Stranded Sailor with No Life Jacket Rescued after 20 Hours Off...

Stranded Florida Man Rescued after 20 Hours in the Ocean With No Life Jacket   William Durden, from Reno, Nevada, was located about 15 nautical...

Cargo Ship Ran Aground Off Luebeck

 Cargo Ship that Ran Aground Due to Gusty Winds Off Luebeck was Refloated On June 1, 2016, strong winds pushed a cargo vessel LENE D...

Navy Ship Collides with Product Tanker Off Puerto Belgrano

On June 1, Argentinean Navy corvette ARA ESPORA dragged anchor and allided with an anchored freighter in Puerto Belgrano Naval Base area, south of...

New Outlook for Oil Prices

Crude Prices have touched $50 per barrel and has generated a plethora of comments, projections and predictions. First of all, the Saudis’s came out with...

Is this a Totally New Kind of Aircraft?

Bulker Aground in Lake Superior Drones are more formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).  Essentially, Drone is a flying robot.  The aircraft may...

Uncharted Waters: Restoring Deep Gulf Fouled by BP Spill

Far offshore and a mile deep in the dark world below the Gulf of Mexico's gleaming surface, the catastrophic BP oil spill of 2010...

[Watch] How to Survive Being Stranded at Sea Until Rescue Arrives

The rescue of boaters stranded in Lake Erie was just one dramatic example of the work of the U.S. Coast Guard, who save thousands...

China Seizes Oil Tanker in Tax Evasion Probe

China seized a tanker and detained several people last month, including one employee of Swiss trading house Gunvor, as part of a probe into...

Goltens to Retrofit Dutch Naval Vessels with Ballast Water Treatment Systems

Goltens to Outfit Dutch Naval Vessels with Ballast Water Treatment Systems Goltens wins contracts to retrofit ten Royal Netherlands Naval vessels with Optimarin Ballast Water...

Rickmers-Linie Takes Over Nordana’s Project Business

Rickmers-Linie, the Hamburg based liner service specialist for breakbulk, heavy lift and project cargoes takes over the activities of tramp and chartering specialist Nordana...

A.E. Ames: Salt Shipper Got Drafted into War

The A.E. Ames left the Great Lakes for saltwater service in 1917 and never returned.  It continued to operate overseas after the war only...

Freighter with 2,000 Pounds of Cocaine Aboard Nabbed on the Miami...

‘Miami Vice’-style Coke Bust on the Miami River A routine search operation by the Customs and Border Protection on those vessels that come in from...

FAQs – New SOLAS Regulation

1. What is Verified Gross Mass (VGM)? Verified Gross Mass means that the weight of each packed container must be proven.  This Verified Gross Weight...

MARPOL Annex VI: Stricter Emission Controls for Ships

Paris MOU Agrees on a Concentrated Inspection Campaign on MARPOL ANNEX V In 2018 The Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (Paris MoU)...

Feline ‘Captain’ of a Russian Cruise Ship Charms Passengers

Russian Sailor Cats Melt Hearts of Passengers Cruising Between Moscow and St. Petersburg A cat aboard a Russian tourist ship made news spread of the...

Beijing Fetish Restaurant Teases with Lobster and Sex

With drinks served in breast-shaped cups and beers opened with bottle openers shaped like a wooden penis, the father and daughter team behind a...

[Watch] A Zero Emissions Conceptual Cargo Ship

Watch a video demonstrating the state of the art zero-emissions and low impact sail cargo ship from The Fair Winds Trading Company (FWTC), which...

Shipping Containers Turn into Deadly Prisons in South Sudan

Nowadays in South Sudan the most prevalent building structures are none other than a bang-up old shipping container.  They are 8-by-20-ft metal boxes which...

If Captain Cook’s Ship is Found, Whose is it?

If the ship legendary explorer Capt. James Cook used to sail around the world is found, Rhode Island will own it outright. That's because of...

Suspected Stowaways Nabbed from Cargo Ship

Suspected stowaways, who  boarded a Malaysia bound cargo ship, were arrested by Operatives of the Marine Police Command. Ben Ogungbure, a Deputy Superintendent of Police...