IMO is authorised under MARPOL Annex VI to establish ECAs where vessels have to control and reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulphur oxides (SOx)....

Battle To Save A Cargo Ship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Nine crew members are missing after their boat sank off the coast in stormy conditions. Rescue workers are also...

The Greatest Marine Horrors On Record Accident type : Collision Vessels involved : PS Lady Elgin and schooner Augusta Location : Lake Michigan Date : September 8, 1860 Casualties : About 300 lives VESSEL INFORMATION: Name :...

Hong Kong’s economy owes a great deal to the container port industry.  The combined midstream services of Hong Kong terminal operators (Hutchison Port Holdings...

Rotterdam Maasvlakte II terminal set a loading record last month on the Madison Maersk with 17,152 TEU loaded, including ten high above deck stowage....

On November 2, Alice Oldendorff, Portuguese-flagged bulk carrier (owned by Oldendorff Carriers of Lübeck) was sailing from Canada to New York when a Ukrainian...

In Finland, Hanasaari coal power plant at central and Salmisaari power plants at Helsinki produce roughly 50% of the heat in the entire region,...

American Petroleum Tankers (APT) had placed orders for five tankers with the General Dynamics NASSCO.  The first ‘ECO’ tanker was named ‘the Lone Star...

Sanmar Shipyards in Turkey has signed a Letter of Intent for the supply of an extensive range of propulsion units over the next three...

A Product tanker collided with a fishing vessel, southeast of Quanzhou, Taiwan Strait. Accident type : Collision Vessels involved : Hu You 8  and Min Shi Yu Location : Southeast of...

In what she described as a "win for the ladies" the American, who has won 21 Grand Slam singles titles, chased down the man...

Accident : Vessel Ran Aground on the river wall Vessel Involved : Bienville Date : Nov 4, 2015 Early hours Location : Goole, United Kingdom En route : From Riga Latvia to Goole UK Casualties : None A General...

3 seamen were rescued from a sinking vessel in the east of Cape Hatteras, NC. On 2nd November, 2015 Sector North Carolina watch standers got...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Shipbuilding Co. Receives Its First Order: Very Large LPG Carrier for Astomos Energy Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., a Group company of...

The next generation, long-distance towing vessel ALP Striker, hits the Maritime Industry.  Niigata Shipyard has launched it on behalf of ALP Maritime Services.   The...

Atlantic Container Lines announced that it has taken delivery of the Atlantic Star, the first of five new vessels in the G4 fleet.  The...

Authorities of Panama Canal have been forced to undertake special measures to reduce the long wait of ships for a transatlantic crossing.  Complications began...

Costamare Inc. is a leading owner and provider of containerships for charter with 41 years of history in the international shipping industry and a...

Koppu the typhoon blew ashore with fierce wind and Topped trees that killed one and injured 4 others in Manila. Strong winds and rain are...

Project Loon - is set to circle the planet with Internet balloons in 2016 What is Project Loon? Google’s Project Loon is a massively ambitious plan...