A naval architect testified Tuesday that the Golden Ray’s ballast level was not compliant with stability regulations when the vehicle carrier capsized while departing the Port of Brunswick in September 2019.  “If the vessel had kept the additional ...

Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has paid $253,300 in penalties to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for violating the Ocean-Going Vessel At-Berth Regulation. The rule requires container, passenger, and refrigerated cargo ...

The Maritime Skills Commission (MSC) has published its Labour Market Intelligence Report to help identify skills gaps in the maritime sector.  The Commission was set up to understand the skills needs of the sector, including accounting for the ...

Carnival Cruise Line is taking steps to terminate and/or not renew the contracts of employment of several thousands of officers and crew members throughout its fleet, according to several crew members who wish to remain anonymous. Today, several ...

The captain of the fire-stricken very large crude carrier New Diamond is facing negligence and pollution charges in Sri Lanka. The Panamanian-flagged supertanker is estimated to have spilled around 1,700 tonnes of heavy fuel following the engine ...

BeHydro, a joint venture company of Ghent-based engine builder ABC and Antwerp-based shipping company CMB, has launched the first hydrogen-powered dual-fuel engine with a capacity of 1 megawatt (MW). Over the past three years, BeHydro has ...

On September 13th 2020, Seaspan’s 8500TEU container vessel COSCO Malaysia, under the Command of Capt. Rusu Bogdan Drago, carried out a dramatic rescue at sea. Four US nationals were on board a disabled sailing yacht, which was foundering in gale ...

Wallenius Marine has launched Oceanbird, which it described as the world's first wind-powered pure car, truck carrier (PCTC) concept design. In a live webcast yesterday (10 September), Wallenius claimed that the Oceanbird design – which will be ...

The distressed seafarers are receiving assistance from the ITF Arab World and Iran Network to survive and get home, the global union federation of transport workers’ trade unions said. ITF drew attention to two recent cases of seafarer abandonment ...

MSC Mia, one of the largest container ships in the world hit a gantry crane at while leaving the container terminal at Valencia, Spain, on September 13th in the morning. The crane collapsed injuring its operator who required hospitalization. Able ...

The shipping industry is faced with one of the greatest humanitarian crises in years, affecting over half a million people. Six months into the pandemic 300,000 seafarers are stuck at sea, some of them for 17 months, 6 months longer than allowed ...

The Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS), one of the world’s full autonomous ships, will be officially launched on September 16th in Plymouth, UK. The project is led by marine research organization Promare, with IBM as technology partner. Finnish ...

The Sri Lanka Navy has managed to extinguish the reignited fire on board MT New Diamond, and the tanker is now being towed further away towards safe waters by a tug, the navy said in an update.  The distressed oil tanker is currently about 37 ...

Jotun has signed the first commercial contract for container vessels with its ground-breaking Jotun Hull Skating Solutions (HSS). The contract was signed with global container shipping and logistics leader MSC, Mediterranean Shipping Company. MSC, ...

Wakashio, the giant Capesize bulker which ran aground on a reef off Mauritius and subsequently split in two, causing a major fuel spill, diverted from its navigation route approaching closer to the coast of the island as the crew was trying to pick ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released its final report into the collision between the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Fitzgerald and the boxship ACX Crystal on June 17, 2017. The accident badly damaged Fitzgerald and killed seven ...

In order to boost its customer proximity and deliver more effectively to customers, Hamburg Süd will optimize its organizational structure by the end of the third quarter. In the company’s regions, the organizational and geographical area structure ...

Three men have died, while one remains missing after a tug involved in the cleanup efforts of the oil spill caused by the Capesize bulker Wakashio, capsized following a collision with a barge in bad weather. Four people have been rescued from the ...

Anyone who has traveled on a commercial vessel knows that those vegetables that were so fresh when first loaded look and taste quite tired by the end of a long voyage. However, the crew of Berge Bulk’s 211,000-dwt Berge Zugspitze (built 2016) has ...

A radio hijacker who stopped vessels receiving directions as they approached port by transmitting music, racist abuse and threats to make a bomb on the frequency used by maritime authorities has avoided jail.  Charlie Vaughan, 25, spent three ...

The Supreme Court recently granted an owner permission to appeal in respect of the Court of Appeal’s decision in the CMA CGM LIBRA case. The appeal will raise issues concerning the scope of a shipowner’s obligation under Article III rule 1(a) of the ...

The Philippines is trying to position itself as a crew change hub, adding three more ports along with Manila where ships can get seafarers on and off. The ports of Panila, Capinpin and Subic Bay have all been given the green light to become crew ...

The 13 crew members of product tanker MT Curacao Trader, who were kidnapped off Benin back in July, have been released and are all safe and well. The information was confirmed by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs earlier this week, saying ...

There are 66 projects zero-emission pilots and demonstration projects underway in shipping, according to the preliminary results of a mapping exercise carried out by the Getting to Zero Coalition. As explained, the mapping seeks to build awareness ...

The Philippine Coast Guard will continue to pursue criminal charges against the owners of MV Vienna Wood, a Hong Kong-flagged bulk carrier, which was involved in a deadly collision with a fishing vessel in June southwest of Manila. The decision is ...

The bow section of the stricken bulk carrier Wakashio has been scuttled Monday after the Japanese-owned bulk carrier ran aground, spilled oil and broke apart atop a coral reef off Mauritius. Scuttling efforts commenced last week but progressed ...

The deployment of MV Chefoo further strengthens the company’s long-term commitment to the Asia-Pacific region Swire Shipping recently introduced its second 2400TEU vessel, MV Chefoo, into its fleet. The vessel will be deployed on Swire Shipping’s ...

Genting Hong Kong Limited has decided to temporarily suspend all payments to the group’s financial creditors as it works to preserve liquidity during a very tough time for the company suffering from a massive impact from the COVID-19 pandemic on its ...

An oil tanker carrying 3,000 tonnes of gasoline collided with a cargo ship near Shanghai on Thursday (Aug20), leaving 14 people missing, state media reported. State broadcaster CCTV showed footage of the oil tanker LONG QING 1 burning at sea as ...

A merchant ship has reportedly been hijacked off the northeast coast of Somalia, marking the first successful hijacking by Somali pirates since 2017. The Panama-flagged ship was en route from the United Arab Emirates to Mogadishu port when it ...

Japanese shipping major K Line and Airseas, a spin-off of aerospace company Airbus, have obtained an Approval In Principle (AIP) from classification society ClassNK for the design of the Seawing kite system which converts wind energy into propulsive ...

Towing operation of the bow section of the ill-fated bulk carrier Wakashio that split in two after running aground off Mauritius causing a major environmental disaster has been launched earlier today. Images released by the Ministry of the ...

A Nigerian court made the first convictions under a new anti-piracy law, giving hope to the world’s shipping fleets that legal reforms will help stem rising attacks in the Gulf of Guinea. The three men fined by the court in Port Harcourt, Nigeria’s ...

On the evening of 15 December 2018, while approaching the Humber pilot station the container feeder vessel Thea II suffered an engine failure and had to anchor to await tugs to tow it into harbour. In storm force conditions, the container vessel ...

MV Wakashio, the bulk carrier that caused an oil spill off the southeast coast of Mauritius when it ran aground a reef close to 3 weeks ago, has now split into two parts. As reported on August 15th, 2020, the forward section of the ship detached ...

The Admiralty Court has for the first time considered what might constitute the meaning of “operator” or “manager” under the 1976 Limitation Convention.
In Splitt Chartering APS, Stema Shipping A/S, Maibau Baustoffhandel GmbH, and Stema Shipping ...

One of the more unusual sights of the coronavirus pandemic has been that of cruise ships drifting around in the English Channel, apparently abandoned at sea. But why are they there? And how did they become a holiday attraction? Paul Derham is ...

Tokyo-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) received the following information from Nagashiki Shipping Co. Ltd. (Nagashiki) who is the owners and managers of bulk carrier Wakashio and Time Chartered to MOL. 1. Situation of leaked Fuel OilAs of July 25 ...

Design and engineering consultancy, Houlder has won another contract with the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company (IoMSPC), acting as technical advisor in the design and build of its latest battery hybrid ferry, the company said in its release. The ...

The Port of Bronka has successfully loaded a reactor weighing more than 300 tons from a sea-going vessel onto an inland waterway vessel. The challenging cargo safely reached its final destination Tolyatti. The reactor manufactured at an Austrian ...

A ship that ran aground off Mauritius leaking tonnes of oil into the ocean is cracking up, the country’s prime minister has said, threatening an even greater ecological and economic disaster for the island nation. More than 1,000 tonnes of fuel has ...

Container ship UNI FLORIDA was involved in yet another incident of containers toppling off the stern of the vessel as it was on its voyage from Saudi Arabia, arriving at Jebel Ali on the 27th of July, 2020. Images and videos shot by local observers ...

Three rail-mounted quay cranes used for loading and unloading containers at the terminal run by Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) collapsed in high-velocity winds that lashed Mumbai on Wednesday evening. There were no casualties. No ships were at ...

Italian Shipbuilding firm Fincantieri and oilfield services firm Saipem have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote the development of deep-seabed mining (DSM). As part of the MoU, the two Italian firms will partner on the ...

A massive fiery  explosision near a waterfront, industrial section of Beirut, Lebanon killed over 70 people and wounded around 4,000 earlier today.  A video (below) of the blast, which was broadcast around the world, showed a large fire with smaller ...

Allseas’ involvement in the complex Tyra redevelopment project for Total is off to the perfect start with the successful single lift removal of the field’s heaviest topsides. Pioneering Spirit made light work of the 14,000 tonne Tyra East Alpha ...

It has not been a good start to reopening for cruise liners, with some of the first cruises to resume after coronavirus-related shutdowns immediately recording fresh COVID-19 outbreaks. Several cruises that resumed in parts of Europe and the ...

Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc., one of the world’s largest owner-operators within the Supramax / Ultramax Drybulk segment, today reported that it has successfully resolved a security incident on board the vessel M/V Jaeger involving an armed security ...

Maintenance-related issues led to the January 2018 engine room fire on board the container vessel MOL Prestige in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia (BC), the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) determined in its investigation report. On 31 ...

The spike in shipping along the remote Russian Arctic shipping route comes as sea ice melting over the last weeks has reached unprecedented levels. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, ice levels on the 15th of July stood at 7.51 ...

The large 203,130 dwt bulk carrier Wakashio has run hard aground in an environmentally sensitive area off the east coast of Mauritius, on Saturday evening. The 300-meter, Panamanian-flagged vessel was sailing under ballast without cargo through a ...

Reporting indicates that the Mexican flagged Offshore Supply Vessel the MV NATALIE was boarded whilst conducting operations in the vicinity of the ODIN Offshore platform 12nm NE of Coatzacoalcos. It is understood that the vessel was boarded early ...

The removal operation of the car carrier Golden Ray has been paused amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 among the team on-site, which has resulted in the quarantine of around 50 personnel. St. Simons Sound Incident Unified Command said on Friday, ...

On 30 October 2017, the UK registered container ship Ever Smart suffered a container stow collapse while on passage between Taipei, Taiwan and Los Angeles, USA. The master had changed the ship’s passage plan to avoid severe weather caused by a ...

The beloved British cruise line, known for its affordable, friendly and fuss-free sailings, has ceased trading with immediate effect, after the news was announced last night (20 July). Offices in Essex, Australia, France, the US and TransOcean ...

Today I mentioned that according to the popular Crew-Center site, TUI Cruises canceled the restarting of the cruise ship Mein Schiff 1. This cruise ship was scheduled to resume cruises on July 31st, according to German media. The cruise blog Schiffe ...

As China is expected to launch its next-generation aircraft carrier within a year and construction on a sister ship for the new giant vessel has been hastened, two sources close to the projects said. The Type 002 aircraft carrier – the country’s ...

Near miss between a ro-ro ferry and a submerged submarine in the North Channel between Belfast, Northern Ireland and Cairnryan, Scotland. Our accident investigation report into the near miss between the ferry Stena Superfast VII and a submerged ...

Analysis confirms that the targeted vessel was the product tanker MT CURACAO TRADER IMO 9340908. Analysis indicates that the vessel departed Lomé port sailing South before her speed dropped to 3kts at the indicated time of attack. The vessel is ...

The South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) is investigating an incident in Algoa Bay where 23 containers were lost overboard a vessel. The containers were confirmed to have been missing from vessel “MSC Palak” while it was anchored on ...

Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), the largest commercial shipbuilder in India, yesterday signed contracts for construction and supply of two Autonomous Electric Ferry for ASKO Maritime AS, Norway with an option to build two more identical ...

The technology group Wärtsilä was contracted to deliver a complete bridge systems installation for five ice breaking LNG-fueled tankers to be constructed for the Arctic LNG-2 project. The navigational systems are delivered by Wärtsilä Voyage, the ...

Time is running out to prevent a disastrous oil spill from a deteriorating tanker loaded with 1.1m barrels of crude that is moored off the coast of Yemen, the UN’s environment chief has said. Inger Andersen told the UN security council that a spill ...

The newly published Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) Safety and Shipping Review points to a 20% fall in shipping losses year on year but highlights the risk challenges associated with ‘rising geopolitical tensions, emissions rules and ...

Ruling may persuade shipping companies that scrapping vessels in the dangerous, unregulated yards of south Asia is a false economy A widow whose husband fell eight storeys to his death while breaking up a supertanker in Bangladesh can pursue a ...

Singapore maintained its position as the most important shipping hub in the Asia-Pacific region, ranking first for seven consecutive years, a new index shows. The 2020 Xinhua-Baltic International Shipping Centre Development (ISCD) Index has been ...

Norwegian transportation company The Fjords has taken delivery of its second all-electric passenger ship, Legacy of The Fjords. The newbuild, which was originally scheduled for delivery in July 2019, will join its sister ships, Vision of The Fjords ...

Maersk, owner and operator of the world’s largest container shipping fleet, has sold a 9, 640 TEU containership Sine Maersk for demolition in Turkey. The 22-year-old containership has a market value of $ 11.69 million, according to the data from ...

Seven crew members have tested positive for Covid-19 on board a tanker that arrived in Algeciras, Spain from Nigeria. Based on the available information, nine crew members took rapid Covid-19 tests which turned out to be positive for seven ...

A consortium comprising C-Job Naval Architects, LISA, SeaZip Offshore Service, Sea Machines, MARIN, and eL-Tec elektrotechnologie has unveiled a concept design for an Autonomous Guard Vessel (AGV), to be used for surveillance of offshore wind ...

Höegh Xiamen is a car carrier owned by Ocean Yield ASA (Ocean Yield) and employed on a bareboat contract to Höegh Autoliners The vessel has been declared a constructive total loss following a fire that broke out onboard the vessel in early June in ...

The UK Ship Register (UKSR), part of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency, has announced it is to open its first overseas sales hub as part of ambitious growth plans for the UK Flag. The new venture, which will see the launch of a sales office in ...

Carnival will pay a hefty 7.5% on top of interbank rates to borrow $2.8bn (£2.3bn) to shore up the embattled cruise operator's finances as the Covid-19 crisis casts doubts on its future. The senior secured term loans consist of $1.86bn and €800m ...

Fifteen crew members on board a Maltese-flagged oil tanker have tested positive to COVID-19, and two crew members have been hospitalized, but they are not in a critical condition. The information was confirmed to Offshore Energy-Green Marine by a ...

Norsepower Oy Ltd., the leading global provider of auxiliary wind propulsion systems, and SEA-CARGO, leading logistics provider in the North Sea market, today announced an agreement to install two of Norsepower’s largest Rotor Sails on board the SC ...

A new generation of boutique cruise ships is set to emerge, with the luxury of a superyacht, the construction techniques and passenger experience of a cruise ship, and a close focus on the environment. These cost optimised vessels will serve the ...

More than 40% of vessels were suffering from over 10% hard fouling coverage on the hull even before the idling of fleets due to COVID-19, analysis of hull fouling collection data in a new research commissioned by Swedish biotechnology company I-Tech ...

A consortium of Europe’s maritime research and technology leaders is launching a new project, called Fastwater, to demonstrate the feasibility of retrofitting and building new vessels to operate on methanol as a pathway to fossil-free ...

HONOLULU, HI — June 23, 2020 Ocean Voyages Institute’s marine plastic recovery vessel, S/V KWAI, docked at the port of Honolulu today, after a 48-day expedition, successfully removing 103 tons (206,000 lbs.) of fishing nets and consumer plastics ...

More than 20 40-foot containers fell overboard of a Young Brothers barge early Monday into waters off Hilo. The cargo fell from from the barge Ho Omaka Hou as the tug Hoku Loa was transiting to Hilo Harbor on Monday, according to the U.S. Guard ...

• The single-lift removal of 17,000-t topsides took less than 4 hours • First offshore lift to utilise specially developed “horseshoes”  Allseas’ heavy lift vessel Pioneering Spirit has completed its first decommissioning job of this summer, the ...

As you read this, over 60,000 cargo ships are on the high seas, laden with iPhones from China, dresses from Bangladesh, beef from Argentina, oil from the Gulf and much, much more. The industry likes to say that it is responsible for “90% of ...

Five cruise ships in Essex and Bristol have been detained over "concerns" for the welfare of their crews. Some of the crews had been on board for more than 12 months, payment of wages was late and "a number of expired and invalid Seafarers ...

Carnival Corporation & plc., the world’s largest cruise company, suffered a multibillion-dollar loss in the quarter ended May 31, 2020, due to the suspension of cruise operations related to COVID-19. U.S. GAAP net loss stood at $4.4 billion for the ...

Maersk will begin implementation of an innovation called Snap Back Arrestor (SBA) ropes on the mooring lines used to hold vessels in place while docked in port for loading and unloading. Mooring is one of the most dangerous aspects of port and ...

Italian classification society RINA has carried out what it claims to be the world’s first statutory and associated class intermediate surveys with the use of remote technologies on the bulk carrier Cielo di Gaspesie, owned by the d’Amico Group. On ...

The US Navy has taken delivery of the USS Zumwalt, its first full-electric power and propulsion ship. GE’s Power Conversion business (NYSE:GE) was the designer and provider for the high-voltage system (HV), propulsion drive trains consisting of ...

Salvors working the STELLAR BANNER wreck off the coast of the Brazil have scuttled the vessel more than three months after the it ran aground fully loaded with iron ore. The 300,000 DWT Very Large Ore Carrier was scuttle Friday approximately 150km ...

ESL Shipping, the leading carrier of dry bulk cargoes in the Baltic region, today announced that its vessel m/s Viikki was fueled in Raahe, Finland with 100% renewable liquefied biogas (LBG) to transport iron ore for the Swedish steel company SSAB. ...

Stena Bulk is presenting a prototype of the next-generation product and chemical tanker, the IMOFlexMAX , which will be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 25% compared to modern product tankers. The vessel, designed by Stena Bulk ...

Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a part of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, in collaboration with Shin Nihonkai Ferry Co., Ltd., has successfully applied for grant aid under the "Joint Technological Development Programme for the ...

A total of eleven incidents — of which one was a piracy incident and ten armed robbery incidents — were reported in Asia in May 2020. Two of the incidents occurred on board ships while at berth, six on board ships while at anchor and three of them ...

Shipshave ITCH is a semi-autonomous hull cleaning robot that is tethered to a winch on the foredeck of a vessel and submerged under water. There the robot harvests propulsion energy and cleans the hull in a defined pattern using soft brushes. A ...

A ground-breaking Global Industry Alliance (GIA) has been launched to tackle two of the most pressing environmental issues of our time – invasive species and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The GIA brings together stakeholders in the private sector ...

Genco Shipping & Trading Limited, the largest U.S. headquartered drybulk shipowner focused on the transportation of major and minor bulk commodities globally, announced the successful full crew change of the Genco Liberty, a 180,032 DWT Capesize ...

The Coronavirus pandemic is leaving the maritime and offshore energy sectors vulnerable to cyber-attack, with Naval Dome citing a massive 400% increase in attempted hacks since February 2020. While an increase in malware, ransomware and phishing ...

The current officer shortfall to crew the global merchant fleet is forecast to widen amid reduced attractiveness of a career at sea, according to the latest report from the global shipping consultancy Drewry. The consultancy estimates that there is ...

On 31 May 2020 at 06:00 Moscow time Christophe de Margerie, an icebreaking LNG carrier owned and operated by SCF Group, successfully completed her passage across the Northern Sea Route (NSR), bound for China with a cargo of LNG for the Yamal LNG ...

Qatar Petroleum entered into three agreements Monday (Jun 01) to reserve LNG ship construction capacity in the Republic of Korea to be utilized for Qatar Petroleum’s future LNG carrier fleet requirements, including those for the ongoing expansion ...

Another important CLEANBU milestone - the MV Barracuda makes the first switch from dry cargo to jet fuel Our CLEANBU vessel, MV Barracuda, successfully completed this week the first voyage carrying a part cargo of jet fuel to Korea after ...