A group of 10 Turkish sailors has been kidnapped by pirates off the coast of Nigeria, reportedly for ransom. The Paksoy-1 was sailing from Cameroon to Ivory Coast when the pirates boarded the ship in the Gulf of Guinea. It was not carrying freight ...

The 1,642 TEU Container ship SOUL OF LUCK hit pier at TPKS Container Terminal Semarang Port, northern Central Java, Indonesia, in the afternoon Jul 14. The vessel was on arrival from Port Klang, Malaysia when it struck a gantry crane at the ...

The pilot has been set up with a view to gaining more information and experience regarding sailing drone technology. This development together with autonomously sailing vessels will have a great impact on future nautical processes. The experiment ...

Singapore has topped the 2019 Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Centre Development (ISCD) Index for the sixth year running, the Baltic Exchange said. The index provides an independent ranking of the performance of the world’s largest cities that ...

Over the last decade, overall containership fleet growth has been driven by demand for larger ships – a trend that is not expected to be reversed soon, according to Alphaliner. Since 2010, the global containership fleet’s growth has come entirely ...

German container shipping company Hapag-Lloyd revealed it is currently testing ship-painting robots with nine of its ships. With the help of robots that replace traditional application by hand, Hapag-Lloyd said it is possible to improve the quality ...

This week, Heerema’s newest vessel Sleipnir will begin her maiden voyage. Sleipnir, the world’s largest and strongest semi-submersible crane vessel (SSCV) was built in Singapore and will set course for Spain. The trip will take about 45 ...

The roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) cargo vessel Coyhaique, which grounded near the Chilean Port of Aguirre in the early morning hours of July 3, is listing heavily and taking on water. The Navimag-operated vessel ran aground near the Islote Oscuro, with ...

The level of interest in using wind-assist and primary wind propulsion solutions in shipping is gaining momentum. The need to reduce fuel costs and future proof vessels in preparation for decarbonisation costs is growing and the embrace of ...

Dr Lam Pin Min, Senior Minister of State for Transport and Health, witnessed the commencement of reclamation for Tuas Terminal Phase 2 with the installation of the first caisson in a ceremony on Jul 04. When fully operational, Tuas Terminal Phase 2 ...

A barge has reportedly lost its cargo of bauxite in Solomon Islands near where efforts continue to clean up oil spilled from a grounded cargo ship. The Island Sun newspaper reported the barge capsized in Kangava Bay on remote Rennell Island, close ...

Corvus Energy announced on Wednesday (Jul03) that the company has completed the installation of a 5,5 MWh battery energy storage systems (ESS) for each of the two Ro-Pax cruise ferries “Cruise Barcelona” and “Cruise Roma” owned and operated by ...

Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. (Boskalis) has been awarded a contract by Carnival Cruise Line to lift cruise ship Carnival Vista  out of the water onto the BOKA Vanguard and transport it to a shipyard facility for a dry-docking operation. This is a ...

The technology group Wärtsilä, Japanese shipbuilder Oshima Shipbuilding, and the classification society DNV GL have delivered the first results of their joint industry development project. At the recent Nor-Shipping exhibition held in Norway, the ...

Among the container vessels calling at the regular container service connecting Europe with the Far East are the largest vessels in the world in terms of capacity. The South Korean shipyard will soon be handing over a slightly larger, poignant ...

Neoline has selected the Loire-based company Neopolia S.A.S. for the construction of its first two sailing cargo vessels. This was announced at the maritime event La Mer XXL held in Nantes, France, from June 29 to July 10, 2019. The decision ...

Fourteen sailors have died after a fire broke out on one of the Russian navy's deep-sea research submersibles. Few details have been released about the blaze, but Russia’s defence ministry said the sailors likely died from toxic fumes. The defence ...

EVE Energy, a Chinese lithium battery producer, has entered into a framework agreement with Shanghai Hanshun Shipping to jointly develop a fleet of electric-powered bulk carriers. Under the agreement, Shanghai Hanshun Shipping plans to develop a ...

The first paperless, instantly financed and fully door-to-door tracked container made its way from Korea to the warehouse of Samsung SDS in Tilburg via Port of Rotterdam on blockchain-based platform DELIVER. ABN AMRO, Port of Rotterdam and Samsung ...

Next month, a floating nuclear power plant called the Akademik Lomonosov will be towed via the Northern Sea Route to its final destination in the Far East, after almost two decades in construction. It's part of Russia's ambition to bring electric ...

Dubai-based global port operator DP World has ventured into the energy segment with the acquisition of Topaz Energy and Marine Limited. The company acquired Topaz from Renaissance Services SAOG and Standard Chartered Private Equity / Affirma ...

SunStone Ships’ chief executive Niels-Erik Lund explains the benefits of building the company’s first newbuild in China, and how challenges were overcome Greg Mortimer stands out as the first cruise ship built in China – and on the eve of its ...

IF you are going to make shipping safer, you must have governments on board and acting proactively. Or, if you forgive the mixed metaphors, you could just kick the can down the road, pass the blame and carry on with business as usual. 
Two recent ...

The Italian master and two officers who were on the Grimaldi Group’s conro Grande Europa, that suffered a fire in May, have appeared in court in Valencia, Spain for alleged arson. The vessel burst into flames some 25 nautical miles off Mallorca, ...

Navis, a part of Cargotec Corporation, and the provider of on premise and cloud collaborative stowage planning solutions, announced that Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL) has chosen the Navis stowage planning software StowMan for effectively ...

China has launched the world’s first intelligent very large crude carrier (VLCC) at the country’s shipbuilding major, Dalian Shipbuilding Industry (DSIC). The 308,000 dwt vessel was named and delivered to its owner, China Merchants Energy Shipping ...

Tanzania has suspended the construction of the $10-billion Bagamoyo port project. The project, which broke ground in 2015, would have been the largest gateway in East Africa and was a key component in China’s $900-billion Belt and Road Initiative, ...

A former UBS banker in China has been sentenced to nine years in prison by a Shanghai court for disclosing inside information related to an acquisition deal in 2017, court documents show and sources with knowledge of the case said. A statement on ...

On Monday, 17th June, heavy-lift vessel Black Marlin departed Shanghai. On deck with eighteen Concordia Damen inland shipping vessel hulls and a Damen Crane Barge 6324, bound for Rotterdam. Concordia Damen regularly conducts such heavy-lift ...

After tweaking its plastics collecting system over the past four months, The Ocean Cleanup redeployed the revamped System 001/B last week. “After only four months of design, procurement, and assembly, the crew is now on their way to the Great ...

The Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important oil chokepoint, remained in focus following attacks on two tankers on June 13. The recent attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman, that saw Frontline and BSM Ship Management (Singapore) vessels ...

The lack of data on the impact of open-loop scrubbers on sediments in harbour areas has raised concerns in the ports industry, according to British Ports Association’s Mark Simmonds. The association “has been following the growing debate on the use ...

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. has announced a vessel design called EeneX, for a 90-type (90 000 DWT) next-generation coal carrier, developed in co-operation with Japanese shipyards. The vessel's design draws on the shipyard's extensive knowledge of ...

U.S. authorities have seized over 16 tons of cocaine from an MSC containership at the Packer Marine Terminal in Philadelphia, prosecutors said on June 18. The drugs were seized from the 2018-built Neopanamax MSC Gayane and represent the largest ...

The EU needs to invest in research, development and innovation to further develop technologies in digitalization, automation and autonomy in the shipbuilding processes, European shipbuilders believe.  As explained, the investments are needed in ...

Danish shipping major Maersk is in negotiations with FSUE Atomflot (Rosatomflot), a Russian operator of nuclear-powered icebreakers and part of Rosatom, to use the Northern Sea Route (NSR) for sending goods.  “We have experienced a growing demand ...

A car carrier that caught fire off the coast of the Philippines was abandoned near Reed Bank on June 17, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) was cited by local media as saying. The ship in question is the Diamond Highway, operated by Japanese shipping ...

Virgin Voyages’ new 110,000 gross tons cruise ship, the Scarlet Lady, will be led by Captain Wendy Williams from the spring of 2020. Williams is the first Canadian woman to captain a ship for a major cruise brand, according to the company. While ...

Digitalizing bridge and navigation technology irrefutably brings numerous benefits but also has implications for safety, operations and cyber security.Speaking to World Maritime News at the Nor-Shipping 2019 conference in Oslo, Michiel Meijer, Head ...

The Russian Direct Investment Fund - being an investment fund of the Russian Federation, investing together with foreign investors in Russian assets; ROSATOM - the infrastructure operator of the NSR; Norilsk Nickel - the world leader in the ...

The world's largest silent research vessel built by China was officially put into use on Thursday, which will pave the way for the cultivation of innovative deep-sea talent and ocean science study. Dong Fang Hong-3 (DFH-3) has obtained the highest ...

Sri Lanka has signed a deal with India and Japan to develop a deep-sea container terminal here amid increasing forays by China which has taken a strategic port on a 99-year lease that has worried New Delhi. The three countries will jointly build ...

A luxury superyacht owned by an Italian billionaire was lost at sea after it slipped from a cargo ship into the Mediterranean. My Song, a 40-meter (130-foot) Baltic 130 Custom sailing yacht, owned by the fashion heir Pier Luigi Loro Piana, was ...

Singapore-based Swire Shipping has placed an order for eight new container vessels at Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard, part of China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC). As informed, the units will be the company’s largest boxship newbuilds to date ...

In development for close to seven years, the Timm Snap Back Arrestor is a genuine market first.Despite the industry’s best intentions, such as designating hazardous snap-back zones on mooring decks, or the drawing up of detailed line management and ...

J. Lauritzen has been working closely with high tech engineers CLIIN to develop a robot that can clean the hold of a dry bulk ship. The robots were developed in close collaboration, using a trial and error approach. The benefits of the robots ...

As the Med. gets increasingly crowded, and with much attendant hassle in the day to day logistics of operating amidst such overcrowding, more and more large yachts are heading to higher latitudes in the summer season.Alternative summer destinations ...

The UK’s largest and most sophisticated maritime simulation centre, situated at Solent University’s main campus in Southampton, was officially opened by Sir Michael Bibby Bt., DL, President of the UK Chamber of Shipping. Speaking at the event Sir ...

Flames ripped through a load of cargo including chemicals in Thailand’s eastern Laem Chabang port on Saturday, forcing officials to evacuate workers and temporarily close three piers, authorities said. More than 130 people were taken to hospital, ...

With the ceremonial launch of the nuclear-powered Arctic ice breaker ‘Ural’ Saturday (May 25), Russia’s nuclear energy giant, ROSATOM, has completed another step towards ensuring all-year round navigability of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). The 173 ...

The Ocean Cleanup’s plastics collecting system, dubbed System 001/B, is set to be redeployed in June after undergoing upgrades. The company earlier explained that the System 001, which was deployed into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in September ...

The incident happened around 4pm on Saturday at the Longyan port in Weihai, a coastal city in Shandong province. Ten people were found dead at the scene, according to a notice released by the Weihai local government on Sunday morning. Another 19 ...

MSC Matilde, a containership operated by Swiss Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), has been reported listing at a UK port. The Panama-flagged ship was found to be listing in dock at the Port of Liverpool, in the early morning hours (local time) ...

Norwegian expedition cruise company Hurtigruten has confirmed plans to power its ships with fuel made from dead fish and other organic waste. As informed, Hurtigruten and compatriot firm Biokraft have signed a 7.5-year liquefied biogas (LBG) supply ...

A very young boxship has been sent for scrap. The Aeneas, a Chinese-built, nine-year-old boxship, has arrived at Chittagong’s anchorage, according to MarineTraffic, awaiting to be broken up. The 5,086 teu ship is one of the youngest container ...

BB will provide a power and propulsion solution for a newbuild vessel operating along the Rhône river in France to run entirely on hydrogen fuel cells ABB strengthens its position as the marine market’s frontrunner on hydrogen fuel cell technology ...

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 ...