Slump in Oil Rig-building Wipeout $24 Billion and 25,000 Jobs

Singapore’s $24 Billion Wipeout Eats Into Its Shipyard Base Slump in oil rig-building that led to the elimination of thousands of jobs. Two years...

Ship Demolition Prices Offered at Attractive Levels

Ship demolition prices offered at attractive levels, as buyers try to lure more ship owners in Prices for ships headed for demolition in the...

Engineer on Coast Guard Ship Charged with Smuggling Child Porn

Julien Pierre Marceau, 55, of Fredericton was arrested on August 16 after the CCGS Hudson returned to Dartmouth from a research trip to Bermuda. A...

Pirate Attack on Oil Tanker Repelled

Iranian Navy repels pirate attack on merchant ship On October 17, Iran’s Navy reportedly repelled pirate attacks against an Iranian oil tanker.   Reports say that...

Captain of ‘Ship of Death’ Should be Charged!

ITF Says Captain of FOC ‘Ship of Death’ Should be Charged The International Transport Workers’ Federation has called for the Coroner to recommend charging the...

Hazards Associated with the Transport of Lithium-ion Batteries

Web Alert: Hazards associated with the transport of lithium-ion batteries Lithium-ion batteries and fires Following recent media attention surrounding the incidents of self–ignition of lithium-ion batteries...

Haunted House moves into Alameda’s Historic USS Hornet

BY ADAM BRINKLOW The World War II-era aircraft carrier floating off of Alameda (which served in such diverse engagements as the Vietnam war and the...

[Watch] How Choppy Seas Proved a Problem for This Ship

The vehicles carrier was videoed struggling to leave the mouth of the river between Tynemouth and South Shields on Saturday. This video shows just...

Top 10 Stricken Ships that Ran Aground

Top 10 stricken ships that ran aground on the North East coast The North Sea has long proved dangerous for seamen. Between 1740 and 2000, the...

Preventive Maintenance Achieves 202% Return on Investment for Turbochargers

Independent study demonstrates that ABB’s Preventive Maintenance model for turbochargers achieves significant cost and operational benefits ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has...

Selektope® Shortlisted for Two More 2016 Environmental Awards

Selektope®, the innovative ingredient used in marine antifouling coatings whose prevention of barnacle growth on ship hulls yields fuel savings, has been shortlisted for...

Intellian Technologies Announces Initial Public Offering

Intellian Technologies, Inc. (“Intellian” or “the company”), announced an initial public offering of 1,450,000 common shares via the KOSDAQ, at an initial price of...

Barnacle Busting: Research Targets Ship Biofouling

Individually, tiny barnacles pose little threat to hulking U.S. Navy ships.  But when clustered in thick clumps on a vessel's hull, this is natural...

Cargo Insurers “Break Limits” in Unprecedented Judgment

Cargo Insurers “break limits” in unprecedented judgment, October 2016 Following the fire and sinking of the bulk carrier ATLANTIK CONFIDENCE off the coast of Oman...

Coral Bleaching Not a Hindrance to Underwater Sex Show

Great Barrier Reef: Coral bleaching not a hindrance to underwater sex show Coral bleaching is deemed not be a hindrance for the greatest underwater sex...

Lifeboat Crew Saved the Lives of Two Men in the Firth...

Kinghorn RNLI lifeboat crew saved the lives of two men in the Firth of Forth on Sunday afternoon, after their dinghy capsized off Portobello. The...

[Watch] Crew Saved the Lives of Two Men

Kinghorn lifeboat crew rushed to save two men whose dinghy capsized off Portobello on Sunday. The dramatic rescue came after the vessel’s mast collapsed, causing...

Ceremony to Mark Start of Attenborough Polar Ship Construction

Construction of the UK's new £200m polar research ship, the RRS Sir David Attenborough, formally begins on Monday at Cammell Laird on Merseyside. A ceremony...

[Watch] Work Begins on £200m Attenborough Polar Ship

The construction of the UK's £200m polar research ship, the RRS Sir David Attenborough, has formally begun at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead. The...

Unmanned Warrior Exercise Off the Coast of Scotland

US, UK do ‘Ground-breaking’ Drone Exercise Off Scotland The multinational Unmanned Warrior exercise off the coast of Scotland is doing “really groundbreaking” work on naval...