Technical Update 2018/6/25 Viswa Lab has received six cases of machinery problems with heavy fuel bunkered in Panama ports of Balboa, Manzanillo and Cristobal. Four...

Tanker owner Frontline buys 20% share of a scrubbers company. The move came at a time when scrubbers have become the niche solution...

According to an analysis of the scrubber orderbook by class society DNV GL, ship owners are increasingly choosing systems that discharge treated water containing...

The German shipping line Hapag-Lloyd AG has recently cut down its profit forecast for the year owing to an overcapacity in the industry coupled...

As the demand for oil from the energy major BP slowed down, the company held up four of its supertankers off China’s east coast...

Diana Containerships Inc. , a global shipping company specializing in the ownership of containerships, announced that today it has completed the previously announced sale...

The shipowners are required to respond to new environmental rules in international shipping, Oman Drydock Company is seeing increasing inquiries atits yard for both...

Increasing number of abandoned vessel are flocking to UAE’s territorial waters since they offer help to abandoned ships. What happened? Mr.Al Nuaimi stressed that the ship...

The world’s mariners are protected by what may be the only minimum wage established across an entire global industry. Now, labor advocates are mobilizing...

Lifeboat inspection, fire drills, emergency generator training, keeping watch, new friendships, ports, building professional networks, and working far away from home and family. Life at...

Summary On 12 August 2017, the fishing vessel Mako departed San Remo, Victoria, bound for fishing grounds about 3 hours away. Once clear of Cape...

The US-China trade row is taking a toll on the container shipping industry as global trades slow down. Even before the new tariffs...

Andreas Hilides, Maritime Analyst for S&P Platts was skeptical about the way IMO 2020 is about to be implemented. Also, he is uncertain about...

Workers at US Workboats successfully “flipped” the 48,000-pound hull of the M/V Ocracoke Express on Monday, June 18, moving construction of the NC Ferry...

The "Enyo" and the "Manouk" were in route to collision on the Rhine, South of Königswinter in the morning of June 29, 2018. The "Enyo" suffered...

In the morning of June 29, 2018, a fire broke out aboard the "Columbia", which was docked at the Bellingham Cruise Terminal. At 8:15...

The best quality ship award for 2017 has been awarded to the containership ‘NYK Lyra’ by the Japan Federation of Pilots’ Associations (JFPA). Emphasis on...

THE marine fuels arm of France’s Total has agreed to co-charter, on a long-term basis, the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) bunker vessel to...

An agreement has been signed between Korea Development Bank (KDB), local steelmaker POSCO, and three South Korean shipping companies to install scrubbers on bulk...

On June 28, a man was killed and three other people were injured at the Port of Longview after a line from a ship...