For several decades the heart of Greece's ship repair industry was beating at Perama, a western suburb of Piraeus port, until the Greek debt...

MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company(MSC) will retrofit 29 of its ships with scrubbers developed by Panasia, a South Korean marine equipment manufacturer. Where is retrofitting planned? Retrofitting...

Officials from the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project and the Australian National Maritime Museum plan to announce that they’ve narrowed their search down to...

A carriage ban on carrying fuel exceeding 0.50% sulphur will be adopted in MEPC 73. This makes the usage and carriage of fuel...

Container shippers face surcharge a year prior to actual start of sulfur cap. Maersk’s move to impose surcharges for the higher costs of low-sulfur...

Innovative Royal Caribbean Cruise liners Sexy white stair cases inspired by Van Cleef & Arpels in Paris Fancy lighting and glass walls to...

According to London shipbroker Braemar ACM, the containership charter rates are stable but depressed. Need for service repairs According to several broker sources, weakening of post-peak...

Aft section of Floating Dock No.169 collapsed during surfacing with two ships inside: tanker VOSTOK (reportedly, not confirmed) and oceanic trawler PIONER NIKOLAEVA, at...

The Coast Guard published a Final Rule eliminating the requirement for certain vessels that operate on voyages exclusively within a single Captain of the...

In a fortunate turn of events, a new crew has been assigned to take over the Indian-registered ship which has been stranded in a port for...

A container ship belonging to Maersk is reported to have been placed under arrest in Tunisia. The container ship was praised for giving asylum...

Denmark stands first at transiting a container ship via the Arctic Endured severe ice conditions with a powerful icebreaker Nuclear ice breaker, the...

CNN recently did a story on luxury superyachts and how they are designed to perfection as per the customers’ need. The story covers the...

The first BLOC’s bunker transaction using blockchain technology was made to a Samskip vessel via a Reinplus Vanwoerden bunker barge in Rotterdam on September...

In a recent development, Scorpio Tankers Inc. announced that they will reimburse certain commissions of the SCM vessel charges, says a press release published...

A recent report released by Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation (APICORP) iterates that IMO's stand on introducing new rules aimed at reducing the cap on...

A drunken Russian captain ran his ship aground off the coast of Helsingborg in southern Sweden. And he is said to have tried to...

On September 19, a Greek-flagged oil tanker ran aground in the shallow waters at the beach of Kanavas, Milos. What happened? The Greek-flagged oil tanker 'Fres'...

Anchored product tanker belonging to Scorpio Tankers, that arrived from Las Palmas, Spain was attacked by four armed robbers. What happened? On 17 September 2018, after...

Though technical, regulatory and financial aspects of the 2020 global fuel sulphur cap regime loom large in people’s minds, the importance of the contractual...