Why It’s World’s Strongest Box Or Super Box?

A standardized steel box specifically used to ship cargo internationally and locally and designed to fit on ships, trucks,rail and airplanes to easily go...

[Answer] What Happens When Cargo Ships Get Stuck In Ice?

An Arctic cargo ship, Sparta III, violated safety rules and sailed into unsafe ice conditions. It took nearly four weeks, several icebreakers and rescue...

Certification for In-Water Inspections

Survey planning and review of hull drawings were completed the day prior to the survey. During the inspection, the surveyor used VUVI’s sonar technology to...

Guide To Safe Confined Space Entry Onboard Ships

Confined space entry is a matter of great discussion in the maritime industry as a number of lives are lost in these restricted areas....

Why Shippers Built Massive Vessels?

  Unless you’re involved with international commerce in some way, you might not have heard that the cost of shipping goods out of China is...

Shell Got Permission To Supply LNG

Global energy producer Shell has been awarded permission to supply LNG as a bunker fuel in Gibraltar., says an article published in ship &...

Bunker Company Fends Off Contract Challenge

Bunker company World Fuel Services has fought off a legal challenge to 'separate out' aspects of a contract in a bunker transaction, says an...

Seafarer’s Role in Autonomous Shipping World

  Scientists simulate trends in maritime employment over the next 15 years following ship automation, says an article published in EurekAlert. Machine Makes Many things Artificial intelligence...

[Watch] Leading Shipping Companies Sign Up To Neptune Declaration

To overcome the seafarer crisis by enabling smooth crew change and repatriation, major shipping companies sign the Neptune Declaration, says an article published in...

Isle of Manship Launches ‘Crew Matters’ Application For Seafarers

The Isle of Man Ship Registry has officially launched its “Crew Matters” welfare app developed with training company Tapiit Live, says an article published...

World’s Second Largest Container line To Trial Alternative HFO

Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the world’s second largest container line, will trial emulsified synthetic heavy fuel oil on its ships this year with a...

DSME Bags ABS Approval for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Technology

Classification society ABS has granted approval in principle (AIP) to solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology developed by South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding &...

Singaporean Consortium To Explore Ammonia As A Marine Fuel

A joint study is underway in Singapore to explore the potential for ammonia to be used as a marine fuel. ABS, Singapore’s NTU,...

ICS Launches New Flag State Performance Table

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) has published the latest Flag State Performance Table (2020/2021) which finds that many of the largest flag states...

State-of-the-art Software for Seafarers, Online Marine Library

Witherbys, the maritime publishing experts, has put cyber security, flexible access and increased data at the heart of its new ereader software, Witherby...

Unilever’s Nano-factories Fit in a Shipping Container

Unilever already has more than 300 factories across the globe, but they are large facilities designed to produce mass quantities. Sometimes the company...

Soaring Container Prices Are Short-lived, Thanks to Authorities

George Steer and Valentina Romei recently drew consideration to the surge in transport prices on key routes comparable to east Asia to northern Europe. ...

Call for Fair Distribution of Covid 19 Vaccine in Europe

The EU has warned Covid vaccine producers they must deliver agreed supplies, amid fears reductions could seriously hamper its inoculation drive. AstraZeneca and...

Covid 19 Cases Cross 100 Million, Shortage of Vaccine

Global coronavirus cases surpasses 100 million as countries around the world struggle with new virus variants and vaccine shortfalls. Almost 1.3% of the...

A Deep Soulful Connection Between Officer & Ship

The author RECENTLY read an article regarding INS Viraat going to Alang, a graveyard for decommissioned ships. He reminisced of the time when he...