Similar to container vessels, bulk carriers and cruise ships, car carriers are rapidly growing in size.  A new series of the world’s largest pure...

By JIM COLLINS DHT Holdings (DHT) is a pure play on oil tanker shipping with a particular focus on the largest carriers -- Very Large Crude...

Marine fuel costs represent a major portion of vessel operating costs.  Escalating marine fuel oil prices and strict environmental norms has lead to the...

Today in History: January 18 The cruise ship Costa Concordia capsized after being holed by a rock off the coast of Italy in 2012. The...

Watch a video posted by Christopher Feuerer, shows the Costa neoRomantica being caught in some strong winds.   As a result, the aft of the vessel...

A Chinese court has sold a seized foreign ship in an online auction for whopping $ 2.41 million through e-commerce giant Alibaba. What happened? The Shanghai...

No charges will be filed for safety failures that caused a cargo ship’s elevator to crush to death a Filipino seaman at a British...

A man who reportedly disappeared from a hulking coal ship off the Queensland coast, and is presumed dead, may have vanished after drinking "a...

A new footage of a Costa cruise ship posted online shows how extremely close it came to breaking free from its mooring ropes. What happened? The...

Authorities have seized 186kg of cocaine, worth $60 million, from a former Japanese whaling ship off the coast of Tasmania. What happened? According to reports, the...

DNV GL has observed an increasing trend in reported incidents involving aft propeller shaft bearing damages.  Most of the damages reportedly have developed within...

On Wednesday, it was reported that a man fell from a cargo hold on a ship docked in Oregon. What happened? The man is reported to...

Calling all seafarers! On 18 January important new rules come into force on abandonment. Here’s what you need to know: Under the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 (MLC)...

Seafarers and their families now ensured of protection in cases of abandonment, death, and long-term disability The first amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006...

China has enforced the use of fuel with a maximum sulphur content of 0.5% on ships berthing at six more key ports starting 2017,...

By Gavin Haines It's one of the mysteries of flying that many passengers have pondered, but seldom bothered to solve: why do flight attendants dim...

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has signed a three-year MacGregor Onboard Care (MOC) service agreement with the German shipping company, Peter Döhle Schiffahrts Group, for...

Global miner Rio Tinto could be in a position to reward shareholders with a strong dividend hike or even a share buyback next year...

2017 Will be a Healthy Year for the Bunker Industry: Muhtaroglu After a number of difficult years, 2017 will be healthy year for bunker industry,...

The container ship charter business is reeling from a series of debilitating blows — chronic overcapacity, a wider Panama Canal, Hanjin Shipping’s collapse and...