Leanships: Changing the Tide in Shipbuilding

Imagine you are sailing on a vessel designed to reduce CO2 emissions by 25% and completely eliminate other pollutants, like sulphur or nitrogen oxide. Believe...

Chinese Diesel to be Shipped ‘West’ in VLCC

In a rare shipment, a diesel cargo will be loaded into a very large crude carrier (VLCC) from a refinery at China’s Tianjin port...

Cargo Ship Nearly Crushes a Tugboat

On March 19, a video surfaced showing a cargo ship colliding with a tugboat and in the process nearly crushing it. What happened? The recorded video...

[Watch] Dramatic Boxship Collision

Dozens of containers fell into the sea at the Port of Karachi after a Hapag-Lloyd ship collided with another container vessel. Disclaimer: This video is...

21 Containers Fell into the Sea After Two Ships Collide

On March 19, a boxship collided into an another which resulted in multiple containers falling off the vessel. What happened? The Hapag-Llyod’s container vessel ‘Tolten’ collided...

Oil Leak and Sea Water Ingress Damage Engine

On March 18, a vessel suffered engine damage following an oil and water leakage in the engine room. What happened? The vessel ‘Freifjord’ was enroute from...

1,000 LNG Bunkering Operations by Skangas

Demand for LNG on a rise in Nordics Marine Market. Skangas today announced that it completed 1,000 liquid natural gas (LNG) bunkering operations in 2017,...

MLC 2006 as Amended: Financial Security Requirements

The Maritime Labour Convention have been amended. Regulation 2.5.2 and Regulation 4.2 are in place now. These regulation will take care of financial...

Corrosion Control and the Autonomous Ship

The remarkable success of autonomous and remotely-controlled vehicles on land and in the air, and the interest in this technology being shown within the...

Active-fin Stabilisers for Large Vessels

The Brown Brothers Neptun II folding stabilisers for large vessels. Fin area: 4.2 - 22.33 m2, total weight: 36.5 -190 tonnes. The transatlantic liner QUEEN...

Essential Equipment Inspection by Bulk Shipping Operators

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has recently signed two inspection service agreements with experienced dry bulk shipping operators, ESL Shipping and Wagenborg Shipping, to ensure...

Ship Finance International Acquires Fifteen, Sells One Boxship

Bermuda-based shipowner Ship Finance International has decided to acquire a fleet of fifteen feeder-size container vessels and sell a 1,700 TEU boxship. As informed, the...

Maersk Reduced Port Calls in Line with Bigger Ships

Plans by Maersk Line to reduce the amount of duplicate port calls and allocate more buffer time around hub ports to increase schedule reliability...

Seaworthy Vessels May Not be a Waste! Seatrade to Appeal

On March 19, the Rotterdam District court convicted Seatrade for the sale of ships to India and also ordered the vessels to be demolished....

Daphne the Giant Rescued at Sea

About a week ago, an inflated duck named ‘Daphne the giant’ was reported missing at Sea and was feared to be lost forever. However...

Fuel Monitoring Platform for Ships Launched

We4Sea, a young maritime technology start-up focussed on increasing the fuel efficiency of seagoing ships, has launched a new version of their fuel efficiency...

Wärtsilä Acquires Transas! Smart Marine Ecosystem Shaping Up

The technology group Wärtsilä is to acquire Transas, a global company headquartered in the U.K. The move will speed Wärtsilä along its path towards...

Direct Load Analysis and Strength Assessment – Guidelines from ClassNK

A leading classification society, ClassNK, has released its Guidelines for Direct Load Analysis and Strength Assessment of hull structure. These guidelines incorporate the load...

Can You Name this Ship Part?

Watch out here for the right answers and the winners. If you have any picture based or text based challenge that you want to share....

First Shipping Transaction on Ethereum Blockchain

300cubits is pleased to announce successful completion of the first trial shipment in its smart contract deployed on the Ethereum blockchain. TEU tokens held as...