Yearly Archives: 2019
$55,000 Fine for Open-loop Scrubber Ban Violation
According to a Dredging and Port Construction report, the Port of Hamburg authorities have imposed a record fine to a tanker that breached its...
Meet America’s First Female Captain of a Mega Cruise Ship!
According to an article published in Travel Insider, Kate McCue, captain of the Celebrity Edge, a 2,918-passenger cruise ship, says she has too much...
Presence of Biodiesel Waste Indicated in VLSFO Bunkers in Panama
According to a latest ViswaLab technical update, an increase in high Acid Number VLSFO fuel samples bunkered in Panama is noticed since the beginning...
Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) Code of Practice
According to an article published in Maritime UK, the MASS industry, companies, organisations and individuals working within it are committed to behaving ethically and...
Tanker Rates Continue To Slide, Shippers Remain Hopeful
VLCC spot rates had touched $300,000 a day in the week ended 11 October, before diving to below $100,000 a day at the...
Conquistador Ship Anchors Discovered Off Mexico
According to an article published in Fox News, archaeologists have discovered two 16th-century anchors off the coast of Mexico that may be from ships...
Countries Come Together To Implement IMO Regime
Countries surrounding the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden have pledged to make progress towards ratifying, implementing and enforcing IMO’s liability and compensation regime,...
Izzy Looking Forward To a Christmas Miracle
A cat that stowed away on a cargo ship and travelled more than 2,000 miles from Israel to the UK needs a new home,...
MSC ZOE Mishap: MSC Quashes Claims by Zembla
A claim by Zembla (a Dutch TV investigative journalism programme), that the video data recorder on board MSC ZOE at the time of the...
Amsterdam Port Witnesses Its First SIMOPS LNG Bunkering
Titan LNG’s bunker barge FlexFueler001 has supplied LNG to the tanker Ramelia while the ship was unloading cargo at the Oiltanking Terminal in Amsterdam.
The...