The global merchant fleet has surpassed the 2bn dwt mark for the first time, doubling in size in just 13 years, and could be on track to hit 3bn dwt by 2033, according to data from Clarkson Research. Clarkson data shows that at the start of this ...

Russia will pay EUR 2.7 million (USD 3 million) to Greenpeace in compensation for unlawful detention of its ship Arctic Sunrise and 30 crewmembers in 2013.  This is a result of an agreement reached between Russia and the Netherlands, the ...

The UK Chamber has welcomed changes by the UK Ship Register (UKSR) that will allow owners from a broader group of countries to register their vessels in the UK. UKSR announced this week that it is to expand its ownership eligibility, allowing more ...

The MS Magellan, owned by the Greek company Global Cruise Lines, has received a fine for violating the legislation on fuel sulphur limits in the world heritage fjords. According to the Norwegian Maritime Authority, the cruise ship was hit with a ...

Norsepower Oy Ltd., the leading provider of low maintenance, software operated, data verified auxiliary renewable wind energy propulsion systems, today announced that independent test results showed that Norsepower’s Rotor Sail technology has great ...

While debates rage about how to restore America’s manufacturing, military, and even moral foundations to periods of perceived glory, little attention is being given to the crisis in shipping. This aspect of national decline is a grave issue for ...

The ill-fated bulker Solomon Trader has been successfully refloated in the Solomon Islands, Korea Protection and Indemnity Club (KP&I) said. The operation was completed on May 11, 2019, and the 73,592 dwt bulker is currently undergoing ...

Dutch shipyard De Hoop Lobith has delivered Celebrity Flora, a new expedition cruise ship, to the US-based Celebrity Cruises. The 5,922 GT newbuild was handed over to its owner in Rotterdam on May 13, 2019, almost four months after its ...

The Grimaldi Group-operated car carrier Grande Europa caught fire off the island of Mallorca, Spain, on May 15, the Spanish sea rescue society informed. The fire on the 51,714 GT ship has been brought under control by three fire fighting ...

In an important decision, which will be of interest across the maritime sector, the English High Court has clarified the scope of a typical time charter party capture/seizure/arrest clause in the context of ship piracy, and of a specific rider ...

KNUD E. HANSEN has designed the first generation of LNG-powered ultra-large RoRo vessels for the newly-established Swedish company Wallenius-SOL. Up to four vessels have been ordered at Yantai CIMC Raffles Offshore Ltd., China, for whom KNUD E. ...

SEA-KIT, a 12m-long uncrewed surface vessel (USV) designed and built in Essex, UK, docked in the Belgian port city of Oostende earlier this week following a successful transit from West Mersea. The voyage, which lasted 22 hours, represents the first ...

Three of the largest ports in Europe – Rotterdam, Antwerp and Ghent – are to be used to capture and bury 10m tonnes of CO2 emissions under the North Sea in what will be the biggest project of its kind in the world. The ports, which account for ...

A tanker sunk by a German U-boat in January 1942 is now leaking oil and the U.S. Coast Guard is evaluating potential oil removal operations as it fears leaks from the ship could pose a risk to the environment. The service announced last month that ...

Maritime lawyers at Lipcon, Margulies, Alsina & Winkleman have filed a Class Action lawsuit against Viking Cruises regarding the Viking Sky incident from March 2019. The law firm said that the lawsuit involves Viking Ocean’s “knowing and ...

DNV GL, the technical advisor to the oil and gas industry, has developed a solution that reduces the risk of offshore floating vessel mooring line failure going undetected by replacing physical sensors with a machine learning algorithm that ...

The Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) heavy transport vessel Blue Marlin was hijacked on Sunday approximately 80 nautical miles offshore Equatorial Guinea. Through the professional response of the crew and the coordinated support from the ...

The European Union needs to give the audited South Asian ship recycling facilities “a fair chance” to get on the EU list, a recent report issued by the European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA) finds. The report is based on ECSA’s ...

New Proposals to limit the speed of ships as a way of reducing carbon emissions will have the opposite effect, the UK Chamber of Shipping has warned. The proposals by the French and Greek authorities will be discussed at a meeting of the ...

Russia’s ambassador Andrey Denisov has told Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post that the country intends to collaborate with China to develop an Arctic shipping route. The announcement came as Moscow builds new ports to boost shipments along the ...

As technology evolves, industries evolve with it. A clear example of how innovation can positively affect an industry is to look at the capabilities of Nanotechnology, and its impact on the shipping industry.For the average joe, nanotechnology ...

Loss of life arising from bulk casualties, that occurred over the past ten years, was mostly caused by cargo failure and liquefaction, according to a report from Intercargo. Reported bulk carrier casualties during the period from 2009 to 2018 ...

Leaks discovered on the wreck of ro-ro container vessel Grande America were plugged by remotely operated vessels in an operation which concluded on April 19. The operation was carried out in the Bay of Biscay where the vessel sank on March ...

The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Maritime Administrator has completed its Marine Casualty Investigation Report into the loss of the very large ore carrier (VLOC) Stellar Daisy - with the ship's classification society Korean Register ...

Cases of crew abandonment are not diminishing despite greater global attention being paid to the nasty practice. Worldwide, 4,866 seafarers on a total of 336 vessels have been recorded as abandoned onboard ship, in records kept by the International ...

The EU Social Partners in the maritime sector, ECSA and ETF, welcomed the adoption of the proposal for a Regulation establishing a European Maritime Single Window environment. After it was adopted by the Members of the European Parliament, the ...

A ro-ro passenger ferry left its berth with 320 passengers, 72 crew and several cars and trucks on board. The planned manoeuvre was to clear the berth, increase speed, and steer a curved track, using port helm, to pass between the two breakwaters at ...

D’Amico Shipping Italia has admitted discharging oily waste and other pollutants into the sea and then lying about it, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito and Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Bossert Clark announced. The company pleaded guilty before ...

Technology company ABS and Cargo Incident Notification System (CINS) representatives will be working together to set out guidelines for practices that would help reduce risks posed by the stowage of dangerous goods on containerships. ABS said it ...

After two decades of relying on Chinese demand for iron ore imports, cape owners today have been told they’ll need to wean themselves off this cash cow. In a report entitled It’s the steel production, stupid!, BIMCO’s chief shipping analyst Peter ...

2017 was an especially bad year for fatal naval accidents. More recently the Norwegian frigate KNM Helge Ingstad collided with an oil tanker and is was run onto rocks in a vain attempt to prevent her sinking. There have always been serious accidents ...

A federal judge has threatened to temporarily block Carnival Corp. from docking cruise ships at ports in the United States as punishment for a possible probation violation. Carnival currently has three ships based at Port Canaveral: the Breeze, ...

MacAndrews whose origins date to 1770 had operated the containership RANGER (circa 800TEU) docked in Dublin Port at the DSG terminal before the merger took place on 1 April with CMA-CGM's subsidiary Containerships which also operate out of Belfast ...

  Only nine shipyards, out of 26, on the EU list of approved recycling facilities are realistically open for ship recycling, a study commissioned by international shipping association BIMCO finds. Furthermore, only three of the 26 demolition yards ...

The technology group Wärtsilä has launched its RS24 high-resolution radar, the world’s first commercially available K-band maritime radar. By detecting far smaller objects and at a much higher radar resolution than conventional S or X-band radars, ...

An anchor handling tug supply (AHTS) vessel was required to berth alongside for a routine dive inspection, so its master contacted a nearby port it visited regularly. The master requested a pilot and advised that the AHTS vessel’s draught on arrival ...

Panama-flagged roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) ship Al Fayrouz caught fire while underway in the Red Sea on April 8. According to Saudi Arabian Border Guards, the 101-meter was in international waters, 60 nautical miles off Saudi Arabia’s Farasan Islands, ...

Keppel Offshore & Marine Ltd has, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Keppel Singmarine Pte Ltd, embarked on the development of an autonomous tug, to be operated by Keppel Smit Towage. It is expected to be one of Singapore's first autonomous ...

The Philippines, the world’s dominant source of seafarers this century, is coming under severe pressure with the number of deployed crew dropping drastically last year and a host of top managers warning today that the country’s manning preeminence ...

A 20,000 gross tonnage cargo ship was unberthing with the aid of tugs. The tugs were each using a ship’s line for towing. Each line passed through a panama fairlead and was secured to a set of mooring bitts. As one of the tugs began to increase its ...

Nobu Su, the disgraced former shipping magnate, is completing his first week in a British prison, having been been found guilty last Friday on 15 of 17 counts of contempt of court. Su, once of one of Asia’s largest shipowners, in charge of ...

Rewind 200 years and the only women found on a cruise ship were the carved wooden figureheads of topless ladies (an offering to the oceans in exchange for calm weather), attached to the bow. Women had no place onboard because they were believed to ...

Avoiding overcapacity and unsustainably low freight rates is still a major challenge ten years after the massive downturn of 2008, Simon Bennett, Deputy Secretary General of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), stated. “In that time ...

A passenger ferry was attempting to moor on a berth with a strong groundswell in strong winds when, without warning, one of its mooring line bollards was ripped from the deck. The ferry had to be taken out of service for several days to facilitate ...

Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, the sole builder of China’s large LNG carriers, has teamed up with Norwegian classification society DNV GL for development of what the company said would be the world’s largest LNG carrier. The state-run shipbuilder ...

Four crew members of a Liberia-flagged container vessel have been kidnapped by pirates off Cameroon.  The incident involving the 1,100 TEU Contship Oak occurred on March 30, 2019, according to information provided by VesselsValue. Pirates attacked ...

Strong winds and tidal streams were forecast when the master of a small general cargo vessel was forced to change his plans and anchor overnight in an estuary to await a bunker barge. The vessel had not been able to take bunkers when alongside, and ...

One of the world's largest cruise ships was today involved in a major accident at the Grand Bahama Shipyard. Tribune sources and social media videos said the 6,300 passenger Oasis of the Seas was in Dry Dock No. 2 when the incident, which collapsed ...

The Canadian government is planning to introduce new legislation to modernize Canada’s pilotage service for commercial ships. The government has indicated that the amendments will focus on strengthening the governance of pilotage authorities, ...

Hydrogen could fuel the way forward as the shipping industry sets a goal to shift to renewables, according to Yaskawa Environmental Energy/The Switch. “Renewables and alternative fuels are attracting increasing interest, driven by greater ...

SERIOUS ferry accidents tend to happen in faraway countries of which we know little, other than that their poverty and extreme dependence on water transport coincide in a fatal conjunction. They are mostly domestic ferries and poorly regulated, ...

UK classification society, Lloyd's Register (LR) has released a new airborne noise emission notation (ABN) and ShipRight procedure to meet increasing demand for a standard and methodology to control airborne noise emissions from ships. As with ...

SummaryOn 29 September 2018, the UK registered roll-on roll-off passenger ferry Red Falcon and the privately-owned motor cruiser Phoenix collided in the Thorn Channel, Southampton, England. Both vessels were heading for Cowes on the Isle of Wight. ...

Low lubricating oil pressure is likely the cause of the engine failure aboard the 2017-built cruise ship Viking Sky, preliminary findings from the Norwegian Maritime Authority showed. The authority has worked together with the ship’s classification ...

Bernhard Schulte Cruise Services (BSCS) has been awarded technical management of Jalesh Cruises’ new vessel, MS Karnika, (formerly Pacific Jewel) (see also CruiseMapper), India’s first dedicated domestic cruise operation. The 70,285-ton, ...

China’s Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co. has contracted ABB to supply a power and propulsion package for the Asian country’s first domestically-built cruise ship. The integrated package to be delivered will also include two Azipod steerable ...

As the shipping industry is progressing, it is becoming increasingly important for seafarers to be proficient in Maritime English. While you, definitely, can buy essays and get your regular English-related assignments completed from the ...

The 5,095 TEU containership CMA CGM White Shark was successfully refueled with sustainable marine biofuel oil while calling at Rotterdam on March 23, 2019. The test, announced earlier this month, is said to represent a major step towards the ...

Maltese-flagged LNG tanker, ASEEM collided with the anchored Hong Kong-flagged VLCC tanker SHINYO OCEAN in the evening of March the 24th at Fujairah Anchorage, UAE.  The incident occurred at approximately 20:05 UTC on Mar 24,2019. Reportedly, the ...

The Viking Sky was carrying 1,373 passengers and crew, going from Norway's Arctic north to the southern city of Stavanger, when it had engine trouble along Norway's rough, frigid western coast. Struggling in heavy seas to avoid being dashed on the ...

Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line failed a recent sanitation inspection undertaken by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in New Orleans, Louisiana. The inspection, which was conducted on March 10, 2019, noted that NCL failed to ...

Rogue waves - huge swells that can appear from calm seas - are occurring less often but becoming more extreme, data from the US coast suggests. In the largest study of its kind, scientists analysed 20 years of observations from buoys situated along ...

The recent reports of container ship fires has once more focussed those in the container supply chain on safety issues related to the incorrect processing of dangerous goods. The nascent Cargo Integrity campaign initiated by the international ...

A Cosco ship design subsidiary has completed designs for a record-breaking 25,000 teu ship. Shanghai Ship and Shipping Research Institute (SSSRI), a unit of Cosco Shipping, has got the design approved by CSSC No.708 Institute, part of the nation’s ...

The shipping industry could see more slow steaming and transhipment being triggered as part of the IMO 2020 sulphur rule, according to shipping consultancy Drewry. “Shippers rightfully want more transparency regarding how the new fuel surcharge ...

Recently on board the Wellington on behalf of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners, I presented a lecture on the Costa Concordia Affair to a full house. I wrote the paper after studying the incident for several months. I believe that my ...

A recent article by a respected company offering intelligent navigation systems highlighted the elephant in the shipping world’s latest room: the seeming reluctance of some ship owners to fully embrace new technology. In a point well made, it was ...

To all Members, The latest IFSMA Newsletter (No.24) is now available on our website.<https://www.ifsma.org/newsletters.html> Also on the website you will find reports from the IMO Meetings for Pollution Prevention & Response (PPR 6)  and Ship ...

Ro-ro cargo ship GRANDE AMERICA capsized and sank on Mar 12 at around 1520 LT, in some 180 nm west of French coast. Starboard list was steadily growing, exact cause yet unknown – salvors were trying to dose fire with a lot of water, but yet, hardly ...

Korea Protection and Indemnity Club (KP&I) has appointed the US-based maritime salvage company Resolve Marine to oversee the Solomon Trader incident response in the Solomon Islands. Earlier this week, some onboard power of the grounded bauxite ...

A boxship operated by Japan’s Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) hit severe weather yesterday morning in the Atlantic resulting in a number of container stacks at the aft of the ship collapsing. The 9,600 teu Helsinki Bridge was en route from Boston to ...

This year signifies a year for dry cargo owners to prepare their vessels in view of landmark changes in shipping, the International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners (Intercargo) noted during its meetings in Hong Kong on March 4 and 5, 2019. The ...

Perpetrators tried to board a containership owned by Singapore’s Pacific International Lines (PIL) while the vessel was sailing on the high sea in the Gulf of Guinea on February 21, 2019. More than four men armed with guns onboard an unlit fast ...

Following last month’s news of 304,000 U.S. jobs created in January, Transportation Institute (TI), a leading maritime association which advocates and works for sound national maritime policy in the United States, today announced a 30% increase in ...

Norwegian frigate HNoMS Helge Ingstad was successfully transported to the country’s main navy base after spending over four months almost completely submerged following the collision with tanker Sola TS in November 2018. The frigate arrived at ...

As the industry sails towards the International Maritime Organization’s impending sulphur cap regulation, there seems to be a rise in opposition to one of the widely accepted solutions to the 2020 sulphur cap, the open-loop exhaust gas treatment ...

Panamax container ship SAFMARINE NOKWANDA struck Neopanamax container ship TIANJIN while berthing at Busan Container Terminal at around 0800 LT Mar 2. SAFMARINE NOKWANDA struck TIANJIN stern, inflicting serious cargo damages, with a number of ...

A $30m bulk carrier that’s spilling oil in the Solomon Islands may have run aground because of a possible breach of the international safety management code because there may not have been enough crew members on night watch despite a cyclone ...

The 150-member crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star fought a fire at approximately 9 p.m. PST Feb. 10 that broke out in the ship’s incinerator room about 650 miles north of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. After initial response efforts using ...

Costa Cruises took delivery of Costa Venezia, its first ship designed specifically for the Chinese market, at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone on February 28. The 135,500 gross ton Costa Venezia is part of an expansion plan that includes a ...

A Russian cargo ship smashed into a major highway bridge near the port of Busan, South Korea during afternoon rush hour on Thursday, damaging the vessel and tearing a hole in the bridge's steel structure. The vessel was later detained by the Korea ...

Corvus Energy has signed a contract with Norwegian Electric Systems (NES) for the marine world’s largest battery package for hybrid powered vessel to be installed on board Havila Kystruten’s coastal vessels. Big step for the cruising industry“This ...

ACCOMMODATION on ships today, according to seafarers who talk to their friends from the welfare agencies, is indistinguishable from that found in institutions.Devoid of any real comfort and designed to be easy to clean and impersonal, like what you ...

The operation has begun to raise a Norwegian frigate that sank last year in a harbor north of Bergen following a collision with an oil tanker. Anders Penna of the salvage company in charge of raising the KNM Helge Ingstad says it is “very complex ...

In preparation for the upcoming global sulphur cap, set to enter into force in January 2020, many owners opted to install exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) on their vessels to attain compliance. The systems are suitable for both newbuildings, as ...

Japanese companies Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha (K Line) and Technos Mihara have launched a development project using “an innovative method” for ship hull inspection and maintenance by a drone and image analysis system. According to K Line, the company ...

On Thursday, crewmembers aboard the U.S.-flagged boxship Matsonia noticed a sheen around their vessel shortly after mooring at Oakland, and a dive inspection revealed a leaking crack located 15 feet below the waterline.  After they spotted the ...

High usage of marine electronics in vessels is creating a huge demand for Marine Electronics Tester and are significantly driving the global Marine Electronics Tester market. Equipment and materials used in the vessel for construction and operation ...

On 10 December 2017, the UK registered ro-ro passenger ferry Pride of Kent struck a jetty and then grounded while departing Calais, France. The ferry was re-floated later that day and subsequently moved to a berth where the passengers disembarked. ...

DP World PLC announces the acquisition of the holding company of P&O Ferries and P&O Ferrymasters for a purchase consideration of GBP322 million. DP World PLC announces the acquisition of the holding company of P&O Ferries and P&O Ferrymasters ...

The voyage data recorder (VDR) of the sunken Stellar Daisy has been located and retrieved, according to Korea’s Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. Survey and ocean exploration company Ocean Infinity, utilizing the vessel Seabed Constructor ...

Authorities in Solomon Islands are working against time and the weather to try and prevent what they say could be an environmental disaster, if oil spills from a bulk carrier that's been grounded on a reef on the remote island of Rennell, south of ...

The sound part of the Maersk Honam, which was hit by a serious fire in March 2018, is now on its way to South Korea, where it will be rebuilt. The containership’s 228.5-metres-long section from midship to stern section was loaded aboard the ...

Navis, a part of Cargotec Corporation, and the provider of on premise and collaborative stowage planning solutions, announced that Ocean Network Express (ONE) has broken the last reported world record for the largest amount of cargo ever stowed – ...

A total of 198 containers have been identified to most likely be a total loss due to the fire which broke out last month on board Hapag-Lloyd’s containership Yantian Express. The cargo in the 198 containers will not be inspected and will be sent ...

  DNV GL has been awarded a contract for the classification of the passenger sailing ship Sea Cloud Spirit, built by Metalships & Docks in Vigo, Spain. Representatives from both companies came together in Vigo this week to sign the agreement. ...

Shipyards in South Korea are trying to forge a new shape for the industrial sector that underpins global shipping. The merger of Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. being engineered in Seoul promises to ...

The number of containers that fell from MSC Zoe in early January 2019 has jumped to 345, Dutch public works and water management department Rijkswaterstaat informed. The authority cited the boxship’s owner, Swiss Mediterranean Shipping Company ...

Qatar plans to order 60 liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, Qatari Minister of Energy Saad bin Sherida Al-Kaabi unveiled at a summit held between Qatar and South Korea. A Qatari delegation had recently been dispatched to Korea to study the ...

Yet another container vessel has caught fire – the latest casualty is the 9,200 teu APL Vancouver, off the Vietnamese coast en route from China to Singapore. The blaze started in the early hours of 31 January and with no injuries to the crew ...