Blue Star Ferries Bags Energy Award

Event : Energy Mastering Awards 2015 Awardee : Blue Star Ferries Organised by : Boussias Communications The Blue Star Ferries bagged a ‘Silver Award’ for the category Energy Efficiency Management...

Zero Exhaust Emission Ferry By Wartsila

Wartsila has introduced the zero or low emission ferry concept on shuttle ferries.  This concept is in adherence to the Norwegian government’s new environmental...

Can Telemedicine Be The Future For Mariners At Sea?

Today’s communication techniques have achieved the higher duty of care to passengers and crew onboard the ship at sea. Yes.  Maritime Telemedical Assistance Services(TMAS)...

Vessel Hits Railroad Bridge

On Thursday around 7:44 a.m,  A towing vessel hit the Vicksburg Railroad Bridge near 435.8 mile marker. Reports say that all barges are intact and...

[Watch] Allision Of Barges On Mississippi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be According to USCG, a towboat pushing several dozen barges struck a railroad bridge in Vicksburg, Mississippi on Tuesday morning, while nine barges containing coal...

The Cutting Edge Of Maritime Innovation

Maiden LNG-fuelled bulker to match new DNV GL rules. ESL Shipping has built the maiden LNG dual-fuelled bulk carriers to the new set of DNV...

Type-2 Diabetics Cured After Surgery

The Lancet published the results of a trial on 60 people which found surgical reduction of the size of the stomach and small intestine...

SS Rockport Sinks With Load Of Iron Ore

SS Rockport had been built at Portland, Maine, as Wilfred B. Bellevue and completed in March 1945.  SS Rockport was originally an American Liberty...

[Watch] All You Need to Know About Container Weighing

Check out this Part-2 video, where he explains what equipment container weighing technology can be implemented, as well as answering whether a wider industry...

Tumors Glow Under These Glasses

Surgeons can use these glasses to operate tumors, which helps in identifying the Cancerous cells in bright glow colors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Dr. Samuel Achilefu, a professor of...

Delay In Next Ice Age By 100,000 Years

Scientist in Germany have revealed that the next ice age may be delayed by over 50,000 years.  The reason cited for this delay is...

Largest Container Line in 2016

Maersk Line Retains The Largest Container Line In 2016 Maersk Line still remains as the world’s largest container shipping line continuing onto 2016, according to...

Online Retailer To Build A Shipping Company

Analysts predict that  Amazon, which surpassed Walmart as the most valuable retailer in the US in 2015, is building its own shipping company.  This...

One Belt, One Road Gets A Key Greek Port

Chinese state-owned shipper,the Cosco Group, plans to acquire 51% of Piraeus Port Authority's outstanding shares for 300 million to 400 million euro ($325 million...

MPA Reaches 50% Of Its Target

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore has approved 60 ships for mass flowmeter bunkering operations. With this, the MPA has reached halfway of...

Two PSVs Launched For Otto

Two Platform supply vessels - ‘Go Matilda’ and ‘Go Mundara’, the sister ships, were launched by the Chinese Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry on January 6...

Gusts Blew Ship Off From Moorings

 Investigation On, As Ship Breaks Free From Moorings At about 6pm yesterday a 100km/h wind gusts blew the Spirit of Tasmania II free of its...

Royal Navy Chef Acquitted In Trial Accusing Him Of Filming Sex

The accused Royal Navy chef has been cleared of his charges of voyeurism for filming his sexual act with a colleague in a shower...

Fire on Cargo Ship

A cargo ship caught fire at 5.20 am yesterday, in its accommodation block, off the coast of Cromer. The vessel carrying wheat to Rotterdam relayed...

Get Trained to Operate Ships “Energy Efficiently” by IMO – for...

There were times where the crew were trained to work onboard a ship. Later a training to handle complex machinery.  Further, a training on...