Safety exercise ends up in disaster killing a crew member Safety drill on the Harmony of the Seas Kills a crew injures four others. ...

Bulker Aground in Lake Superior In 1845, Royal Navy officer Sir John Franklin set out with two ships—the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus—and a...

Foreign shipping lines are increasing their transpacific routes after Korea’s largest shipper, Hanjin Shipping, filed for court receivership last month. Strategies Maersk The world’s largest shipper, Maersk...

A Japanese company has developed a special barnacle-busting paint that dramatically affects a ship's performance at sea.  When barnacles, green mussels, and other organisms...

Stowaway Huntsman spider found in Dumbarton shipping container The workers in London were in for a surprise when they encountered a poisonous tropical spider stowed...

The World’s Biggest Floating Natural Gas Terminal Can’t Get Steady Work Shipper Mitsui O.S.K. Lines thinks big.  Its new 40 billion yen ($394 million) floating...

The ship ‘Astro Tamoio’ owned by ‘Astromaritima Navegacao’ which was due for launch on 1st October has been involved in a water cannon accident...

Derry Firm Fined £15,000 Over Workers Fall from a Crane Derry firm Burke Shipping services have been fined £15,000 for breaching the well-being and protection...

The first week of September 2016 got under way with the oil price making significant gains. However, these gains are only enough to drive...

The Zika Virus *Update* Zika Virus: China Adds Singapore to the list of Affected Countries Further to our Industry News of 24 March 2016, we have...

Super Typhoon Targets Taiwan, Mainland China Super Typhoon Meranti will hold on to its intensity over next couple of days before pounding Taiwan with flooding...

Women Seafarers It's still a rarity to find women workers at sea, but thanks to the trade unions, more women are confronting prejudice and becoming...

Bulker Aground in Lake Superior The video above shows Höegh Target, a Pure Car Truck Carrier (PCTC) owned by the Norwegian RoRo shipping company...

The world’s largest Pure Car and Truck Carrier (PCTC) Höegh Target is transiting the new locks of the expanded Panama Canal on Thursday. The vessel...

Wärtsilä to supply comprehensive scope of solutions for four new Swedish LNG fuelled tankers Wärtsilä, the leading provider of LNG fuel solutions to the marine...

Thousands of vessels every year move through Alaska’s waters.  If something goes awry, their cargo and fuel could end up in the ocean.Cleanup efforts...

‘Extremophile Bacteria’ Will Eat Away Wreck of the Titanic by 2030 RMS Titanic has sat deep on the bottom of the North Atlantic, two miles...

The Panama Canal has so far gained 80 million dollars due to the its expansion allowing the transit of 165 large vessels, according to...

Second ship from bankrupt Hanjin allowed into California ports A portion of the $14 billion in cargo trapped at sea by the bankruptcy of Hanjin...

A U.S. sailor delivered a baby at sea — in the middle of the ISIS war On September 11, a third class petty officer from...