Barge Drifted Unmanned Through Brake Port

On April 1, a barge moored at port was unmoored by miscreants and drifted unmanned through the port of Brake. What happened? The tanker barge ‘Sero’...

Singapore: Four Bunker Tankers Arrested

On April 2, four bunker tankers were arrested at the Singapore port on charges of illegal importing of oil and cheating its clients. What happened? The...

Failure to Pay Crew! Container Ship Banned

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has banned a containership from entering or using the Australian ports for three months. What happened? The Liberian flagged container...

[Watch] 306-ton Unit 4 Reactor Vessel Placed at Vogtle Nuclear Expansion

Progress continues at Plant Vogtle Units 3 and 4. Here, we take a behind the scenes look at the placement of the reactor vessel...

[Watch] Jaws Drop as Great White Shark Interrupts Police Operation

The Killer shark A great white shark swimming in one of Australia’s most renowned shark habitats interrupted a police operation on Saturday by serenely terrifying...

IBIA Supports Industry with Best Practice Guidance to Assure Bunker Fuel...

The International Bunker Industry Association is proud to present the first edition of our “Best practice guidance for suppliers for assuring the quality of...

Top 2 Critical Checks to Safeguard Propulsion and Machinery in Heavy...

The U.S. Coast Guard's Inspections and Compliance Directorate has issued a Safety Alert to inform operators of the role that the main propulsion lube...

On-Demand Shipping Firm Shyp Calls It Quits

Shyp, a Silicon Valley packaging and delivery startup that promised to make shipping almost anything anywhere around the world as easy as two taps...

Hapag-Lloyd Sees Calmer Waters for Shipping Industry

On Wednesday, the German company Hapag-Lloyd said that their profits will boost in the coming year due to a recent merger and the growing...

Baltic Index Slumps on Weaker Vessel Rates

On Tuesday, 3rd April, the Baltic Index fell considerably as the primary freight index of the exchange, which tracks the rates of ships carrying...

Asia Pacific Dry Freight Market Stutters After Promising Start

The Asia Pacific dry bulk market shows a promising year ahead. The major indicators from Q1 bears testimonial to this. The Panamax...

S$200,000 Fine After Engineer Dies in Accident

On April 2, an offshore service company and its operations manager was fined $2,80,000 for an accident that claimed the life of an engineer...

Drifting Cargo Ship Collided with a Barge on the Waal

On April 1, a cargo vessel collided with a tank barge on the Waal, after it suffered a blackout in its engine room. What happened? The...

Maersk Princess is First to Transport Condensate Cargo from Wheatstone

A tanker vessel belonging to Maersk has earned the recognition for being the first vessel to transport condensate cargo from Australia. What happened? From April 2018,...

It’s an Air Pipe to Equalize the Tank Pressure with the...

Light, compact air pipe heads from WINTEB enable tank flushing (left) or tank sounding (right) Air pipe – A pipe provided to equalize the tank...

Can IT Help the Shipping Industry Deep-six the Container “No-show” Problem?

In late February, AP Moller-Maersk Group CEO Soren Skou laid out perhaps the most audacious strategy in the container shipping industry's 62-year history. He...

The Remarkable Story of the Largest Ship Ever Built

Were this to be a big-budget fiction movie, critics would declare the plot to be absurd: the story of a ship - the largest...

[Watch] How MFMs Benefit Vessel Operations

Singapore-based BW Group issued a short film explaining the background with respect to use of Mass Flow Meters, which are considered to bring change...

Wärtsilä‘s BWMS Submitted for USCG Type Approval

The technology group Wärtsilä has submitted its Aquarius Electro-Chlorination (EC) Ballast Water Management System (BWMS) to US Coast Guard (USCG) for obtaining a Type...

Four-year High in Shipping Confidence Levels

Shipping confidence reached a four-year high in the three months to end-February 2018, according to our latest Shipping Confidence Survey. The average confidence level expressed...