Remdesivir Suffers Huge Blow After WHO Recommends Against Its Usage

The World Health Organization recommended against using Gilead Sciences Inc.’s remdesivir to treat hospitalized Covid-19 patients less than a month after U.S. regulators granted...

AI Software for Improved Safety And Automation in Shipping

British firm Robosys Automation Limited launched an AI software. It can allow bridge watchkeepers to control ships and improve safety, says an article published...

KR Completes Its First Drone & Crawler Hull Survey

The Korean Register (KR) has successfully completed its first hull survey using both a drone and crawler (a type of drone capable of climbing...

Oil Prices Soar Amid OPEC Delays & COVID19 Vaccine Hopes

Pfizer and Moderna say their COVID-19 vaccine is 95% effective. Saudi Arabia urges OPEC+ to be flexible on output. U.S. crude stocks rise...

Bulker Market Sees Lowest Sales Level Since 2015

Secondhand sales in the dry bulk market head for the lowest level since 2015 as the coronavirus pandemic makes them difficult to execute. While...

Seafarers Stuck On Ships For About A Year Due To The...

Thousands of seafarers around the world have been stuck on ships for about a year or longer due to the coronavirus pandemic. The prolonged...

Scrubber Fitted 12,000 teu F-type Containership Joins Evergreen

Ever Fortune is a new, 12,000 TEU class F-type containership. Evergreen has taken delivery of five newly built 12,000 TEU class F-type containerships.  ...

Scientists Create World’s Smallest 3D-printed Microboat

Kraft’s research group researches microswimmers, small particles moving in fluids like water, that can be followed using a microscope. Most research of this...

Ceiba – The Future Of Clean Shipping

Sail Cargo is a company trying to prove that zero-carbon shipping is possible, and commercially viable. The global shipping sector emits over a...

Performance Shipping Acquires 5th Aframax Tanker for $22m

Performance Shipping acquired the 2011-built (Sumitomo) aframax tanker Kalamas from Pleiades Shipping, reports Splash 247. Vessel value and delivery According to reports, Greek tanker owner Performance...

The Mystery Around Death Of The Captain Of Titanic

Captain E.J. Smith was last seen at 11:40 p.m. on Sunday, April 14, 1912. Even after 40 years at sea without any casualties...

Inmarsat To Deliver Fleet Xpress To Global Maritime Market

Speedcast International Limited and Inmarsat have signed an agreement for the sale of  Speedcast’s primary Maritime Customer Contracts to Inmarsat, says a press release...

Bulk Carrier Runs Aground Shortly After Unmooring

Bulk carrier ran aground in Parana river downstream from San Lorenzo Port on Nov 19, shortly after unmooring, reports Maritime Bulletin. What happened? Bulk carrier ASIA...

Bunkering Vessel Hijacked

  According to a Dryad report, the missing tanker Stelios K was reported to be hijacked after owners lost contact with the vessel 40 nm...

DNV GL Ventures into the Study of Maritime Battery Health

The Marine Service Unit of Costa Group Carnival Maritime GmbH and DNV GL, the world’s leading classification society, have launched “DDD-Batman”. It is...

UK Records A Grim Milestone of 50,000 Covid 19 Deaths

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has promised the NHS will be ready to start rolling out the vaccine from 1 December if its passes...

Air Lubrication Technology To Reduce Fuel Consumption by 5 to 10%

Water is not as yielding as you think, says Noah Silberschmidt, founder and CEO of UK-based Silverstream Technologies. For more than a century,...

The Real Cargo Security Risks in Moving the Vaccine

The focus of vaccine distribution so far has been on airline capacity and the ability to deliver at the correct temperature. But security...

Wärtsilä and CBO Venture into First Hybrid Vessel Upgradation

Wärtsilä and CBO, one of Brazil’s leading operators of offshore support vessels, sign an agreement to convert a vessel from CBO’s fleet to...

New Ethylene Terminal at Houston Channel To Be Scaled Up

Ethylene terminal has exported more than 300,000 mt so far in 2020. Terminal to reach nameplate 1 million mt/year capacity in December. Enterprise Products...