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...
Ship’s Engineer Suffered A Stroke!
A Seafarer was evacuated from the vessel offshore of Mouille Point, Cape Town on Sunday.
A sea rescue craft, Spirit of Vodacom, was launched by...
This is How a Ship Can Explode – Do it the...
The Viking, a ship sought after for illegal fishing, was exploded by the Indonesian government on March 14.
The Indonesian government exploded and scuttled a...
USS Lexington (CV-2) Sinks Killing 216 Crewmen
USS Lexington (CV-2), nicknamed "Lady Lex", was a Lexington-class early aircraft carrier built in the 1920s. She was the lead ship among two of her...
[Watch] A Drone Delivers A Parcel To A Tanker
Watch the first delivery of a "LE 4-8X Dual" drone. The drone was developed by the French start-up Xamen Technologies. This is the...
New Guidelines For Ro Ro Fire Safety
Trade association interferry have issued practical guidance for fire safety on decks of ro-ro vessels, due to series of major accidents. Measures to enhance...
World’s First Floating LNG Facility Ready
World’s First Floating LNG Facility- Completed
Daewoo ship building & Marine Engineering company has concluded the construction of the World’s first floating liquefied natural gas...
Fire In Bulk Carrier, Off Italy
Reports say that fire erupted in one of the holds of a bulk carrier during cargo handling operations at Port of Brindisi, Italy. On...
[Watch] Google’s Self-Driving Car Crashes
On February 14 a Google-owned 2012 Lexus RX450h hit the side of a bus, under what Google terms it as "tricky" traffic conditions....
A Person Crushed And Killed By Shipping Container
A person died after being crushed by a container near the Port of Tauranga at Mount Maunganui.
After midday, a sudden crash between a container...