Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, has received orders for two 2,700 TEU containerships from Lomar Shipping.  The shipyard has...

Bourbon has expressed its willingness to stick to its present policy to temporarily stack vessels that are not much in activity for past three...

What Happened: During discharge of copper sulfide concentrate, oxygen-deficient air was inhaled, leading to anoxia. Incident: A General cargo ship carrying copper concentrate, berthed at a wharf...

DSME has planned to sell its Seoul Headquarters and has already received three bids for the tower block.  Due to the offshore slump, the company...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Further to our News on Hurricane Patricia Grounds And Threatens Breaking Of Bulk Carrier, here is an update on the salvage operations planned on...

Singapore’s Sembcorp Marine on Tuesday (Nov 3) opened a new steel structure fabrication workshop - the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia. Sembcorp Marine...

Accident : Passenger falls overboard Date : 6th November 2015 Vessel Involved : Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas, a cruise ship Location : Approximately 80 nautical miles northeast of Mayaguana,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Accident : Collision Vessel involved : Turkish bulk carrier and Vietnamese cargo vessel Casualties : None The two vessels collided with each other while transiting the Straits of Singapore.  A...

Accident : Cargo Ship Caught Fire Vessel Involved : Soya Maru (IMO: 8907462) Cargo Onboard : Scrap Date : 8th November 2015 Location : West of Matsuyama, Inner Japan Sea Casualties : None Route :From Osaka to...

New statutory Tanker requirements on the installation and operation of Inert gas systems New statutory requirements for fixed inert gas systems will enter into force...

ECA - Emission Control Areas - require Ocean-Going Vessels (OGV) to comply with the emission requirements by switching to 0.1% sulphur fuel from 1st...

A ten-day dockworkers’ strike will affect the three Portuguese ports starting from November 14. In order to protest at a potential end of collective bargaining...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be The heavy lift ship Zhen Hua 26 arrived at the APM Terminal Lázaro Cárdenas (TEC2) delivering the world’s largest ship to shore cranes. Highlights: It has...

CSCL revealed in an announcement on Friday that a unit of China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) has entered into bareboat charter agreements for the...

A Simple System Purifies All The Drinking Water For a Remote Mexican Village https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Till recent times, soda was cheaper than bottled water in La Mancalona,...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Statoil has made the final investment decision to build the world’s first floating wind farm: The Hywind pilot park offshore Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This...

Firefighters from across Tyne Wear Fire and Rescue services rushed to the port after the Port of Tyne raised a fire alert on a...

Incident : Vessel grounding Vessel Involved : Containership Sylt Location : Bremerhaven Pollution : Oil spill The vessel, en route from Vuosaari, Finland to Copenhagen, Denmark, arrived at the German port and...

Open-water swimmer Simon Holliday swam from Hong Kong to Macau on 24 May 2014.  In that he created a record for fastest swim from...

Accident : Fire Vessel Involved : Awassi Express, a livestock carrier Cargo Onboard : Grains Date : 3rd November 2015 Location : Off the coast of Victoria in Australia Casualties : None A livestock carrier, carrying...