Female Crew Member of a Cruise Ship Goes Missing

A female crew member of a cruise ship has reportedly gone missing when the ship reached its final destination. What happened? A Mexican national identified as...

ABB at Hannover Messe 2017: Showcasing Customer Value in the Digital...

ABB’s technology innovations help customers seize the opportunities of the Energy and Fourth Industrial Revolutions. ABB will present its industry-leading portfolio of digital solutions, ABB...

Inaccurate Test Certificates for Nickel Ore Pose Serious Risk

Nickel ore is listed in the IMSBC Code as a Group A cargo that may liquefy and shippers must, in accordance with Section 4...

Thoresen Sells Older Vessels for Scrap

Thoresen Thai Agencies Public Company Limited (“TTA”) hereby reports the sale of M.V. Thor Harmony on behalf of Thoresen Shipping Singapore Pte. Ltd., a...

Gas Entec Plans LNG Fueled (and Cooled) Reefer

Busan, Korea, headquartered Gas Entec Co., Ltd. is planning to build the world's first LNG-fueled reefer carrier. It will use the cryogenic properties of...

EIB: 150 Million Euros to Finance Green Shipping

The European Investment Bank and Dutch bank ABN Amro will sign an agreement to support investments for greening the European shipping fleet. This framework...

Global $288.30 Billion Bunker Fuel Market, 2015-2020

Global $288.30 Billion Bunker Fuel Market, 2015-2020: IFO 380 is Further Anticipated to Continue to Dominate the Market Research and Markets has announced the addition...

Bulk Carrier Explosion Off Cape Cod: 1 Dead, 3 Seriously Burned

One crew member was killed and three others suffered massive burns in an explosion Monday aboard a 623-foot international coal ship bound for Portugal...

[Watch] First Footage of ‘Flying Car’

The Kitty Hawk Flyer is a new, all-electric aircraft. It is safe, tested and legal to operate in the United States in uncongested areas...

Panama Canal to Enforce New Clean Fuel Regulations for Freighters

The Panama Canal Authority has issued a Notice to Shipping that any freight or passenger vessel intending to transit the canal must switch from...

90 Years for Damen

Damen is celebrating nine decades of operations in the shipbuilding industry. From small beginnings in the 1920s, the company has grown into a renowned...

Google Larry Page’s ‘Flying Car’

Kitty Hawk, one of the two "flying car" companies being backed by Google founder Larry Page, has published the first video of its prototype...

Emission Monitors For MRV ‘Do Not Exist’

Technology does not yet exist to implement the European Commission’s preferred method of measuring the mass of CO2 emitted by ships, as required by...

Pirates Shoot Chemical Tanker

A crew member of a tanker was injured during a pirate attack 10 miles off the coast of Somalia on Saturday, adding to fears...

Ineffective Radio Watch & Communication Leads To Collision

Summary On 23 December 2015, the bulk carriers Shibumi and Sam Wolf collided in the Eastbound Deep Water Route of Singapore Straits TSS. At the...

Cargo Ship Ran Aground Off Porto Nogaro

On Monday, a general cargo ship with steel tonnage reportedly ran aground after it got stuck on a sandbank in a waterway. What happened? The general...

Maritime London Appoints New Chief Executive

UK maritime services’ promotional body Maritime London has appointed Jos Standerwick, current director of development and external affairs at The Mission to Seafarers, as...

$40 Million Fine for ‘Magic Pipe’ Use & Falsification of Records

A Cruise Line has reportedly been fined US$40 million penalty due to illegal use of magic pipe for oily waste discharge. What happened? Princess Cruise Lines...

Bunker Claims Accounted for 57% of Singapore Arbitrations in 2016

The Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration (SCMA) says 57 percent of arbitrations last year involved bunker claims, reports. SCMA notes that the number of arbitrations...

New Alliances Bring Bigger Ships and More Capacity to Box Rrades

According to new research reports, the launch of the new vessel-sharing alliances has increased capacity on the Asia-Europe, transpacific and transatlantic trades by 5%,...