Ten Killed As Fishing Boat Capsizes Off Korea

Accident: Capsize. Date: 5th September 2015. Vessel Involved: Dolphin, a fishing boat. Location: Island of Chuja, Korea. Casualties: 10 dead. A 9.77-tonne fishing boat Dolphin, carrying 21 passengers went...

Maersk Ranks 38th In Fortune’s First ‘Change The World’ List

Recently world’s most well-known brands such as the Google, Walmart, IKEA, IBM joined the top and leading “Change the world” list recognised by Fortune...

Solar Battery Systems For Polar Cruise Ship

Naval architects have designed a luxury expedition cruise ship possessing a range of energy saving and emissions reductions technologies.  The vessel can undertake unrestricted...

Gazprom Signs Two Important Deals    

Gazprom is the only producer and exporter of LNG in Russia and pioneer among Russia’s largest oil producers. Gazprom announced on September 4th, 2015, about...

Windows Hello Offers 100% User Security

Microsoft’s operating system Windows is very popular among computer users. After Windows 8, Microsoft launched Windows 10 a little over a month ago skipping...

A Camera To Reduce Ship’s Crew Working Hours

A high-tech camera has been developed by Japan’s NYK Line and Monohakobi Technology Institute - that can “automatically photograph” the inside of a...

Contaminated Lube Oil Caused Engine Damage

Vessel Type Container Ship Location At Sea Casualty None/ Major Engine Damage The Incident: The vessel was sailing in good weather.  There was a high lube oil temperature alarm during...

Wärtsilä to Retrofit BWMS for Entire Fleet.  

Wärtsilä provides complete lifecycle power solutions for the marine and energy markets.  Recently, they have won a contract with German-based M/s. Bernhard Schulte GmbH...

Underwater Drones to Safeguard Coral Reefs

Australia’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has come up with a world’s first autonomous robot, COTSBot that can seek and kill the crown-of-thorns starfish...

Appointment of Maritime Safety Division Director

Captain Ashok Mahapatra has taken the charge of new IMO Director, Maritime Safety Division.  He would be taking his position on 1st October 2015....

[Watch] How to Construct a Ship in 6 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMG1SdeYLFE&feature=youtu.be MK time-lapse from Hamburg, Germany have used their famed proprietary time-lapse cameras that can capture one 16mp frame every minute.  This camera was used...

Mississippi River: Towboats Collision Leads to Oil Spill

Accident : Collision. Date : 2nd September at 20:22 hours. Location : Mile marker 937, Mississippi River near Paducah, Kentucky. Oil Spillage : 250000 gallons of spilled into the river. Casualties : None. On Wednesday,...

Singtel Launches All-In-One Smartbox Mobile App

Event : Launch of Mobile App. Date : 27th August 2015. Place : The Grand Park Orchard in Singapore. Chief Guest : Head of Singtel satellite Group, Mr. Lim Kian Soon. A...

Chinese Registered Vessel Sinks

Accident : Capsize Date : September 3rd, 2015 Vessel involved : MV. Zhe Pu 01833 Location : China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan Port Casualties : None The vessel reportedly lost engine power when it sailed close to China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan port.  The failed...

Private Cruise Terminal in the Port Of Barcelona

Carnival Corporation has signed a €30million deal to build and operate its second private cruise terminal in the Port of Barcelona, one of the...

Do Real Women Visit Ashley Madison, The Infidelity Site?

Ashley Madison is an infidelity dating website which has around 36 million members of whom hardly 12,000 are women reveals an article by Gizmodo,...

Funniest Mobile Phone Joke In Edinburgh Fringe

The following pun by comedian Darren Walsh has won the prize for funniest joke of the Edinburgh Fringe: "I just deleted all the German names...

Stateless Ship Up For Auction

The Libyan government has put up the oil tanker M/T Morning Glory on auction.  Earlier, the vessel that was transporting crude oil from Es...

World’s 2nd LNG-Powered Containership Launched

Perla del Caribe, a 764-foot long container ship is known to be the world’s largest dry cargo ship of its kind, to be powered...

Indonesian Port To Be Built By Rotterdam

The Port of Rotterdam Authority has signed an agreement with the Indonesian Port Corporation for the construction of the new deep sea port Kuala...