Ship Officer Imprisoned for Dumping Oily Waste in Ocean A 50-year-old named Giacomo Curatolo, a senior officer of an Italian oil tanker has been sentenced...

The second The Maritime Standard Ship Finance and Trade Conference, held in Abu Dhabi at the Sheraton Hotel and Resort, took full advantage of...

Inmarsat Selected as the Volvo Ocean Race’s Global Satellite Communications Partner for 2017-18 Race Partnership creates the world’s most digitally connected competitive sailing event for...

Shipwreck found Underneath Vienna Bridge being Preserved, Brought Home to Vienna Eighteen months ago, a barge was traveling beneath the Vienna bridge and hit one...

SOLAS – Amendments to the IMSBC Code (Amendment 03-15) – Reminder Contracting governments to the SOLAS Convention have been able to apply the amendments in...

By Dave Zentner A column Sunday in the News Tribune advocated in favor of legislation known as the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act, or VIDA (“Set...

Remi Eriksen, Group President and CEO DNV GL, discussed some of the upcoming developments in the maritime world in his speech at the Danish...

The shipping industry accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than airplanes, buses or trains.  Yet this issue was not included in last year’s Paris...

Watch a dramatic video that shows a 200m long cargo ship that got stranded in Dover waters as huge waves and high winds blast...

A boat hauling dozens of barges broke apart, sending debris all across the Mississippi River near Memphis. Disclaimer: This video is intended for informational purpose...

The Coast Guard has closed the Mississippi River from mile marker 771 to mile marker 750 approximately 20 miles north of Memphis, Tennessee, Saturday. The...

On November 20, as powerful Storm Angus lashed parts of UK, a cargo ship crashed into another vessel near Dover.  All twenty-three crew members...

On November 19, the U.S Coast Guard monitored the transit of a motor vessel that had run aground in the Columbia River near Skamokawa,...

The Shipping firm Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has finalized logo design for their next-generation car carriers named “FLEXIE”. The unveiling of the logo is said to...

Ahead of her keynote at IoT World in Dublin later this November, Maersk Line’s Catja Hjorth Rasmussen talks about how the company uses IoT to...

There are fears the sunken vessels off Indonesia, which are the graves of 2,200 people, may have been salvaged for metal. An international investigation has...

AIS vessel tracking service, MarineTraffic, has joined the Green Award scheme. An increasing number of ship operators are using intelligence derived from AIS data to...

The crew of a cargo ship told how they helped save a drowning man from the Thames.  The Polla Rose was leaving Comley’s Wharf in...

Merle McKenzie, of All West P&I Services Ltd, becomes the Shipowners’ Club exclusive Correspondent in Western Canada. The Shipowners’ Club, the leading P&I insurer in...

Oceans Protection Plan includes robust polluter-pay approach to abandoned, derelict and wrecked vessels Canada’s new $1.5 billion national Oceans Protection Plan involves a raft of...