Wet And Dry Market Make Assessment Difficult

The shipping data is available in many different ways these days. But, the actual “operational fleet” statistics at any given time still eludes accurate...

Alfa Laval’s Economiser Unit For EGR System- A Great Fuel Saver

Alfa Laval is a leading global provider of specialized products and engineering solutions based on its key technologies of heat transfer, separation and fluid...

Moin Enhances Export Capabilities of Costa Rica

APM Terminals Moin will bring in facilities to serve the larger vessels entering the Latin American trades.  It is to enable the Costa Rica’s...

Exotic Super Metal Alloy used in Tru-Marine’s 3D-Printed Nozzle Ring

Turbochargers are used to supercharge and thus improve the efficiency of an engine. The marine turbochargers are designed to supply the large mass of...

Counterfeit Refrigerant Cylinders – An Industry Menace

Wilhelmsen Maritime Services issued a warning regarding the dangers posed by some of the counterfeit refrigerant cylinders readily available in the market. The counterfeits...

More Bunker Tankers Fitted with Mass Flow Meters – MPA

MASS FLOW METER (MFM) technology has been around since the 1950s and has been in use in various industries.  From 2007, news of the...

Brave Police Officer Dies in a Gunfire

Randolph Holder was killed in a confrontation with an armed suspect in East Harlem on Tuesday. Officers responded to a report of gunshots fired near...

Indonesia Experiences Country’s Biggest Forest Fire

Highlights: The extremely dry weather prevailing in Indonesia caused the forest fires. The forest fire that occurred in Sumatra Island and Borneo Island in the...

Want To Test Your Hearing Ability? Check This

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0_MmEO7o4&feature=youtu.be We may not hear certain frequencies clearly.  The reasons for this may be age or frequent listening to louder music.  The below video helps...

Berglund Turns Pacific Basin Profitable

Mats Berglund, a Swedish national, took over Pacific Basin three years ago when it was in its 30-year lows in the “lousy” markets.  It...

Doosan Engine: The World’s First Eco-friendly NOx Reduction System

From Jan. 1, 2016 all newbuilds with diesel engines have to comply with IMO’s Tier III emission for sailing in North American Emission Control...

[Watch] How Huge Steel Container Boxes are Manufactured

Watch the above video that shows how huge steel container boxes are manufactured. This video is shot at the Big Steel Box Factory, Shanghai,...

Nigerian Navy Seizes Five Vessels Due to Illegal Bunkering

Following an intelligence report, the Nigerian Navy impounded five vessels and 108,000 litres of diesel fuel.  The report states that the operators of the...

Oil Spill Removal Underway After Tankers Collide Off Japanese Coast

Accident : Collision Vessels Involved : Wako Maru No 2 and Sulphur Garland Location : 10 nautical miles off Shimonoseki, Japan Casualties : None Pollution : 13000 litres oil spill The two tankers (Wako...

Tankers – A New Diesel Fuel Storage Option

Traders report that Vitol – The oil giant has booked two 90,000 tonne tankers off the coast of Britain to stock diesel volumes for...

Iran Plans To Expand Its Fleet

Mohammad Saeidi, the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL), says that Iran will go for a fleet expansion campaign in...

ULCS Al Muraykh Reaches Zeebrugge in Its Maiden Voyage

The United Arab Shipping Company is currently the world’s 15th-largest shipping line, with a fleet of 56 vessels representing an overall capacity of 482,617...

Toxic Pesticides Sprayed on Edibles Onboard Vessels

Fumigation of cargo, especially edible cargo with pesticides such as with methyl bromide could have disastrous health repercussions warns the West of England P&I...

Exxon Exonerated From Additional Damages

The tanker Exxon Valdez, spilled 260,000 barrels of crude in Prince William Sound in 1989 which was the largest in U.S. waters and one...

The US to Clean Up the Spanish Accidental Debris

US promises to clean up Spanish nuke accident after several decades. The U.S. and Spain have decided to remediate the coastal region of Spain.  The...