What Could Have Caused Such A High Turbocharger Lube Oil Consumption?

Vessel Containership Machinery Turbocharger on Main Engine Damage/Problem High Lube oil Consumption Main Engine 12 L 90 GFCA Turbocharger Retrofitted from ABB to MAN Technical Background: The main engine had four turbochargers and all these...

How Did Crude Tanker Stocks Perform?

The BDTI (Baltic Dirty Tanker Index) tracks the crude tanker rates.  The index proves that crude tankers are still siling at solid rates holding...

[Watch] Video Marking The First Ship-To-Ship LNG Transfers In 1984

  This video shows the first ship-to-ship transfer of LNG in March 1984.  Abu Dhabi Gas Liquefaction Company (Adgas) conducted the trials using the...

Solar & Wind-Powered Boat To Suck Up Waste

Inventors from Sussex have developed a concept of solar and wind-powered boat, SeaVax, that can suck up plastic waste.   A proof of concept at...

MOL Appoints Representatives To Enhance Services In Each Market

Effective from 1st April 2016, MOL will appoint Chief Country Representatives to oversee the operations in Asia and Oceania. The idea of appointing country representatives...

Did A Faulty Piping Caused Bunker Fuel Spill At The Port...

California Spill: Oiled Birds Found Near L.A. Harbour Fish and wildlife officials are working to help six oiled seabirds after the car carrier spilled oil...

Cargo Ship Crew Honored For Saving A Life In Frigid Waters

A lifesaving award was presented to the crew of the cargo ship Joseph L. Block by the Coast Guard in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, Saturday. On...

31 – A Prime Age For Seafarers To Take Up Jobs...

Maritime CEO Forum in Singapore kickstarted an important debate on what every seafarer undergo in their peak of their career life.  Should seafarers ditch...

Fire On Board An Ethylene Carrier At Sinopacific Shipyard

Accident Fire Date 14th March 2016 Vessel type Ethylene Carrier(under construction) Location Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering’s Qidong Fengshun Shipyard According to the reports, an ethylene carrier which was under construction at the...

Fatigue! – The Root Cause For A Bunker Tanker To Run...

A fuel tanker ran aground in Nunavut in 2014 after its fatigued crew made a wrong turn in Chesterfield Inlet. Incident: The Bunker tanker was on...

General Slocum Sinks Killing 1,021 Souls

The General Slocum was a passenger steamboat built in Brooklyn, New York, in 1891.  The General Slocum was named for Civil War General and...

Save Upto 6% Fuel Annually – With Dynamic AC system

With the DAC - All electrically propelled vessels can save at least 6% fuel annually. ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, is launching...

Use of Torch Lights Inside a Ballast Tank Kills Three

Every shipboard activity has a high-risk factor associated with it. May it be in the engine room or in the cargo area, the risks...

OOPS! – Bunker Fuel Spilled At Los Angeles

A Pure Car Carrier(PCC) leaks oil off Los Angeles in the west coast port Yesterday at 7:25 PM. The 2007 built car carrier left a...

[Watch] Oil Leaks From A Car Carrier At Port Of LA

Incident : Oil Spill Location : Port of LA Vessel Type : Car carrier Amount of spill : Not available A cargo ship spilled oil into the sea during its refueling operations...

[Watch] Dolphin Stampede

  Whale watchers,  looking to catch a few glimpses of the animals were in for a surprise when hundreds of dolphins began racing and...

Woman Seafarers, Sexual Harassment On the High Seas

The Philippines started deploying women marine deck officers and marine engineers on international vessels in the late 1990s, sending 1,404 of them to sea...

Maritime Stocks: Upgrades & Downgrades

Navios Maritime Acquisition Co. (NYSE:NNA) - Wells Fargo  downgraded from outperform rating to an underperform rating on Friday.  They currently have $1.62 price objective...

NYK Develops Next-Generation Shipping And Logistics Solutions

NYK teams with Weathernews and Kozo Keikaku plans to develop a new company to provide market next-generation solutions in the shipping and logistics fields. Symphony...

MHI Delivers World’s First LNG Powered – Air Lubricated Ship

AIDAprima, the first new-generation cruise ship, was delivered to AIDA Cruises and set sail from the Nagasaki Shipyard heading to Hamburg, Germany.   During a...