She Sank With 389 Men!
Hiryū was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). It was the only one ship of her class, a modified Soryu...
60 Suffer from Gastro Problems – “A Floating Disaster Ship”
Pacific Eden, dubbed "floating disaster ship" and described as ‘worse than a one-star motel' by holidaymakers had returned to Sydney on Monday after a...
A Month without Spirit
New Scientist staff have teamed up with Rajiv Jalan at the Institute for Liver and Digestive Health at University College London Medical School (UCLMS) to investigate...
25 Years Of WWW
Tim Berners-Lee of Switzerland had on 20 December 1990 turned on the world’s first website. The site was used internally by CERN scientists until...
Top Ship Designs in 2015 – a Review
The ship designers are hard at work to boost the fuel efficiency of the industry and help ship owners meet upcoming environmental regulations.
GE Marine...
Bulk Carrier Explodes When Carrying Corn!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be
Accident
: Explosion
Vessel Type
: Bulk carrier
Date
: 28th December 2015
Location
: Near the port of Paranaguá
Casualties/Pollution
: Nil
The bulk carrier suffered an explosion on Monday. The reports state...
Narrow Escape – Seafarer Fell Overboard & Repatriated Home for Christmas
A Filipino Seafarer who was working on a vessel escaped an accident where he fell overboard from a ship berthed at Britain’s biggest container...
Steering Gear Failed & Ship Grounded
Accident
: Vessel Grounding
Vessel type
: General Cargo Ship
Location
: Bosphorus Strait
Casualties/Pollution
: Nil
A Turkish general cargo ship ran aground in Bosphorus Strait. The rudder failure in the...
Engine Stopped, Purifier Broke Down – All Because of BAD FUEL!
The vessel started consuming new bunkers after exhausting the older ones. After putting the bunkers in use, the vessel reported heavy sludge formation in...
Call For Increased Investment In Mental Health Services
Stigma has been a seemingly uphill battle for all who have experienced a mental health condition or who have known someone facing these challenges....
You Are Really At The Mercy Of The Cruise Ship!!
A recent outbreak of 60 cases of gastroenteritis aboard vessel has put the holiday makers in difficult times. Some of them have started looking...
Air Pollutants Reduced by Hundreds of Tons!
ECA has really become the buzzword in shipping and we are 12 months past the ECA regulation enforcement. Did the maritime industry achieve what...
Risk of Liquefaction Even in Case of ‘Group A’ Cargo...
Incident:
A vessel with 20,000 MT of iron ore fines listed immediately after its departure. The vessel continued to list to such dangerous levels and...
[VIDEO] Indian Cobra Rescued from a Containership
A stow-away Indian Cobra was rescued from a container ship bound for the APM Terminals in New Jersey. On December 10th, the ship was...
Collision & Grounding on Christmas Eve
A container vessel ran aground off Hong Kong while a cargo ship allided with Canal lock doors during Christmas Eve.
Incident
: Vessel Grounding
Location
: Off Hong...
7 Major Shipping Companies Fined $63 million!
A fine of 407 million yuan has been posed on seven major international shipping companies by China after a year-long investigation.
The National Development and...
Commodities Shipping on Fire
In 2016 only the fittest of the shipping companies would survive because of the deepening crisis caused by less demand and a surplus of...
Baltic Index On A High
The Baltic Exchange's main sea freight index, tracks rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities. The overall index, which gauges the cost of shipping...
No (Low) Traffic at Suez Canal
The Suez Canal traffic data from 18 to 23 December is as follows :
Number of ships transited the canal
: 283.
Total load carried
: 19.683m tonnes.
Daily...
Watch Out – Ship Arrests on the Raise at Australian Ports
The Federal Court can arrest any ship in Australian waters if a claim is lodged against the ship’s owner or operator, for a debt...
