Preventive Maintenance Achieves 202% Return on Investment for Turbochargers

Independent study demonstrates that ABB’s Preventive Maintenance model for turbochargers achieves significant cost and operational benefits ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has...

Selektope® Shortlisted for Two More 2016 Environmental Awards

Selektope®, the innovative ingredient used in marine antifouling coatings whose prevention of barnacle growth on ship hulls yields fuel savings, has been shortlisted for...

Intellian Technologies Announces Initial Public Offering

Intellian Technologies, Inc. (“Intellian” or “the company”), announced an initial public offering of 1,450,000 common shares via the KOSDAQ, at an initial price of...

Barnacle Busting: Research Targets Ship Biofouling

Individually, tiny barnacles pose little threat to hulking U.S. Navy ships.  But when clustered in thick clumps on a vessel's hull, this is natural...

Cargo Insurers “Break Limits” in Unprecedented Judgment

Cargo Insurers “break limits” in unprecedented judgment, October 2016 Following the fire and sinking of the bulk carrier ATLANTIK CONFIDENCE off the coast of Oman...

Coral Bleaching Not a Hindrance to Underwater Sex Show

Great Barrier Reef: Coral bleaching not a hindrance to underwater sex show Coral bleaching is deemed not be a hindrance for the greatest underwater sex...

Lifeboat Crew Saved the Lives of Two Men in the Firth...

Kinghorn RNLI lifeboat crew saved the lives of two men in the Firth of Forth on Sunday afternoon, after their dinghy capsized off Portobello. The...

[Watch] Crew Saved the Lives of Two Men

Kinghorn lifeboat crew rushed to save two men whose dinghy capsized off Portobello on Sunday. The dramatic rescue came after the vessel’s mast collapsed, causing...

Ceremony to Mark Start of Attenborough Polar Ship Construction

Construction of the UK's new £200m polar research ship, the RRS Sir David Attenborough, formally begins on Monday at Cammell Laird on Merseyside. A ceremony...

[Watch] Work Begins on £200m Attenborough Polar Ship

The construction of the UK's £200m polar research ship, the RRS Sir David Attenborough, has formally begun at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead. The...

Unmanned Warrior Exercise Off the Coast of Scotland

US, UK do ‘Ground-breaking’ Drone Exercise Off Scotland The multinational Unmanned Warrior exercise off the coast of Scotland is doing “really groundbreaking” work on naval...

Maritime Security Threats in Southeast Asia

Maritime Security Threats In Southeast Asia: A Collective Approach – Analysis Singapore, the small island-nation with busy and congested waterways, faces significant maritime security challenges....

Five Star Venue Confirmed for The Maritime Standard Ship Finance and...

The second annual The Maritime Standard Ship Finance and Trade Conference will take place in Abu Dhabi on November 14th.  An exciting new venue...

Shipping Giant Guilty of Vessel Scrapping Deception

The shipping giant Maersk has confessed to deception in its handling of the scrapping of vessels on the Indian and Bangladeshi coast in 2014,...

Jotun and DNV GL Host Seminar Series on ISO 19030 for...

Jotun Hull Performance Solutions (Jotun) has announced that, along with DNV GL, it is hosting a series of seminars - the latest of which...

Vessel Detained for Smuggling Goods

On October 16th, the Indonesian navy detained a Singapore-flagged container and its crew of 12, supposedly for smuggling used television sets, refrigerators and other...

Container Shipping Market has Bottomed Out

Hanjin’s receivership represents the trough of the container shipping market and despite continuing concerns of weak trade growth and fleet oversupply a gradual market...

Little Reprieve for Multipurpose Shipping Until 2018

The last three months have been some of the worst the multipurpose and project carrier sector has endured in living memory.  The breakbulk and...

Maersk Changed its Stance on Alang

Maersk has settled in at the world's ship graveyard  (Alang, India) : the complete scenario by ShippingWatch ShippingWatch was invited to Alang by the Maersk...

Oil Tanker Hijackers to be Deported for Further Investigation

Eight Indonesians are to be deported from Vietnam for trial in Malaysia for raiding the tanker Orkim Harmony in June last year. Malaysian Maritime Enforcement...