Olivier van der Kruijs shares his experiences from the audits on more than one hundred container vessels last year. The modern container ships are designed...

Energy sector had a thrashing of an 11-year low  which has sent many energy stocks, including shuttle tanker MLP KNOT Offshore Partners (NYSE:KNOP), falling...

A Wellard-owned ship, the Ocean Outback, carrying thousands of cattle and sheep, spent the past two nights anchored off Fremantle because of mechanical problems...

Injured Crew Member Gets Immediate Medical Aid On Monday , the bulk carrier made an unplanned stop in Bermuda for medical assistance for a crew...

Vessel Grounding Off Papua Guinea Ends In Oil Spillage Incident : Vessel Grounding Vessel type : Passenger/Cargo Vessel Location : Near the Talele Island nature reserve in Papua New Guinea Casualties/Pollution :...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Watch the Port Canaveral was jammed with both spectators and cruise ship passengers as, for the first time ever, six cruise ships tied up...

The global shipping market has been fairly icy in 2015.  However the investors managed to overcome the chillness.  Let us see how hot has...

2015 will go down as the toughest year in  the maritime industry of Nigeria. At the beginning of the year 2015, operators in the industry...

Shell’s fleet of barges, to be built by Netherlands shipbuilder VEKA at a Polish yard, will have six-cylinder 20DF dual-fuel main engines from Wärtsilä...

Hiryū was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).  It was the only one ship of her class, a modified Soryu...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The vessel started consuming new bunkers after exhausting the older ones.  After putting the bunkers in use, the vessel reported heavy sludge formation in...

Stigma has been a seemingly uphill battle for all who have experienced a mental health condition or who have known someone facing these challenges....

A recent outbreak of 60 cases of gastroenteritis aboard vessel has put the holiday makers in difficult times.  Some of them have started looking...