Clean Energy Provides Bunkering Services

Clean Energy Provides Bunkering Services And Fuel To World’s First LNG-Powered Container Ships Clean Energy Fuels Corp. participated in a little history last month when...

[Saviour] A Man Rescued Pregnant Lady in Paris Attack

A Man, identified as Sebastian, rescued a pregnant woman who was hanging a from a window ledge at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris...

Drones to Become ECA Compliance Watchdog!

European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) recently hosted a workshop Called Remotely Piloted Airborne Systems for Maritime Surveillance (RPAS) in late October 2015. The main...

EU – MRV – Is It The Next Step In Emission...

The European Union and its Member States have a strong preference for a global approach to reduce GHG (Greenhouse Gas) emissions from international shipping...

Terror Alert From Paris To Panama

Panama has launched its Terror alert in order to prevent an expected chaos to commercial shipping in Europe. A document that was seized by a...

‘I am HIV Positive’ Admits Actor Charlie Sheen

The wayward star of U.S. television comedy "Two and A Half Men", actor Charlie Sheen, aged 50, confirmed in a US Television interview -...

[Tragic] Is Kenya The Risky Place To Give Birth?

The hospital in a remote location in Kenya has no advanced facilities to help pregnant women who enter into labor.  Fardowsa Abdi, a 25-year-old,...

[Watch] Sideways Launch Of The Sail Training Ship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Vessel Launched : El-Mellah Launch Port : Remontowa shipyard in Gdansk, Poland The hull of the sail training ship was launched at the Remontowa shipyard which is built...

Picturing The Future Literally

In the current technology context, there is a supplement to the oft-quoted saying, ‘The pen might be mightier than the sword’: a picture can...

The Sultana (1865): Catastrophe On The Mississippi River

Accident type : Explosion Vessel involved : Sultana Location : Mississippi River Date : April 27, 1865 Casualties : 1,800 people died VESSEL INFO: Name : Sultana Built in : 1863 Flag : America Type/class : side-wheel steamboat Tonnage : 1,719 tons Length : 260 feet Beam :...

Cyprus Government’s New Policy

Cyprus Government’s New Policy : No Army Duty If Parents Are Ship-Owners The government of Cyprus is pushing for a new law to exempt children...

Atlantic Star, World’s Largest Combination Container

Atlantic Container Line (ACL) runs a weekly service linking North America’s eastern seaboard with northern Europe.  The transatlantic operation caters for containers, project and...

Fuel-Centric Designs For Futuristic Ships

There is a growing need to run ships more efficiently and sustainably.  The giant container ships used the huge two-stroke diesels, a combined gas...

Videotel’s Training Covers 10 Million Training Events

Videotel’s Training Covers 10 Million Training Events in 12,000 Vessels Worldwide Videotel, a company of KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI), is the leading international provider...

Product Tankers Collide In The Arctic

Accident : Collision Date : 12th November 2015 Vessels Involved : Svyatoy Petr and Svyatoy Pavel Location : The Laptev Sea, north of Russia Casualties/Pollution : Nil The two small clean product tankers involved...

Use Data Analytics to Improve Shipboard Operations and Energy Efficiency.

  Please Feel Free to Download the VEEMS (Viswa Energy Efficiency Management System) Architecture and Supplement below: (Disable Pop-up Blockers to allow Download) Marine Maintenance is not...

Coffee Drinkers Can Have Long Life

A new study suggests that people who drink a lot of coffee have lower rates of death Research revealed that people who drank 1 to...

Be Watchful! Your Fumigated Cargo Hold Can Explode

Are you aware of fumigation? Fumigation is is a method of pest control that completely fills an area with gaseous pesticides or fumigants to suffocate...

[Watch] Collision of Ships on River Crossing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be “Wec van Ruysdael" crashes into "Paula" on starboard side and steering to hard to port.. Watch the collision in the bolbous bow.  The collision lasted...