Boaters will heed the flotilla of laws and Transport Canada safety regulations that govern boating around English Bay. Recreational vessels don’t realize that...

Cruise Ship Hits a Ferry at Tilbury Docks and Ferry Service Suspended On August 4, the gigantic CMV cruise ship Magellan ploughed into the...

On August 4, a worker was rescued after he fell nearly 15 feet down a hole on a massive U.S. Navy ship on a...

Rio 2016: Economists Question Wisdom of Hosting Olympics Craig Dale | Supervising Producer "There is not going to be a torch," shouted demonstrators this week in...

The Eagle — the only tall ship on active service in the U.S. military — docked in Manhattan on Thursday to help celebrate the...

Americans have always loved their beer.  When the Pilgrims set out for the New World nearly 400 years ago, the hold of their ship,...

The Member Authorities of the Tokyo MOU with other co-operating MOUs will carry-out a concentrated inspection campaign on Cargo Securing Arrangements on the 1st...

Over three times in July, NYK hosted safety promotion conferences for shipowners and ship-management companies at the NYK head office in Tokyo and at...

CFA Helps Ambos Come to Seaman's Rescue On August 3, report of an unwell man on board a ship brought emergency services to the ship,...

A female deck officer has accused a shipping firm of sexism after being refused a job interview because she 'would be better off working...

Bulker Aground in Lake Superior Watch a video report on continuing efforts by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the World Maritime University (WMU)...

Threat Found Scrawled Inside Ship Docked at Naval Base San Diego On August 3, a brief security alert was triggered at Naval Base San Diego...

Southeast Asia Indonesia: Armed robbers steal properties from tanker at Lubuk Gaung 27 July Six assailants armed with knives boarded a berthed product tanker at 0520...

Floating Diesel Storage Becoming Viable in NWE Thanks to the combination of a wider market contango and depressed freight rates, there has been more enquiries...

New Welding Procedure Helps to Avoid Drydocking Whittaker Engineering, an independent Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) company, has developed a unique water-backed welding procedure for...

Tokyo – ClassNK has just released the latest version of its design support software PrimeShip-HULL (HCSR) Ver.3.5.0., developed in response to the IACS Common...

Swash Buckling Female Pirates? By Frederick Hedenberg I'm rarely surprised by something I had given little or no thought to.  This happened recently when a reader...

A large merchant vessel pulled up anchor at Qingyuan Port (now Ningbo City) in Zhejiang Province of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and left on...

Shipping Wakes up to the New Digital Age The analysis and collection of big data are becoming the ‘oil of 21st century’ for the maritime...

Tankers: Charterers take center stage ahead of pure ship owners, actively managing tanker fleet Lower charter rates are forcing a change regarding the commercial management...