[Watch] Listed Vessel Drifting In The Bay Of Biscay
A cargo vessel, loaded with 3600 tons of timber and construction machinery, started listing some 148 miles off Cape Ortegal, Galicia, in the...
Sudden Release of Stored Pressure Energy – Crewman Lost An Eye
Safety plays the most important role in all our activities. Carelessness or poor risk awareness can be very dangerous. The following incident teaches us...
Oil Cargo Hose Snapped Spilling Palm Oil into a River
A moving tanker’s anchor entangled with a berthed vessel mooring ropes which ripped apart the pipes causing the oil leak into the river at...
Baltic Dry Index – How Low Can It Go & How...
How Low? :
The Baltic Dry Index ended Friday 29 January at 317, which is never been seen before level.
Recent deals suggest that shipowners are...
The Defiance: A Sailing Ship Frozen In Time
Lake Huron is host to hundreds of sunken vessels, some of them quite historic. The wrecks in these waters are extremely well preserved due...
A Ferry Collided With a Cargo Ship Off Livorno
Accident type
: Collision
Vessels involved
: A passenger ferry and a cargo ship.
Reason identified
: Bad weather and strong wind
Location
: Livorno outer anchorage in Italy
A passenger ferry...
‘Half-Baked’ Container Ships Find Work In Wind Power Sector
Siemens’ Wind Power & Renewables Division will save 20% in transportation costs by using two uncompleted container ships to serve as specialized carriers of...
[Update] Modern Express -May Hit Coast By Tuesday
A specialised team along with a Spanish tug tried to tow the cargo ship near Gironde coast, but was unsuccessful because of bad weather...
81 Year Old Captain Convicted in 81,000 dwt Tanker Prestige Case
Spain’s Supreme Court has issued verdict of two-years jail for the Master of the tanker which sank off Spain’s northwestern coast in 2002.
According to...
Legendary Principal Dies Saving Children
Indianapolis’s Amy Beverland Elementary school principal died in a road accident.
Susan Jordan principal of Indianapolis’s Amy Beverland Elementary was a legendary women who always...
‘Superman’ Saves Distress Woman In Gloucestershire
A man in Superman attire saved a woman from being robbed.
Fundraiser Antonio Cortes, 32, wore the superhero outfit as a part of his job...
[Watch] Fisherman Being Medevaced By The Coast Guards
A 43-year-old fisherman faced breathing problems and numbness of his extremities while fishing 75 miles southeast of Cape May. Watchstanders in Philadelphia received the...
BG All Set To Merge With Shell
On Thursday, majority of BG Group shareholders approved Royal Dutch Shell's $52 billion (36 billion pounds) takeover.
The merger will take place on 15th February...
Technology Hinders At Sea warns P&I Club
North P&I Club has issued warnings that:
The technologies we use at sea such as video calls, emails, mobile devices are more of a hinderance...
Concerns Raised For Oil Transfer In Moray Firth
Campaigners are worried that the ship-to-ship transfers might pose a threat to the marine animals including the dolphin population in Moray Firth. They are...
A new ship to ship LNG bunkering vessel design
Using its in house expertise and floating storage and regasification units (FSRU) design Sener has developed a new ship to ship (STS) liquefied natural...
Tall Ships Pull into Port
The Official ship of Washington State - Lady Washington and her companion ship - Hawaiian Chieftain have returned to Ventura County and are now...
Dense Fog Closed Port Tampa Bay For a Day
Dense fog limited visibility for ship traffic at Port Tampa Bay.
Several ships including a cruise ship and ten cargo ships were delayed due to...
Bunkering Vessels Spill Oil
A general cargo vessel leaked oil during bunkering operations in Elevsis on 26th January 2016. The leak occurred when a tanker vessel was transferring...
15 Seafarers Rescued From Drifting Vessel In North Sea
The reports says that SeaWorker vessel, which is used for installation of offshore wind turbines, began to drift uncontrollably after it broke from its...
