How Safe are Panama Canal’s Tugs instead of the Mules? - Doubts Allianz Insurance company Allianz in its briefing examines the risk management impact of...

 ECA - One Year Later The use of distillate fuels is currently regarded as the easiest compliance method, both from a technical and financial point...

Swede Commits Suicide by Jumping Off Ship A Swedish national facing charges of human trafficking died on 21st June after he jumped off a vessel, about...

Bulker Aground in Lake Superior On June 19 at 12.20 a.m., a Swiss flagged general cargo ship suffered a fire aboard its engine room...

Bulker Aground in Lake Superior Officers of the National Coast Guard were hard at work, Sunday, June 19, to install the buoys.  This, after...

On June 19, the Environment Minister Alain Wong, reportedly was dissatisfied with reports about salvage plan, personally took a dive to film under the...

An oil spill has occurred in the Russian port of Nakhodka, located in Primorsky Territory, Russia’s Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport (Rosmorrechflot)...

Vietnamese Crewmen Held Over Killing of South Korea Ship Captain, Engineer: Coast Guard Two Vietnamese crewmen on a South Korean fishing vessel in the Indian...

Marine Archaeologists Explore 17th Century Dutch Shipwreck in Iceland The oldest known shipwreck around the coast of Iceland is currently being researched by marine archaeologists...

‘Fuel switching’ and ‘Loss Of Propulsion’ has come back to the spotlight of again and this is mainly attributed to the recent NTSB reports...

A week after publishing ‘Fuel Quality Watchdog’ - where it was stated that Fuel Changeover & Loss of Propulsion (LOP) Risks are Increasing Alarmingly!...

Five international shipping companies have recently been reported to the Danish Ministry of Environment and Food for flouting regulations that relate to the levels...

Summary On March 9, 2015, at 1230 central daylight time, the inbound bulk carrier Conti Peridot collided with the outbound tanker Carla Maersk in the...

Mr O'Keefe was spotted flicking a cigarette overboard by a P&O security office and was warned by the security guard.  Later reports say he...

Marine Safety Information Bulletin — Small Passenger Vessel Crew Requirements & Passenger Accountability This bulletin is intended to serve as an important reminder to Small...

Up until January 2015 vessels transiting ECAs switched between high sulphur residual fuel and low sulphur residual fuel.  For the liners operated in and out...

On 23 June 2016, voters in the UK and Gibraltar will vote on whether the UK should leave the EU.  Almost no-one living in...

Panagiotis Koutoukakis, a Greek national and the chief engineer of a chemical tanker that docked in North Charleston in 2015, was charged this week...

Bulker Aground in Lake Superior Are you a fan of Star Wars? Then you’ll definitely like the U.S. Navy‘s Phalanx CIWS.  They’ve been nicknamed...

The Azipod® propulsion units, SKF’s industry leading technology development, is helping to enhance the reliability and reduce the life cycle cost of propulsion units...