Crude Tanker Deliveries Hit Two-year Quarterly High
Global VLCC, Suezmax, and Aframax fleets each grew more in the period from January through March than in any quarter, according to ship delivery...
Ship Owners to Reduce Rates
Freight market: Ship owners to reduce rates because of fall in demand for grain transportation
Demand for grain transportation decreased on all major routes. Ship...
Bulker Involved in Near Collision While Bunkering at Gibraltar
Two bulk carriers, the Unity and Furious, were involved in a near collision at Gibraltar this week, local media reports.
Furious is understood to have...
Maersk Takes Delivery of World’s Largest Box Ship
The Danish ocean carrier took delivery of the world’s largest box ship on Tuesday, the 20,568-TEU.
Largest containership delivered:
Maersk Line has taken delivery of the...
[Watch] Near-collision Between Ships
Two ships nearly collided in the Bay, with the resulting clamour of fog-horns heard across Gibraltar.
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Woman’s Titanic Locket Found in Wreckage
Locket belonging to woman whose husband died on the Titanic found in wreckage
Unlike the fictional film character Rose, Virginia Clark’s love story started before...
Catastrophe Looms at Ports After Brexit, Shipping Industry Warns
The UK is facing an “absolute catastrophe” if it does not sort out a “frictionless and seamless” border at Dover and other ports, the...
Are Autonomous Ships the Next Terrorist Attack Weapons?
Gone are the days where intricate plans to deploy bombs or hijack planes were the expected scenarios for a terrorist attack.
Shots in terror technology...
Wärtsilä Partners with Keppel Shipyard to Ease BWMS Retrofits
Wärtsilä has collaborated with Singapore's Keppel Shipyard (KSL) to ease the process of retrofitting ship ballast water management systems (BWMS) for ship owners and...
Environmental Disaster by a Grounded Ship
Whitsunday’s most sensitive environmental areas could be under threat because of a ship wrecked on the coast is causing oil spill.
What happened?
The rusted Japanese-built...
The Monster Ships that Changed How We Travel
The beauty salons, swimming pools and even wireless communications of today’s huge cruise ships all got their start with the “floating palaces” of a...
NGOs Push for a Mediterranean ECA
An alliance of several European environmental organizations recently adopted a declaration to designate the Mediterranean Sea an Emission Control Area (ECA), aimed at limiting...
Bunker Industry- 100% Sulfur Compliance by 2020 is a Distant Dream
The world’s bunker industry is making progress in inching toward meeting the International Maritime Organization (IMO) global sulfur cap target by 2020, but with...
Three Ways to Improve Commercial Shipping’s Environmental Footprint
Do you wear runners, drink coffee or own a mobile phone? The chances are that these products cruised to you on a ship. In...
Biggest Drilling Ship Set to Reach the Earth’s Mantle
Earth’s elusive mantle is too much to resist for a team of Japanese scientists who plan to be the first to reach it. The...
Marine Risks Continue to Grow Both in Size and Complexity
IUMI reports continued increase in frequency of major vessel casualties
Rising energy claims against a reducing premium base; and the increased cargo accumulation risk onboard...
Option of a Two Stage Rudder Explored
ZF applied a well-proven aeronautical wing concept to improve maritime rudder performance, but there are other proven aspects of aeronautical wing technology that show...
MOL Plans Four 20,000 TEU LNG Mega-ships
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL), the largest and oldest of Japan's international ocean carrier companies, has got the green light for four LNG-powered 20,000 TEU...
How Vessel Trim Optimisation Creates Efficiencies
A ship’s energy efficiency is determined by its design, its hull and machinery condition – and how the vessel is actually operated in terms...
Cargo Ship Drags Anchor and Allides with Two Maersk Drilling Vessels
A heavy load carrier apparently alluded with two oil drilling rigs when it tried to manoeuvre out of the port.
What happened?
On April 10, a...