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 ...

Introducing Orcelle Wind – our wind-powered pure car and truck carrier capable of achieving up to 90% reduced emissions compared to today’s most efficient vessels – which we hope to have ready for the high seas by 2025. The transoceanic shipping ...

Two years after a catastrophic oil spill in the vicinity of the UNESCO listed World Heritage Site, the Solomon Islands government is dealing with another similar incident. A Panama-flagged bulker has been accused of deliberately discharging heavy ...

When Turkish police arrested shipping magnate Mübariz Mansimov Gurbanoğlu at his Istanbul home one Sunday last March, his legal woes set off a chain of events that have decimated Palmali Shipping, his once-flourishing maritime empire. Now a dozen of ...

During an official meeting with the government of the Russian Federation, Igor Tonkovidov, President and CEO of PAO Sovcomflot, reported to Yury Trutnev, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, on progress with the experimental round trip voyage of the LNG ...

Nearly six months on from its grounding in pristine waters off Mauritius salvage operations to remove the stern of the Wakashio newcastlemax have got underway this week. The delicate process to remove the stern from a coral reef is being undertaken ...

The case was widely reported in the Italian press whereas the U.S. media has not yet commented on the story. The MSC cruise ship left Genoa last Sunday on a seven-day cruise. The passenger who tested positive for the virus was isolated, as was his ...

\ A.P. Moller - Maersk speeds up on decarbonisation with a methanol-fueled feeder vessel on the water in 2023, piloting a scalable carbon neutral product to customers and offering fuel suppliers incentive to scale production of the fuels of the ...

The X-Bow allows for possible lower level forward placement of the ship’s control-bridge above and immediately behind the bow of future container ships. Such ships would carry containers to the rear of and stacked to higher elevation than the ...

Newly released U.S. Coast Guard video offers visceral proof of just how extreme the congestion has become at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The new view from above reveals a vast armada of container ships scattered at anchor across ...

The criminal case stemming from a 2019 accident in which the cruise ship MSC Opera hit a river cruise ship and the dock while arriving in Venice has been concluded with an agreement that will see jail time for the captain and crew blamed for the ...

VARD, one of the major global designers and shipbuilders of specialized vessels, announced that Orange Marine has again selected ship design from VARD’s extensive design portfolio when expanding their fleet of cable ships. This time specifically ...

Calling it a “test initiative to help decarbonize Michelin's logistics operations,” the French manufacturer committed to the transportation of containers of its product from Halifax, Canada to Saint-Nazaire - Montoir de Bretagne, France as soon as ...

Danish logistics giant Maersk has filed a lawsuit against commodity trader Glencore Ltd over contaminated bunker fuel supplied to two of its containerships. Based on the court documents filed on Friday, February 5, with the New York District Court, ...

The vessel design features a patented triple-wing rig as well as a new diesel-electric ship drive system that eliminates CO2, NOX, SOX and particulate matter. The True Zero design also incorporated large solar arrays, carbon capture, optimised hull ...

French cleantech company Ecoslops has unveiled a new environmentally-friendly initiative aimed at producing bunker fuel from oily waste in Ghana. On 8 February 2021, the company announced the signature of the fourth letter of intent for its ...

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A Neopanamax containership operated by Swiss shipping major Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) lost 41 empty containers overboard in the Pacific on 29 January 2021. The ship in question is the 15,000 TEU MSC Aries, built at Hyundai Heavy ...

The Government of Canada continues to monitor the evolving COVID-19 pandemic and the impact it is having on the marine and tourism sectors. Keeping Canadians and transportation workers safe and healthy are top priorities for Transport ...

Supertankers transport about one-fifth of the global oil demand. But, with a fall in global consumption, many of these humongous tankers are scheduled to get beached in South Asian beaches in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India to be blowtorched and ...

French shipbuilder Chantiers De’l Atlantique has delivered MSC Virtuosa, MSC Cruises’ newest Meraviglia-Plus II cruise ship. As a sister ship to MSC Grandiosa, the newbuild features a length of 331 meters, a width of 43 meters and a maximum ...

Marine claims consultancy WK Webster has removed drone footage showing extensive cargo damage to an AP Moller-Maersk boxship from its website at the request of the Danish shipping giant. WK Webster posted the video of the 13,092-teu Maersk Essen ...

On Saturday morning, a boxship was reportedly boarded by pirates and its citadel breached at a position off Sao Tome, according to security consultancy Praesidium International.  Praesidium reports that at about 0530 hours on Saturday morning, the ...

A Liberia-flagged bulk carrier ran aground off the coast of Sri Lanka on 23 January, the Sri Lanka Navy said. While en route to Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, from Abu Dhabi Port, the UAE, MV Eurosun grounded on Little Basses Reef, about 5.5 nautical ...

The technology group Wärtsilä, as part of a consortium led by the University of Vaasa in Finland, will play a major role in an important project aimed at reducing the environmental impact of shipping. Project CHEK – deCarbonising sHipping by ...

Kawasaki Heavy Industries has completed Kobe LH2 Terminal (Hy touch Kobe), the world’s first liquefied hydrogen receiving terminal. The terminal was built for the CO2-free Hydrogen Energy Supply-chain Technology Research Association ...

The Thome Group recognises the importance of its seafarers keeping pace with the rapidly changing technology onboard today’s modern vessels which is why it has recently invested in the installation of a new Full Mission Navigation Bridge Simulator ...

Heavy weather in the North Pacific is being blamed for the loss of containers aboard one of Maersk’s containerships. This is the third container loss incident recently reported in the Pacific. Maersk is saying that approximately 750 containers were ...

Norsepower Oy Ltd., the leading global provider of auxiliary wind propulsion systems, has successfully installed two 35m tall Rotor Sails for SEA-CARGO, a leading logistics provider in the North Sea market. This installation heralds the world’s ...

In 2019 the international liner shipping industry transported 226 million containers around the world with a cargo value of more than US$4tn. Many of these were carried on ships’ decks but – due to container stack collapses – not all arrived ...

On 16 January 2021, at 20:20 Moscow time (17:20 GMT), SCF’s LNG carrier Christophe de Margerie, reached Cape Dezhnev in Russia’s Far East, completing her eastbound voyage carrying a cargo of LNG along the Northern Sea Route (“NSR”), for Yamal LNG, ...

Singapore has become one of the first nations to prioritize COVID-19 vaccinations of frontline maritime personnel as part of its national vaccination strategy to protect frontline personnel. Under the Sea – Air Vaccination Exercise (SAVE), over ...

In the movie “Falling Down,” the character played by Michael Douglas is stranded in a Los Angeles traffic jam. He abandons his car, starts walking with briefcase in hand and ultimately has a mental breakdown. Cargo shippers trying to get their ...

In reporting a $1.9bn adjusted net loss in the fourth quarter, Carnival Corp. said its cash burn rate was slightly better than expected and bookings for first half 2022 are ahead of 2019.The loss was worse than the Wall Street consensus estimate of ...

  A total of 135 crew were kidnapped from their vessels in 2020, with the Gulf of Guinea accounting for over 95% of crew numbers kidnapped, the International Chamber of Commerce’s International Maritime Bureau (IMB) said in its latest piracy ...

The military’s priciest aircraft carrier — worth $13.2 billion — is still suffering technological malfunctions three years after it was delivered to the U.S. Navy, according to a report. The issues on the USS GERALD R. FORD “remain consistent” with ...

Final preparations for Spirit Energy’s DP3 and DP4 installations to be lifted from the East Irish Sea are underway, and the two 11,000-tonne platforms will be removed by Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit. The infrastructure used to produce gas as part of ...

Union insists Danish company re-employs 24 seafarers who could face job losses following sale-and-charter-back deal of five boxships Talks are continuing between shipping giant AP Moller-Maersk and 24 Dutch seafarers who claim their job security is ...

There was an amazing satellite image taken of what was supposed to be the largest and deepest depression that had ever been recorded in the North Pacific. And it was exceedingly extensive, blanketing the whole of the Aleutian chain of islands and ...

In response to the challenging market conditions brought on by Covid-19 last year, Wallenius Wilhelmsen put 16 of its vessels into cold lay-up. Now, as the Company enters in 2021, Wallenius Wilhelmsen are returning up to nine of these vessels to the ...