Subway Will Ensure ‘Footlong’ Sandwich

New Measures Guarantee A Foot Long Subway SandwichIn the year 2013, Australian Matt Corby posted a picture in facebook showing a subway sandwich with...

[Ceremony] Watch The Ribbon-Cutting At Water Depths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0_MmEO7o4&feature=youtu.be The world’s first subsea gas compression system went on stream on September 17, 2015.  The Aker solutions-built Subsea gas compression system was opened officially...

Father Saved Two; Mother Succumbs to Fire with Three Kids

The fire gutted three brick buildings built in 1840. Chris Hargis and Lori Doppelheuer escaped a fire consuming their old row house.  But both...

UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport 2015

The maritime transport growth of 3.5% during the past 12 months till January 1, 2015, is the lowest in over a decade.  At the...

Wet And Dry Market Make Assessment Difficult

The shipping data is available in many different ways these days. But, the actual “operational fleet” statistics at any given time still eludes accurate...

Alfa Laval’s Economiser Unit For EGR System- A Great Fuel Saver

Alfa Laval is a leading global provider of specialized products and engineering solutions based on its key technologies of heat transfer, separation and fluid...

Moin Enhances Export Capabilities of Costa Rica

APM Terminals Moin will bring in facilities to serve the larger vessels entering the Latin American trades.  It is to enable the Costa Rica’s...

Exotic Super Metal Alloy used in Tru-Marine’s 3D-Printed Nozzle Ring

Turbochargers are used to supercharge and thus improve the efficiency of an engine. The marine turbochargers are designed to supply the large mass of...

Counterfeit Refrigerant Cylinders – An Industry Menace

Wilhelmsen Maritime Services issued a warning regarding the dangers posed by some of the counterfeit refrigerant cylinders readily available in the market. The counterfeits...

More Bunker Tankers Fitted with Mass Flow Meters – MPA

MASS FLOW METER (MFM) technology has been around since the 1950s and has been in use in various industries.  From 2007, news of the...

Brave Police Officer Dies in a Gunfire

Randolph Holder was killed in a confrontation with an armed suspect in East Harlem on Tuesday.Officers responded to a report of gunshots fired near...

Indonesia Experiences Country’s Biggest Forest Fire

Highlights:The extremely dry weather prevailing in Indonesia caused the forest fires. The forest fire that occurred in Sumatra Island and Borneo Island in the...

Want To Test Your Hearing Ability? Check This

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0_MmEO7o4&feature=youtu.be We may not hear certain frequencies clearly.  The reasons for this may be age or frequent listening to louder music.  The below video helps...

Berglund Turns Pacific Basin Profitable

Mats Berglund, a Swedish national, took over Pacific Basin three years ago when it was in its 30-year lows in the “lousy” markets.  It...

Doosan Engine: The World’s First Eco-friendly NOx Reduction System

From Jan. 1, 2016 all newbuilds with diesel engines have to comply with IMO’s Tier III emission for sailing in North American Emission Control...

[Watch] How Huge Steel Container Boxes are Manufactured

Watch the above video that shows how huge steel container boxes are manufactured. This video is shot at the Big Steel Box Factory, Shanghai,...

Nigerian Navy Seizes Five Vessels Due to Illegal Bunkering

Following an intelligence report, the Nigerian Navy impounded five vessels and 108,000 litres of diesel fuel.  The report states that the operators of the...

Oil Spill Removal Underway After Tankers Collide Off Japanese Coast

Accident : CollisionVessels Involved : Wako Maru No 2 and Sulphur GarlandLocation : 10 nautical miles off Shimonoseki, JapanCasualties : NonePollution : 13000 litres oil spillThe two tankers (Wako...

Tankers – A New Diesel Fuel Storage Option

Traders report that Vitol – The oil giant has booked two 90,000 tonne tankers off the coast of Britain to stock diesel volumes for...

Iran Plans To Expand Its Fleet

Mohammad Saeidi, the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL), says that Iran will go for a fleet expansion campaign in...