Weekly Maritime Security Report – Week 25, 2019

Protection Vessels International has released the 25th Weekly Maritime Security Report of 2019. The report summarized on 10th July 2019 highlights the various incidents...

Ansheng Shipping Orders Demolition of Teu Feedermax Boxship Hai Su 10

Ansheng Shipping has sent the 698 teu feedermax boxship Hai Su 10 for demolition. Delivered by Fujian Mawei Shipbuilding, Hai Su 10 is...

Scorpio Orders Fresh Batch of Scrubbers for $33.3m

Scorpio Group has confirmed that it has ordered a further 14 ENVI-Marine™ emission control systems for its vessels to manage 2020, at a combined...

[Part2] A List of Interesting Papers from the 29th CIMAC Congress

The CIMAC congress just had an interesting discussion on a range of issues shipping industry is currently sailing through. Viswa Group in a 4...

Wind Propulsion Technology Launched by ABS and Marin

A Joint Industry Project has been launched by ABS and MARIN to assess the performance of wind-assisted shipping propulsion technologies. The JIP covers a majority...

Port of Virginia Commits To LNG Development

Port of Virginia becomes the first port to commit to the development of environmental friendly LNG fuel. It has become a member of SEA/LNG,...

Brittany Ferries Christened Its LNG Vessels

Brittany Ferries introduced two new environment-friendly and CO2 savings ships to its fleet. Kerry will cover the Cork to Santander route from November 2019 to November...

ExxonMobil’s Grade Bunkers Christened As EMF.5

ExxonMobil has christened its grade bunkers as EMF.5™. EMF.5™ is a range of Engineered Marine Fuels developed to fulfill global 0.50 percent sulphur cap. EMF.5 fuel...

How IMO 2020 Affects Transport of Ore, Coal, Grain and Other...

Although the focus of the IMO 2020 regulations is the sulfur content of fuels that will affect tanker and containership profitability, the fallout is...

Chevron Spills 800,000 Gallons of Oil in California Waters

Officials began to clean up a massive oil spill Friday that dumped nearly 800,000 gallons of oil and water into a California canyon, making...

LNG Containment System That Makes Smaller Projects Feasible Passes Gas Trials

In a major development, the LNT Marine has announced that they have successfully completed gas trials of its novel LNTA-BOX® containment system aboard the Saga...

[Watch] Giant Shipping Crane Crashing Over Dock After Being Hit by...

A huge shipping crane smashed into the dock in Semrang, the capital city of Central Java in Indonesia, reports Mirror.co.uk. What happened? A huge crane came...

Oil Set for Best Week in Three on Iran Tension and...

Oil capped its best week since mid-June as Tropical Storm Barry gained strength, approaching refineries in Louisiana and leaving deserted offshore platforms on its...

EGCSA Predicts 4,000 Scrubber Equipped Ships by January 2020

According to the Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems Association (EGCSA), an estimated 4,000 ships will be fitted with scrubbers by 1 January 2020 when IMO’s...

Inadequate Assessment Causes Allision With Pier

The Incident On August 1, 2015, at 2147 local time, the tank barge Double Skin 501, being pushed by the uninspected towing vessel Peter F...

JPMorgan Not Concerned About the Seizure of Its Ship

JPMorgan doesn’t seem to mind about its ship getting seized by US customs weeks after more than $1 billion worth of cocaine was found...

MSC Charters Two Scrubber Fitted Post-Panamax Containerships

A new long-term charters for two scrubber-fitted post-panamax containerships with Capital Product Partners is signed by MSC. The Greek ship owner said the...

Titan Completes Record LNG Bunkering on World’s Largest Crane Vessel

Supplying over 3,000 tonnes of LNG, Amsterdam-based Titan LNG has completed the largest LNG bunkering to date, fueling Dutch marine contractor Heerema's new eight-legged...

[Watch] US Marine Police Board a Narco-Sub Carrying 17,000 Pounds of...

The US Coast Guard released a video on Thursday that showed exactly how one might intercept a fast-moving narco-sub on the high seas, netting...

Diana Shipping Announces Time Charter Contract With Uniper

Diana Shipping Inc., a global shipping company specializing in the ownership of dry bulk vessels has entered into a time charter, said a press...