Ballast Water Market Drives Revenue Hike for BIO-UV Group

BIO-UV's ballast water treatment system sales caused 30% increase in revenue. After the USCG certification, they are expecting a 15% increase in revenue...

Finance Conference Speakers Take a More Optimistic View of Shipping Market...

On November 8, the fourth Maritime Standard Ship Finance and Trade Conference was held at Abu Dhabi’s Sheraton Hotel and Resort and was in...

Freightos Baltic Container Report – Week 44

Report Highlights As of November 1, with many carriers pulling the General Rate Increases (GRIs), but, with sailings heavily booked, further rounds of GRIs are...

Gas-imaging Cameras Detect Fugitive Emissions from Tanker

The Port Inspectors have identified “fugitive emissions” from a 2-million-barrel crude oil tanker as a culprit in periodic pungent odors that have offended coastal...

20 Container Vessels Ordered for Wan Hai Lines

To improve its company’s fleet improvement plan, Wan Hai Lines has confirmed an order of 20 container vessels with JMU (Japan Marine United Corporation)...

What About Waste Generated by Ships?

40% of the sea based marine trash comes from shipping. 100 tons and 400 tons carrying ships must have a garbage management plan...

[Watch] Pacific Fleet Frogmen Dive at Record Depth of 416m in...

Pacific Fleet divers (Pacific Fleet), the Navy Research Institute and a separate expedition detachment of divers aboard the Igor Belousov Pacific Fleet rescue ship...

US Cyber Security Certificate for Hyundai Oil Carrier

Hyundai Heavy receives U.S. cyber security certificate for tanker, says Yonhap News agency. CSR certificate from ABS Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., the world's largest shipbuilder by...

OSM Know-how for Which Scrubber System to Retrofit

OSM’s press release says that it is now offering its customers, assistance in exhaust gas scrubber retrofit process. Inescapable IMO 2020 sulphur cap As pressure mounts...

Bimco Adopts Bunker Clause for Time Charter Parties

BIMCO says as priority news in its site, that it has developed two 2020 bunker clauses that deal with general compliance for the transitional...

Ship Procurement Set for a Shake-up

Ship maintenance and the global supply arrangements can be revamped by a smart end-to-end digital procurement and logistics set-up for marine stores and spares,...

Thoresen Profit Triples as Dry Bulk and Offshore Sectors Improve

In a recent development, Thoresen Thai Agencies Public Company Limited (TTA) announced an improved performance report in 3Q/2018 (1 July – 31 October 2018)...

ClassNK Archive Center (NKAC) Stores the First IMO GBS Ship Construction...

ClassNK Archive Center (NKAC) has stored the first Ship Construction Files (SCF) complying with IMO Global Based Standards (GBS) for the NACKS-built 311,000 DWT...

Diana Sells Panamax Dry Bulk Vessel for $7.45 Million

Diana Shipping signs agreement to sell Alcyon by January 7, 2019 at US$7.45 million. The new time charter rate is US$8,550 per day...

IMO 2020: Bunker Flow Rate Increases But Port Call Lengthens

A technology expert has issued a warning that ports need to be prepared for longer ship waiting times and to invest in new infrastructure...

Six New Tugs of Master Marine

Master Marine is building six new tugs of 67’x28′, says Ken Hocke in his article for WorkBoat. What is in the contract? Master Marine Inc. has...

Pirates Fire on LNG Carrier

On November 6, an LNG tanker was attacked by pirates who proceeded to chase and fire at the tanker. What happened? The LNG tanker was proceeding...

TOTE and MAN Celebrate ME-GI Milestone

On the third in-service anniversary of MAN Energy Solutions’ ME-GI dual-fuel, two-stroke marine engine, US ship owner and pioneering engine user Tote Inc reflects...

[Watch] 122 Year Old British Shipwreck Found

Archaeologists have uncovered the buried remains of a British ship that ran aground on a beach in Brazil after typhoon winds destroyed it more...

How Artificial Intelligence and Lasers Could Make the Seas Safer

Companies are making heavy investments in autonomous robots to study uncharted shallow waters. Bathymetric LiDAR by Quantum Spatial, penetrates the water and...