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...

[Watch] Terrifying Moment! A Shark Leaps Up and Almost Catches the...

 The scary moment when a fisherman has a close call with a shark after it lunges at him as he tries to cut it...

Abandoned Aframax Tanker Sold Via E-auction

Reports indicate that Shanghai Maritime Court has auctioned off over the web, the 1997-built aframax tanker Amba Bhakti on Taobao. Varun Shipping reportedly abandoned the vessel...

Transpacific Container Rates Under Extra Pressure

As shippers and carriers on the transpacific prepare for the annual contract negotiating season – which kicks off with the Journal of Commerce’s Transpacific...

VIKING Sees a Slight Improvement in Cargo and Offshore

For the second consecutive year, revenue and earnings remained stagnant for 2017 at VIKING Life-Saving Equipment A/S. Two of the largest customer segments, the...

Key Success Strategies by Thome

Gautam Kashyap, Thome’s Vice President for Business Development, outlined the Group’s strategies for success at the 2018 Connecticut Maritime Association shipping conference. “Ship Management is...

Baltic Dry Bulk Weekly Briefings

Capesize There were finally reports of increased Brazil activity, but still largely unconfirmed. Vale reportedly took six ships Thursday for 5th April onwards, from Tubarao...

Costly Safety Lessons! Ship Crashed

The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published a report of the investigation into the collision between cargo ship Saga Sky and Stema Barge...

[Watch] A Divers Shocking Footage of Plastic Waste

Shocking footage has emerged showing a Bali ocean containing tonnes of plastic waste, showing the damage that humans are doing to the world's ocean....