The week noticed a significant fall in the dry freight time charter rates for Supramaxes. The reason for the rates falling down has been...

The fire onboard container ship 'Yantain' is quickly emerging as a case study for maritime casualty management. The experts have requested a 'Place of...

A Vancouver Washman has become famous overnight due to his daredevil act of jumping off a cruise ship. In an Instagram video which has...

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), one of Japan’s largest shipping companies, is to increase the roll-out of Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress Service, across the remainder of...

Anthony Veder has announced that its Coral Methane has successfully carried out her first LNG bunkering operation on the world’s first LNG-powered cruise ship...

The word Norovirus is gaining prominence in the cruise ship world as an increasing number of travelers are getting affected by it. Winter bug Commonly known...

General cargo ship MURUETA under flag Panama, collided with pier at Barranquilla on 16 January 2019, says Maritime Bulletin. What happened? MURUETA arrived at Barranquilla from...

  Companies have gone for a combination of solutions of installing scrubbers, scraping fleet and using high-quality sulphur fuels to prepare for 2020 regulation. ...

Konecranes has agreed to supply floating cranes for sea operation led by China. The two Gottwald Model 8 floating cranes will be delivered...

MSC will receive some 330,000 teu of newbuild tonnage this year and will close the gap on Maersk Line, in the capacity rankings. ...

Protection Vessels International in their latest report highlighted the present maritime situation of the world and the report has been compiled as follows. Armed robbers...

The tanker report for 11 January 2019 has been compiled, it highlights the various market conditions faced by VLCC, Suezmax, Aframax, and Clean. VLCC In...

Ballast Water Management Convention’s D2 regulations require that the indicative testing methods utilized to analyze organisms. All three size classes of organisms need...

Bunker sales fell $379/mt in December when compared with $462/mt in November. The reason for fall has been attributed to fuel oil contamination issue and...

In a major development, Eniram, a Wärtsilä company has announced that they are digitalizing La Méridionale’s fleet of the French ferry operator La Méridionale,...

  Members have the option to use "equivalent" compliance mechanisms like Scrubbers in accordance with Regulation 4 of MARPOL Annex VI. A growing number...

Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea is negatively affecting the economic potential of the sea for countries in this region. In the past...

  The United Arab Emirates' Federal Transport Authority has reduced the number of flag states subject to the regulation below to the following: Albania Belize ...

To protect the Allied ships being sunk by German U-boats during WWII the British approved building aircraft carriers out of ice. With Canada...

According to a Platts report, bunker fuel premiums in Singapore have strengthened slightly in recent days owing to supply tightness for prompt loading and delivery...