-ro ferry Gardenia Seaways

    Location: Near the North Shipwash Buoy, to the north of Harwich Haven Authority jurisdictional limits on the east coast of England. Completed preliminary assessment summary: Maud/Gardenia Seaways SynopsisAt about 0230 on 4 November 2021, the ...
  • ICS: Russian and Ukrainian seafarers make up 14.5% of global shipping workforce

    ICS: Russian and Ukrainian seafarers make up 14.5% of global shipping workforce

    The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), representing 80% of the world’s merchant fleet, has warned of supply chain disruption should the free movement of Ukrainian and Russian seafarers be impeded. The Seafarer Workforce Report, published in ...
  • The last thing Ukraine needs is a shipping crisis.

    The last thing Ukraine needs is a shipping crisis.

    Last week, the Joint War Committee placed the Russian and Ukrainian parts of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in its top-risk category. The JWC is the little-known but powerful insurance industry body that classifies regions of the world according ...
  • Lithium-ion Batteries From Electric Vehicles Aboard The Felicity Ace Are Keeping The Fire Alive

    Lithium-ion Batteries From Electric Vehicles Aboard The Felicity Ace Are Keeping The Fire Alive

    Firefighters are struggling to put out a fire that broke out last week Wednesday on a vessel carrying thousands of luxury cars, which is adrift off the coast of Portugal’s Azores islands, a port official said, adding it was unclear when they would ...
  • Ocean Infinity broadens remote fleet plans with order of 85m robotic vessels from VARD

    Ocean Infinity broadens remote fleet plans with order of 85m robotic vessels from VARD

    Ocean Infinity has contracted VARD for the design and construction of a new series of six multi-purpose offshore vessels, all of which will be operated from shore and will eventually utilise green ammonia as fuel. This landmark order of six, ...
  • Why did 20,000+ TEU Mumbai Maersk run aground

    Why did 20,000+ TEU Mumbai Maersk run aground

    A misjudgment during navigation was the probable cause of the grounding of the 20,568 TEU Mumbai Maersk off the German island of Wangerooge earlier this month, an investigation has found. On 2 February 2022, at around 11:05 P.M., the ...
  • Dutch Coastguard Searches For Lost Shipping Containers

    Dutch Coastguard Searches For Lost Shipping Containers

    The Dutch coastguard said on Saturday it was trying to locate 26 empty shipping containers lost on the North Sea during Storm Eunice on Friday. The Panama-registered container ship MARCOS V lost the 40-foot (12-meter) containers around the Dutch ...
  • Pilots are not advisors to Masters

    Pilots are not advisors to Masters

    According to the International Group of P & I Clubs’ “Report on P&I claims involving vessels under pilotage 1999-2019”, over the last twenty years, there were 1,046 incidents in which pilot error either caused or contributed to those events. The ...
  • Biggest 'rogue wave' ever recorded confirmed in Pacific Ocean

    Biggest 'rogue wave' ever recorded confirmed in Pacific Ocean

    In November 2020, just off the coast of British Columbia in Canada, a huge wave was measured as being 17.6 meters (58ft) high, smashing all previous world records. While the four-storey wall of water is impressively tall, what makes it special and ...
  • Vehicles Carrier Felicity Ace full of luxury cars on fire and adrift in the middle of the Atlantic

    Vehicles Carrier Felicity Ace full of luxury cars on fire and adrift in the middle of the Atlantic

    An abandoned cargo ship packed with cars is adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, after a rapidly-spreading fire on board forced the crew to escape. The 656 foot-long Felicity Ace roll-on/roll-off car-carrying ship caught fire in the North Atlantic on ...
  • Conversion of Hidden Gem to the world’s first polymetallic nodule vessel nears completion in Rotterdam harbour.

    Conversion of Hidden Gem to the world’s first polymetallic nodule vessel nears completion in Rotterdam harbour.

      Conversion of HIDDEN GEM to the world’s first polymetallic nodule vessel nears completion in Rotterdam harbour. There is a real buzz on board as final deliveries of custom-engineered equipment arrive. The project team and crew are busy ...
  • China’s New Submarine Is Unlike Anything In Western Navies

    China’s New Submarine Is Unlike Anything In Western Navies

    The U.S. Navy only operates nuclear-powered submarines. China meanwhile never stopped operating conventional submarines even though they are less capable. This has advantages and disadvantages. But a new submarine pushes this difference further. It ...
  • Wärtsilä and Grimaldi unveil new filter system to tackle ocean microplastics

    Wärtsilä and Grimaldi unveil new filter system to tackle ocean microplastics

      The technology group Wärtsilä, together with the shipping company Grimaldi Group, have unveiled a new system that uses exhaust gas scrubber washwater to tackle the amount of microplastics in the world’s oceans; a critical and growing global ...
  • Grain de Sail orders its next wind-powered freighter

    Grain de Sail orders its next wind-powered freighter

    French company Grain de Sail has ordered its future cargo sailboat from compatriot shipbuilder Piriou, expanding its carbon-free maritime fleet. The shipbuilding contract was signed during the One Ocean Summit week in Brest aboard Grain de Sail 1 — ...
  • Colombia takes step toward recovering 200 tons of treasure from

    Colombia takes step toward recovering 200 tons of treasure from "holy grail" of shipwrecks

    Colombia has taken a step toward recovering a long-lost Spanish wreck and its fabled riches, but it may be a rough ride as Spain and native Bolivians have also staked claims to the booty. Maritime experts consider the wreck of the San Jose to be the ...
  • Over 30% of Crew Members on Silversea’s Silver Cloud Test Positive for COVID-19

    Over 30% of Crew Members on Silversea’s Silver Cloud Test Positive for COVID-19

    Yesterday, seventy-two (72) out of two-hundred and thirty (230) crew members on the Silver Cloud operated by Silversea Cruises (Silversea Expeditions) tested positive for COVID-19, according to a crew member on the cruise ship who wishes to remain ...
  • Historic First Bunker Fueling for LNG-Fueled Newcastlemax

    Historic First Bunker Fueling for LNG-Fueled Newcastlemax

    First of 13 ABS Class Newcastlemax Vessels Ordered by Eastern Pacific Shipping The first LNG-fueled Newcastlemax bulk carrier in an order of 13 ABS-Classed vessels for Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) has taken on its first load of LNG bunker fuel at ...
  • Three dead, four still missing after FPSO explosion in Nigeria

    Three dead, four still missing after FPSO explosion in Nigeria

    At least three people have reportedly died while four are still missing following an explosion of the oil production and storage vessel, FPSO Trinity Spirit, in waters offshore Nigeria. The vessel exploded last Wednesday while 10 crew members were ...
  • Energy Observer unveils zero-emission, LH2-powered cargo ship concept - Energy Observer 2

    Energy Observer unveils zero-emission, LH2-powered cargo ship concept - Energy Observer 2

    The main features of Energy Observer 2 are: • Length: 120 meters • Width: 22 meters • Draft: 5,5 meters • The surface of the wings: 1450 m² • Deadweight: 5,000 tons • Containers: 240 TEU (Twenty feet equivalent) • Ro-ro bridge: 480 linear meters ...
  • South African icebreaker begins expedition to search Ernest Shackleton’s wrecked ship Endurance off Antarctica

    South African icebreaker begins expedition to search Ernest Shackleton’s wrecked ship Endurance off Antarctica

    The search for Ernest Shackleton’s wrecked ship Endurance has begun. In the endeavour, a South African icebreaker has already departed.    In 1915, Endurance had sunk off the coast of Antarctica. It happened after it was slowly crushed by pack ice. ...
  • Historian warns of sunken WW2 ship packed with tons of TNT in Thames

    Historian warns of sunken WW2 ship packed with tons of TNT in Thames

    A historian says he is a “nervous wreck” about plans to cut off the masts of a sunken WW2 cargo ship laden with explosives jutting out of the River Thames. The SS Richard Montgomery, nicknamed the £1 billion timebomb based on the amount of damage ...
  • Maersk vessels live feed meteorologists around the globe with weather data

    Maersk vessels live feed meteorologists around the globe with weather data

    A.P. Moller - Maersk has in collaboration with the National Meteorological Service of Germany, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), installed automated weather stations on 50 of its vessels. While crossing the largest oceans, the vessels transmit live data ...
  • Crystal Symphony and Crystal Serenity Arrested in Freeport, Bahamas

    Crystal Symphony and Crystal Serenity Arrested in Freeport, Bahamas

    The Crystal Symphony and the Crystal Serenity have been arrested late Friday night, February 4th, according to crew members on both ships. Both Crystal cruise ships are in waters near the port in Freeport, Bahamas. Earlier yesterday, we were ...
  • FedEx Execs Join Port of Hueneme and Navy Leadership to Celebrate Arrival of First Container Vessel with Goods from Asia

    FedEx Execs Join Port of Hueneme and Navy Leadership to Celebrate Arrival of First Container Vessel with Goods from Asia

    Joined by FedEx executives, Dr. Udo Lange, President/CEO of FedEx Logistics; Patrick Moebel, President of FedEx Trade Networks; and Jim Rinchiuso Managing Director, Global Ocean Product for FedEx Logistics; the Port of Hueneme, Navy Base Ventura ...
  • Bahamas a top-performing flag state, says ICS report

    Bahamas a top-performing flag state, says ICS report

    The Bahamas has been confirmed as a top-performing flag state, achieving positive scores across all 19 categories of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS)’s 2020-21 Flag State Performance Table. In ICS’s latest report, The Bahamas scored ...
  • Burning questions remain over fire safety

    Burning questions remain over fire safety

    LARGE fires on containerships are newsworthy events that gain attention even outside the world of shipping. In the past year, however, there has been a dearth of these incidents. With the exception of the fires on board X-Press Pearl and Zim ...
  • World’s largest cruise ship delivered in France

    World’s largest cruise ship delivered in France

    US-based cruise major Royal Caribbean International has taken delivery of Wonder of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, after three years of construction. A traditional flag-changing ceremony took place in Marseille, France on 27 January, ...
  • Boskalis successfully salvages ship just off the Dutch coast

    Boskalis successfully salvages ship just off the Dutch coast

    Boskalis has successfully salvaged the rudderless cargo vessel Julietta D off the Dutch coast. The vessel ran into trouble during yesterday's Storm Corrie. The Julietta D was anchored off the coast of IJmuiden (the Netherlands) but got into ...
  • MOL announces the world's first successful sea trial of autonomous sailing on a commercial container ship voyage

    MOL announces the world's first successful sea trial of autonomous sailing on a commercial container ship voyage

    "Automated Mooring" using an Automatic Flight Drone TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) today announced that together with its two group companies and the following consortium partners have successfully concluded the world's first sea trial of ...
  • Little-used Leatherman dock a godsend for troubled ship

    Little-used Leatherman dock a godsend for troubled ship

    THE troubled 13,900-TEU MADRID BRIDGE , which suffered a collapsed container stack mid-Atlantic, has at last found a berth at the little used Hugh K Leatherman terminal in Port of Charleston, reports London's Loadstar. The spanking new Leatherman ...
  • First Woman Commander of the U.S. Navy’s Oldest Ship Takes the Helm

    First Woman Commander of the U.S. Navy’s Oldest Ship Takes the Helm

    Billie Farrell is the new captain of the U.S.S. “Constitution,” a 1797 frigate that now serves as a floating museum. Farrell relieved John Benda, who’d served as the ship’s captain since February 2020. For the first time in its 224-year history, ...
  • COSCO Shipping’s fleet now boasts nine heavy lift vessels

    COSCO Shipping’s fleet now boasts nine heavy lift vessels

    COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers took delivery of its 80,000dwt semi-submersible vessel “Xin Yao Hua” on 19 January 2022, bringing its fleet of semi-submersible vessels to nine. According to COSCO’s statement on Monday, this makes its fleet the ...

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