Maritime Satellite communication Market Will Escalate By 2020

A survey report by markets and markets have issued a "Maritime Satellite Communication Market by Type (VSAT, MSS), Service (Voice, Video, Data, Tracking &...

Unique Opportunity For Artists On The Open Pacific

A Vancouver art gallery is all set once again to search for interested artists to spend 23 days in residency at sea.  It is...

Chemical Freight Rates Turn Up While Baltic Dry Index Follow a...

Cargoes carrying chemicals from US to England and Europe has increased rapidly.  As a result, the transatlantic eastbound chemical freight rates have also increased...

Amazon Looks At Newer Horizons

Amazon which is currently busy in sending millions of packages to people across the world may venture into a newer avenue – getting into...

Cargo Ship Collides With Freighter Off Port Of Piraeus

Accident type : Collision Vessels involved : Two Greek Cargo ships Location : Port of Piraeus Casualties Oil Spill : Not reported. A general cargo ship entering the port at the approach...

Bulk Carrier On Fire Off Venice

A fire broke out yesterday at the port of Venice on board 2007-built kamsarmax bulk carrier.  The vessel was reported to be carrying coal...

 Monster Waves Damage Container Ship

A storm in Mediterranean sea damaged an ultra large container ship. The new vessel of Kuwait’s state-company UASC was on first voyage with 12600 TEU...

Ship Crash Causes Power Outage at Stockton

5,000 people were out of power after a ship hit a power line at the Stockton port, causing a power outage on Tuesday. The...

Crew Lost Life Due To Hydraulic Injection

  Engineers onboard carry out a lot of maintenance and they deal with hydraulic and pneumatic tools often.  A crew lost his limb (some...

Queen Mary 2 Gives Birth to a Baby Boy

A baby was born aboard Queen Mary 2 that was docked in Brooklyn on sunday. An ocean liner was near the end of its transatlantic...

Blue Amazon: The LNG Ship of the Future

An innovative project to optimise LNG ship hull forms is set to reduce emissions and save significant amounts of fuel for LNG vessel operators. The...

57 Jumped Overboard as a Ferry Caught Fire (Update)

The vessel, operated by local firm White Island Tours, was carrying 53 passengers and seven crew members caught fire off the bar at Whakatane,...

[Watch] A City Under Water – A Peculiar Cloud Formation

  Watch the incredible time-lapse footage of weird  cloud formation known as undulatus asperatus rippling and pulsating over Augusta, Georgia, making the city look...

DSME Launches World’s First ICE-CLASS LNG Carrier

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME)launches its first ice - class LNG carrier. Arc 7 ice-class LNG carriers for the Yamal LNG project can break...

The Finest Hours: A Dad’s Amazing Heroism

Matthew Maske will be in Hollywood for the premiere of a movie based on the true story of his father’s heroism. “The Finest Hours” -...

Mercator to Exit Dry Bulk Shipping Business

As part of its ongoing portfolio-restructuring exercise Mercator decides to exit dry bulk cargo business. The bulk cargo-carrying business has been the worst affected...

Woman Beats Up Her Husband’s Mistress

The shocking moment a scorned wife apparently took revenge on her husband's mistress by throwing her from a bridge was captured on film. It's described...

Scilly Naval Disaster Of 1707 Kills 1,550 People

The ''Scilly naval disaster of 1707'' was the loss of four warships of a Royal Navy fleet off the Isles of Scilly in severe...

A Rusting Cargo Ship Leaks Contaminated Water into St. Lawrence River

A rusting cargo ship in Lake St. Louis is at imminent risk of leaking millions of litres of contaminated water that could end up...

The Port of Rotterdam Witness Uptrend Despite Global Slowdown

Increased throughput of crude oil and oil products helped port of Rotterdam increase its goods throughput by a total 4.9% to 466.4 million tonnes...