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 ...

In response to the global ambition of reducing the environmental footprint from global ship transport, Moss Maritime, in cooperation with Equinor, Wilhelmsen and DNV-GL, has developed a design for a Liquefied Hydrogen (LH2) bunker vessel. The vessel ...

Liberia has become the second largest ship registry in the world, shipping analyst Clarksons said in its January 2019 World Fleet Monitor. This report confirms that, in gross tonnage terms, Liberia has overtaken and outgrown the Marshall Islands, ...

German liner shipping company Hapag-Lloyd has declared General Average on its fire-stricken containership Yantian Express. General Average is a principal in maritime law under which all parties with a financial interest in the voyage are to ...

A scientific expedition in the Antarctic has set out on a quest to find Sir Ernest Shackleton's lost ship. The team has spent the past two weeks investigating the Larsen C Ice Shelf and the continent's biggest iceberg, known as A68. And this puts ...

In 1995, a powerful rogue wave slammed into an offshore gas pipeline platform operated by Statoil in the southern tip of Norway. Dubbed the "Draupner wave," it generated intense interest among scientists, since the platform's various sensors and ...

At 1438 on 27 March 2018, the Bahamas registered general cargo vessel Celtica Hav grounded on a stone training wall in the approach channel to the River Neath, Wales. The vessel had a harbour pilot on board at the time who had control of the ...

Even on a £4,800 trip of a lifetime, a holidaymaker doesn’t expect this.A UK couple are seeking compensation after saying they boarded a cruise ship sailing from Singapore to Phuket to find another man and woman in flagrante in their designated ...

Ferry company and freight operator P&O is to re-flag its UK registered vessels to Cyprus to keep its tax arrangements in the EU ahead of Brexit. “In advance of Britain leaving the European Union on March 29, 2019 we undertook a review of the flag ...

Maritime police said Wednesday they have requested the prosecution obtain a warrant to arrest the head of a shipping company that owned a missing cargo ship that sank in the South Atlantic two years ago. The Busan Coast Guard said the writ has been ...

The containership Ever Smart, which collided with the VLCC Alexandra 1 in February 2015, should bear 80% of the liability for the collision, the UK Court of Appeal confirmed. The ruling upheld the first instance decision of Hon. Mr Justice Teare on ...

Dutch ship owner Holland Maas Scheepvaart Beheer II BV has been fined 780.000 EUR and paid a settlement of 2.2 million EUR - totaling to a price tag of almost 3 million EUR - for having beached a ship for scrapping in India. In 2013, Holland Maas ...

Both companies have reached an agreement for CNCo to acquire RAO, Furness Withy Chartering and the bulk activities in Alianca NavegacãoHamburg Süd and The China Navigation Company (CNCo), a subsidiary of the Swire Group, today announced an agreement ...

Bunker fuels’ availability and compatibility remain a concern for shipowners and operators as they prepare to shift to 0.5 percent fuels to comply with the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO) 2020 sulphur cap. Once the new regime comes into ...

With all those plastic-trash haters filling the Internet with images of garbage-choked oceans and demanding bans on everything from drinking straws to grocery bags, chemical companies are beginning to get alarmed. Their solution: A public pledge by ...

Piracy increased on the world’s seas in 2018, with a marked rise in attacks against ships and crews around West Africa, according to a report from the International Maritime Bureau (IMB). Worldwide, the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre (PRC) recorded ...

The ultra large containership Maersk Honam, which suffered a major fire in March 2018, was cut in two and would be shipped to South Korea for rebuilding. Following the incident, which claimed the lives of five seafarers, the vessel was moved ...

The fire-stricken car carrier Sincerity Ace was taken under tow on January 8, the vessel’s owner Shoei Kisen Kaisha confirmed. The company added that the 650-foot unit is being towed by the salvage tug Koyo Maru heading to a yet-to-be-determined ...

Ferry company Norled AS and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration signed an agreement on Tuesday for the construction of the world’s first hydrogen-electric ferry. The newbuilding is expected to become operational in 2021, connecting the ...

Maritime powers need to increase their presence and expand their collaboration with local states to curb piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, according to BIMCO.Around 40 ships have been attacked in the Gulf of Guinea in the past 12 months. Most recently, ...

A series of human errors caused the collision between the Tunisian Ro-Ro ship Ulysse and Cyprus-flagged containership CLS Virginia that took place in October 2018,  approximately 28 kilometres north-west of Cape Corsica, according to preliminary ...

Tugboat Maersk Mobilizer will help tow Yantian Express, Hapag Lloyd’s disabled containership, to Halifax, Nova Scotia, the US Coast Guard said. On January 7, 2019, the 95-meter-long tugboat was en route to the 7,506 TEU boxship which was some 1,015 ...

At least one person has died and two others are still missing after an oil and chemical tanker caught fire off the coast of Lamma Island in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Authorities said the blaze, which began at around 11.30am and was finally put out at ...

  MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company informed on Saturday (Jan 05) that the Company reassures authorities and members of the public in the Netherlands and Germany that the company will pay the full costs of the clean-up of the 2 January MSC Zoe ...

Pacific Breeze, a 182,000 cu. m. capacity LNG carrier, is the world’s largest MOSS type LNG carrier ever constructed, built at Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., Japan (KHI). This capacity was achieved by extending the equatorial ring section of No. 3 ...

Orbital Marine Power has revealed the designs of its upcoming commercial production tidal turbine, the Orbital O2 2MW, which is targeted to be deployed at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney in 2020. Andrew Scott, CEO of Orbital ...

Shipping is the lifeblood of global commerce — more than 80 percent of world trade goes by water. But the industry is also an environmental menace, producing as much carbon dioxide annually as Germany. The International Maritime Organization has ...

Spain’s Supreme Court in Madrid upheld the ruling that the insurer and the captain of the Prestige oil tanker are to pay EUR 1.6 billion (USD 1.8 billion) in compensation. Under the final ruling, handed down on December 20, the captain of the ...

  The most often quoted reason for a mishap in the shipping industry is ‘human error’, followed closely by rough seas or bad weather. However, researchers have assessed that a combination of both have led to disasters, and more often, it is the ...

Turkish coastal emergency teams have rescued 16 crew members from a cargo ship that ran aground off the Black Sea coast of Sile in a dramatic operation that lasted several hours. The Comoros-flagged ship, Natalia, ran aground in rough seas early ...

Old ships never die or so we’re told; the reality is that in 2017 more than 800 of them were recycled, which means a final voyage, the right certification from the flag and a choice of ultimate destination. Whatever form it comes back in, the truth ...

The world’s largest cruise liner company Carnival Corporation & plc will launch four new cruise ships in 2019 across three of its global brands – Carnival Cruise Line, Costa Cruises, and Princess Cruises. Carnival Cruise Line will debut its new ...

Emerging and developing countries could be the source of economic growth that would spur shipping demand in the next five years, BIMCO said citing the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Additionally, data from the IMF showed that advanced ...

The Havyard project with Havila Kystruten on hydrogen-powered coastal route operations is to receive NOK 104.3 million (USD 12 million) in funding from Pilot-E. The company said that the initiative could result in vessels with up to five times ...

The IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee approved the framework and methodology for the regulatory scoping exercise on Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) during its 100th session held on December 3-7, 2018. A MASS has been defined as a ship which, ...

A crewman from the Liberian registered general cargo vessel, SMN Explorer, died when he was crushed by a falling hatch cover. The crewman was part of a working party stowing cargo slings used for the discharge of the ship’s cargo. The accident ...

One year after signature of the technological partnership between VPLP Design and CNIM, Oceanwings®, a new wind propulsion method, is coming to industrial maturity. Energy Observer, the first hydrogen-powered vessel aiming to achieve energy ...

Maritime Blockchain Labs (MBL), founded by blockchain technology and governance companies BLOC and the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, has established a consortium that will pilot a blockchain-based seafarer certification system. The project aims to ...

Ports and coastal infrastructure need to be prepared urgently for the projected impacts of the climate change, according to UNCTAD. “The hardest hit areas, coastlines, will affect us all since the lion’s share of trade itself is managed through ...

Singapore-based owner of gas carriers BW LPG revealed that the crew of its LPG carrier BW Frigg thwarted a pirate attack on October 29. As World Maritime News reported, a group of armed pirates attacked the LPG tanker while it was carrying out ...

Forty crew members, of whom 30 Indian nationals, have been stranded at the Port of Sharjah in the UAE for over two years on three separate vessels, all owned by the same shipping company, the Dubai-based Elite Way Marine Services EST. The crew ...

The Department of Transportation (DOT) is still finalizing the national maritime strategies that were called for in two separate mandates by Congress in 2014. According to DOT officials, DOT has been working on a single draft maritime strategy to ...

Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) have established a joint venture aimed at developing a system that would enable transporting containers at high speed through a tube to and from the Port of ...

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 newly launched carrier Ocean Network Express (ONE) expects its teething problems to have a USD 400 million impact to the company’s bottom line for the fiscal year of 2018. The teething problems, which mostly relate to booking reception and ...

UK has unveiled the first images from a new satellite which can see through clouds and image the Earth round the clock to help stop oil spills and illegal shipping. NovaSAR-1, the first Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite made in the UK, can ...

On November 21, Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) revealed the world's first application of solvent-free coating, jointly developed with a Norwegian paint manufacture, Jotun, to a 7,500㎥ LNG carrier. Backed by the fact that there is virtually no ...

Twelve shipwrecked Indians were on Tuesday rescued by a French Navy Cassard-class anti-aircraft frigate, part of Task Force (TF) 55 in the Persian Gulf. This is the Cassard’s second rescue mission in less than seven days in the Indian Ocean maritime ...

Seafarers across the globe can look forward to higher wages as international bodies reached an agreement on an overall increase of 4.5 percent of minimum wage for an able seafarer. Following two days of negotiations, the International Transport ...

Experts have succeeded in separating two freighters that were wedged together following a collision near the island of Borkum in the North Sea, a spokesperson of the German governmental command for maritime emergencies (CCME) said on Friday. On ...

The U.S. Navy’s Supervisor of Salvage and Diving (SUPSALV) office led a joint team to successfully remove 229,000 gallons of oil from the sunken World War II vessel ex-Prinz Eugen located in the Kwajalein Atoll. The project, led by Stephanie Bocek ...

Five container shipping companies intend to create an association with the purpose of paving the way for digitalization, standardization and interoperability in the container shipping industry. IT executives from CMA CGM, A.P. Moller – Maersk, ...

Finnish Meyer Turku shipyard cut the first steel today for Carnival Cruise Line’s newest 180,000-ton ship set to debut in 2020. The new vessel will be the first-ever ship operating in North America to use liquefied natural gas (LNG) as well as ...

Robots could soon take over and simplify the laborious and, at times, dangerous and time-consuming, process of cleaning cargo holds of dry bulk vessels. Danish shipping company Dampskibsselskabet Norden has recently tested and participated in the ...

On a passenger vessel, two members of crew were preparing a lifeboat for lowering as a drill. The lifeboat’s doors were opened and the two locking pins were inserted in the dedicated slots. The lifeboat was lifted slightly from the stowed position ...

The hull of the Color Hybrid, the world’s largest battery-hybrid ship, owned by Color Line, has arrived at Ulstein Verft in Norway for completion.It measures 160 meters in length, and has a capacity of 2,000 passengers and about 500 cars. The ...

Eight people sustained minor injuries and 137 people have been evacuated from Norwegian frigate HNoMS Helge Ingstad, which collided with Sola TS oil tanker at the Sture terminal in Øygarden, Norway, on Thursday morning. The Norwegian coast guard ...

Nine ocean carrier majors and terminal operators signed today a formal statement of intent for a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form a blockchain consortium. The consortium, named the Global Shipping Business Network (GSBN), includes CMA CGM, ...

3rd November the Stena Imperial reported a suspected pirate approach whilst on northbound passage through the Red Sea west of Yemen on her way from Far East to Rotterdam for discharge. The story in short:  Two suspicious skiffs were found ...

Celebrity Cruises has taken delivery of its brand new 117,000 gross ton cruise ship, Celebrity Edge, after 23 months of construction. “Today (October 31) is a very special day for all of us as we have been eagerly anticipating this moment for more ...

Underwater repair and maintenance specialist, Hydrex, has recently removed a bow thruster, that needed to be overhauled, from a 300-meter container ship. This was done during a stop in Italy. Hydrex team mobilized from the Antwerp fast response ...