De Nora Pioneers in Electrochlorination Ballast Water Treatment

De Nora Marine Technologies has pioneered a method of electrochlorination ballast water treatment. The disinfectant that eliminates aquatic invasive species is generated from...

Qatar Petroleum’s Leap Step To Decarbonisation

Qatar Petroleum pursues to replace its existing bunker fuel for ships with LNG in a phased manner. It will significantly reduce QP’s total...

Platts Launches A New Dry Bulk Weighted Average Index

Platts has launched a new dry bulk weighted average index – APSI 5 – for Supramax class bulkers, effective February 1, 2021. Platts...

Dry Bulk Sector Welcomes New Safety Standards

INTERCARGO and RightShip are founding partners of DryBMS, a quality standard for the dry bulk sector. Safety, environmental  and operational excellence are promoted through...

Cargo Ship Rescued, 13 People Floating Near Alcester

  Thirteen people missing for a week in waters off Papua New Guinea after their boat broke down have been found alive with the help...

Fatal Fall From Inappropriate Portable Ladder

The Britannia P&I Club, in its BSafe campaign, reports the incident where an AB had a fatal fall from a portable ladder onboard a...

Euronav Switches To Suezmax Resales

Euronav has switched its buying focus from VLCCs to suezmaxes, writes Sam Chambers for Splash247. Euronav swoops for resales Clarksons Research reports that the Belgian tanker...

Demand Surge in Container Shipping Depletes Charter Market

The unexpected demand recovery in the container shipping sector driven primarily by the US-based demand surge has seen the charter market depleted of available...

Ordinary Medications That Impact on Serious Mental Behaviours

An extract from stories for BBC Future’s “Best of 2020” collection reveals the strange effects of medications that does not directly affect the body...

Ultramax Stays Strong Amid Slipping Capesize

Baltic Exchange has released a report about the dry bulk market for the 4th week of shipping activities of this year. The report dated...

4 Innovative Ideas Royal Caribbean Has For The Future

Technology innovates constantly, and Royal Caribbean has never been one to shy away from leveraging new advances to improve the guest experience, reports Royal...

How COVID19 Mutations Have Altered the Course of Pandemic

Understanding what is driving new variants of the coronavirus to appear and what the changes mean will be crucial in our arms race against...

Comfort for Crew A Good Sign for Seafarers

It is a good sign for seafarers and the industry that there is so much rallying around behind the Neptune Declaration and pressure is...

Industry Welcomes Nor-Shipping’s January Move

A Nor-Shipping in winter? Just one short year ago the suggestion would have been met with an air of disbelief. But now, with plans...

Investors Want Seafarers’ COVID Crisis To End

A group of leading investors on Wednesday called for an end to a crisis involving hundreds of thousands of seafarers stuck on ships for...

ONE Containership Fleet Makes Extra Calls To Conduct Crew Change

Around 15% of containerships fleet of Ocean Network Express (ONE) made extra calls last year to conduct crew changes, reports Seatrade Maritime News. Crew change...

Global Leaders Warned Off ‘Key Workers’ & Supply Chain Disruption

The fate of more than 200,000 seafarers who play a crucial role in keeping global trade flowing is being labelled a "humanitarian crisis...

Shipping Corporation Debts, Should Shareholders Be Worried About

The Shipping Corporation of India Limited (NSE:SCI) does have debt on its balance sheet. But should shareholders be worried about its use of debt? ...

[Watch] Arecibo Radio Telescope Collapse

The massive Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed on itself overnight. The catastrophic failure had been predicted by engineers after the telescope suffered two...

U.S. Oil Industry Concerned, Biden Focuses On Clean Energy

Biden takes steps to pause sales of oil and gas leases on federal land, cancel the Keystone XL pipeline & expand the government’s...