[Watch] Ship Fire Creates Thick Smoke Over San Diego Harbor
A fire that ripped through a 120-foot-long fishing ship docked along downtown San Diego’s waterfront sent a cloud of thick, black smoke billowing over...
How do Cruise Ships Survive Hurricanes?
While the obvious fall-out from Hurricanes Irma and Maria – the twin forces of nature that have roared in the Atlantic this month –...
Hapag-Lloyd Takes Delivery of Last 15,000-TEU Vessel
The Germany ocean carrier has taken ownership of the last of a series of 17 ultra-large vessels first contracted in 2013 by UASC, and...
Crew Members of Foreign Cargo Ship Detained After Oil Leak
Coast Guard officers in Keratsini late on Wednesday detained the captain and first engineer of the Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship Ice Glacier after it...
Cargo Dumped, Crew Imprisoned
The "Fu Yuan Yu Leng 999" has sailed from San Cristóbal on Sep 26, 2017, around 8 p.m. in order to drop about 300...
Shipping Risks Rise as Antarctic Ice Hits Record Low
Sea ice cover in Antarctica dropped to a record low this year, scientists said, as they warned the frozen continent’s unpredictable nature poses growing...
Major Marine Firms Set Stage for Integration
China CSSC Holdings Ltd. and CSSC Offshore & Marine Engineering Company Ltd. both announced that their controlling shareholder, China State Shipbuilding Corp., is currently...
LNG Transfer Solution for Safer Operation
The Swedish coupling manufacturer and supplier MannTek has launched a liquefied natural gas small-scale transfer system that aims to make safer and easier operation...
Half Marooned Ship with Damaged Instruments Anchored Off Barcelona
The "C-Star" has dropped anchor off the coast of Barcelona on Sep 27. She was half-marooned, with the navigational instruments damaged and the crew...
Navios Maritime Partners: The $64,000 Question
By Tudor Invest Holdings
Summary
The increase in the BDI will translate into higher earnings.
Free cash flow has been established and is set to...
Crude Oil Carriers Market to Register Substantial Expansion by 2024
Transparency Market Research has released a new market report titled “Crude Oil Carriers Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth Trends and Forecast...
Capacity Concerns Cast Shadow Over Shipping Recovery
Supply and demand in container shipping will not reach a balance before 2019, analysts say, but there remains lingering concerns that the strict observance...
[Watch] Route of Greek Tanker Shown Before Sinking, Spilling Oil
An oil spill has prompted tricky questions for the Greek central government after tonnes of oil from a sunken tanker turned 40km of Athens' beaches black...
Retrofit to LNG Enables Emissions Reduction
An LNG engine conversion project has enabled a ship to reduce its SOx emissions by 99%.
The project involved the retrofitting of the MAN 8L48/60B...
Ferry Slammed into Cement Tanker
On September 26, a ferry reportedly collided with a tanker carrying concrete material.
What happened?
The ferry ‘Gorinchem X’ was involved in a collision with a...
Small Cargo Ship Sinks Off Athens
A few weeks after the sinking of Agia Zoni II tanker that caused immeasurable environmental damage to the Saronic Gulf, Greek authorities are trying...
Dutch Court to Hear New Case on I.Coast Chemical Spill
Over 500 cubic metres of toxic chemicals were dumped on garbage sites in the Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan in 2006, killng 17 people...
Top Four Dangerous Shipping Statistics
Shipping can cause deaths when people make oversights in container packing.
Dangerous situations can arise because of the weight of cargo and the way in...
2,000th Neopanamax Transits the New Panama Canal
Yesterday, the Panama Canal welcomed its 2,000th Neopanamax vessel through the waterway, demonstrating the route’s continued impact on maritime trade and the industry’s confidence...
Shell Set to be the First-mover in LNG Bunker-supply Infrastructure
Shell is consolidating its position as a first-mover in LNG bunker-supply infrastructure, firming up its plans for a third LNG bunker-supply ship, modifying the...