Chemical Residue Kills Young Intern in Ship

  A 19 year old University freshman Mustafa Koç was found dead in ship during internship according to a report published in Ahval News.  About the Incident  Piri...

Weekly Tanker Report – Week 28, 2019

The Baltic Briefing has issued the tanker report for the 28th week of this year. The report dated 12th July 2019 provides a valuable...

ABS and MOL in Landmark Gas Carrier Agreement

Gas Carriers (SHANGHAI) ABS has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. (MOL) to collaborate on up to 14 new gas...

LNG Shipping in Terms of the ‘Cool Pool’

The Cool Pool launched in September 2015 with 14 tri-fuel diesel engine (TFDE) LNG carriers. Cool Pool improves the utilization of the participating...

Port of Corpus Christi Wins AAPA Award of Excellence

The American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) recognized the Port of Corpus Christi’s Moving America’s EnergyTM media campaign with its 2019 Award of Excellence,...

Safe Bulkers Completes First Scrubber and BWTS Retrofits

Retrofitting of the exhaust gas cleaning system by Safe Bulkers is in response to IMO regulation starting 1 January 2020. 2009-built Martine gets...

Oil Market Awaits Impact of Barry on Stocks

According to an article published in Freight Investor Services, the front end crude spreads and crack is getting slammed in the fuel oil markets...

Ship’s Crew Detained in Port of Leith Due To ‘Shortage of...

  According to an article published in BBC, a Russian ship was detained in Leith over unpaid wages and safety issues has had fresh food...

Product Tankers Ready To Ship Re-engineered Marine Fuel

ExxonMobil has introduced EMF.5, its range of engineered marine fuels developed ahead of IMO’s global 0.50% sulphur cap. ExxonMobil's fuels are specifically engineered...

Asia Refiners Venture into Export of IMO Compliant Fuel

Taiwan and South Korean refiners are venturing into newer markets to export low-sulphur ship fuel. Refiners have redirected low-sulphur feedstocks for making VLSFO, with 0.5% or...

[Watch] How Important It Is To Monitor Fuel Spend?

Fuel costs are a critical component of overall transportation expense and with the new IMO 2020 Sulphur fuel regulations it's...

Maersk Raises Shipping Charge in the Gulf by 42$

In a major development, A.P. Moller-Maersk has announced that they are increasing the prices for sending containers into the Persian Gulf in response to...

No ‘Silver Bullet’ in Achieving Environment Goals: CIMAC

With the theme, “Meeting the Future of Combustion Engines” the CIMAC World Congress took place in Vancouver, Canada, earlier this last month demonstrating the...

[Answer] How To Rehabilitate Old Oil SuperTankers?

As you read this, around 10,420 giants are heaving their way across the world’s oceans. Their enormous metal bodies lumber onwards in spite of...

Helm Celebrates 20th Anniversary With Record Milestone

Leading marine operations software company Helm Operations has announced that it has surpassed the 4000 vessel mark on its industry-leading maritime asset management and...

Capesize Gains Trickle Down To Other Segments

Capesize market gains spread into other segments, leading the Baltic Dry Index to reach its highest level since January 2014. The gains in...

[Watch] Container Ship Crashes into Gantry Crane in Indonesia

Panama-flagged container ship Soul of Luck collided into a gantry crane in Semarang, Indonesia on Sunday 14 July, causing the crane to collapse. Video obtained...

Pirates Kidnap 10 Turkish Sailors Off Nigeria Coast

Armed sea pirates capture crew members on Turkey-registered cargo ship during an attack in the Gulf of Guinea and kidnap 10, reports Daily Sabah. What...

Asian Ports Prepared for IMO 2020 With Hitachi’s Analyser

HHTAC delivered X-MET8000’s to both the MPA Singapore and the Australian Maritime Safety Authority as they required a fuel oil sulphur content test...

Containerships Executes First SIMOPS for LNG Bunkering

Containerships carries out SIMOPS bunkering on its LNG-powered CONTAINERSHIPS NORD vessel in the Port of Rotterdam.  CONTAINERSHIPS NORD becomes the first container carrier...