Top 5 Deficiency Areas in 2015 – USCG Update

Every year there would be various interesting statistics presented by different organizations based on their research.  One such interesting statistics is about the number...

[Watch] Tug Colliding With Passenger Vessel In Argentina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be A passenger has captured a video where a tug collides with a passenger vessel at the port of Mar del Plata in Argentina  Ten...

Green Awarded Vessels Rewarded

Special Reward For Vessels With Green Award Certification DYNAMARINe will provide a 5% discount on its services to Green Award certified ships starting from the...

JK Rowling Acquires A Luxury Yacht

The Harry Potter Author has paid a whopping sum of £22million to Hollywood star Johnny Depp for buying his luxury yacht. Depp named it Vajoliroja...

1800s Whaling Ships Found in the Arctic

NOAA archaeologists say they've located a 144-year-old Arctic shipwreck, and climate change may have been the unlikely hero in making this discovery possible. A total...

Cargo Ship Collides With Transporter Bridge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Accident : Collision Vessel type : General Cargo Ship Location : Eider river in Kiel Canal Casualties/Pollution : Nil A cargo ship collided with the transporter bridge at Eider river in Kiel...

California Declares Emergency Over Its Ongoing Methane Leak

The colossal leak near the Los Angeles suburb of Porter Ranch has released tens of thousands of kilograms of methane gas. In late October, Natural...

Woman Gang Raped in New York

On thursday after 9 p.m. five men at a Brooklyn playground  took turns raping the 18-year-old woman at the playground operated by the New...

Cargo Ship Ran Aground Off Japanese Coast

Accident : Vessel grounding Date : 10th January 2016 Vessel type : Cargo ship Crew on board : 18 Location : Off the coast of Yamagata prefecture in northeast Japan Casualties : None Pollution : Not reported A...

Making Of Ships At Readhead’s 

Amateur historian and website guru - John Bage talks about the days of the area’s great shipbuilders and in particular the life of Readhead’s...

[Watch] Description Of The Container Weighing Rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Managing Director of Strainstall Simon Everett answers key questions on the rule and covers everything the industry needs to know, as the container weighing...

New Senior VP, Service Division For Alfa Laval Inc.

Alfa Laval Inc. has appointed Ross Glendinning as the new Senior Vice President, Service division. Glendinning is charged with driving consistent profitable growth, and...

Miraculous Rescue From a Horrific Six-Car Accident

On Thursday morning the FDNY performed a miraculous rescue from a six-car accident looked destined to end in death on the westbound Gowanus Expressway,...

Can A Bridge Design Ensure Safety At Sea?

Project  CASCADe: New bridge designs to ensure safety at sea European research project called Cooperative and Adaptive Ship-based Context Aware Design (CASCADe) has developed new...

Japanese Shipping Giants Vision For 2016

Ultimate Goal Is To Win Customers’ Trust   President and CEO of K Line, Eizo Murakami Said: I extend to you my sincerest wishes for a...

SS Camorta Sinks Off Rangoon: 739 Died

SS Camorta was a passenger/cargo steamship built at A. & J. Inglis in 1880 and owned by the British India Steam Navigation Company. She sank...

All Set For Ship-To-Ship LNG Transfer

Ship-To-Ship Transfer Of LNG In Scapa Flow The leading global STS service provider, Fendercare Marine, will conduct the ship-to-ship transfer of LNG between two vessels while...

Workers Strike Stops Rotterdam’s Port for 24 Hours

Rotterdam’s dockworkers walk off the job for 24 hours to protest possible job losses at the port’s new highly automated terminal. Highlights : The unions want...

Bulker Fumigated At Sea

Insect larvae found onboard a bulk vessel, docked at Timaru, prompted the fumigation of the ship at sea. Highlights of the News : The ship was...

Cargo Ship Seized With 13 Tons of POT For Europe

Late on Tuesday, Turkish security forces seized a vessel in international waters and recovered 13 tons of illicit drugs from it. Highlights : Security forces captured...