Wärtsilä’s Unprecedented Partnership with Carnival Corporation

Wärtsilä’s Unprecedented Partnership with Carnival Corporation: The Deal That Has Only Winners Mr Tomas Hakala, Vice President, Services, Wärtsilä 79 ships, over 400 engines and one...

Crew Found Hanging Aboard a Cruise Ship

On Thursday, a young crew member had reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself in his cabin aboard a cruise ship when it was docked. What...

Provisions Store Catches Fire Aboard a LPG Carrier

An LPG carrier reportedly caught fire while it was on its way to Russia. What happened? The LPG carrier named ‘Navigator Leo’ caught fire in the...

ClassNK Issues Type Certification for LED Floodlights

ClassNK issues Type Certification for LED floodlights for Port Facility-use to Stanley Electric Leading classification society ClassNK has issued the first Type Certification for LED...

ABS Introduces Smarter Lashing for Containerships

ABS, a leading provider of classification and technical services to the marine and offshore industries, is providing resources that could dramatically improve safety on...

Reject EU Emissions Trading System says ICS

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) – which represents over 80% of the world merchant fleet – says it is ‘disappointed but not surprised’...

300kg Waste Cleared from 56-year-old Shipwreck

Teams of scuba divers on Sunday joined a Sharjah Aquarium initiative to remove waste from a large shipwreck that has become an important marine...

Long-term Freight Slump Taking Toll

Thousands of containers were left stranded in late August, including many carrying grain, when Korea’s Hanjin Shipping declared bankruptcy.  As supply chains unraveled and...

Countdown to the Next Dilution

By Short Only Summary DryShips' 4th quarter was bad, but there were no surprises. The company's future plans are problematic because it will be in another...

Collapsing Orders for New Ships Set to Hasten Market Rebalancing

Investors’ confidence in market prospects dramatically weakened last year, resulting in orders for new ships in the main sectors completely collapsing.  Fading optimism about...

Improving Demand to Ease Oversupply in Dry Bulk Shipping

With contraction in vessel supply and healthy demand growth, the dry bulk shipping market is expected to recover from 2017 onwards, according to the...

World’s Great Bucket List Cargo Ship Travel Experience Extended

Bucket list experience lives on as ship to remote St Helena gets a 1yr reprieve - but you'll need 3 weeks One of the world's...

[Watch] Overseas Experts Fly in to Fight Ship Blaze

Specialist hazardous cargo fire experts have been flown in from London and Austria to assist with extinguishing the fire aboard a container ship docked...

Ship CO2 Emissions Check with Emissions Trading System

MEPs backed reforms of the EU emissions trading system (ETS) that will, for the first time anywhere, regulate international ship CO2 emissions as well...

Does Your Ship Store Lubricants in the Steering Gear Room?

We have seen this for decades now where steering gear room has been a sweet spot to store lubricants.  There are two important points...

Life Jacket Inspection Fails! 2,000 Royal Caribbean Passengers Stranded

Over 2,000 passengers who thought they'd be sailing to the Bahamas this week were unexpectedly delayed at the port after a Royal Caribbean cruise...

Viswa Lab’s VEEMS Certified by VERIFAVIA

Viswa Energy Efficiency Management System (VEEMS) hardware and software package has been approved by the independent MRV accrediting agency Verifavia, to meet the requirements...

Cargo Ship with 23 Crew Catches Fire

A cargo ship with 23 Chinese members on board reportedly caught fire in Vietnam. What happened? A cargo ship whose nationality is Panama caught fire while...

Gastro Breaks Out Again on Sun Princess Cruise Ship

Gastro breaks out again on Sun Princess cruise ship docked in Brisbane About 140 passengers on the Sun Princess cruise ship have come down with...

Ship Whale Collisions Under UN Watch

UN addresses issue of whale-ship collisions Scientists and government officials met at the United Nations yesterday to consider possible solutions to a global problem: how to...