Following IMOs stringent rules and regulations for Mandatory Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plans ( SEEMP), Hempel introduced Hempaguard, an antifouling agent for vessel coating....

Some persons have the penchant for addressing themselves in third person.  One such is the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who is very prolific...

A record of 1356 ships have crossed the New Suez Canal within a month as a result of new, widened and renovated waterway, which...

BoB stands for ‘SEA-Mate Blending-on-Board’ and is the brainchild of Maersk Fluid Technology.  The core product is a small machine that can reduce the...

A nightmare of checking into a hotel made 18-year-old college dropout Ritesh Agarwal four years later, the CEO of Oyo rooms, a network of...

Summary of the accident: A bosun was cleansing the hatch coaming of a cargo hold, he fell from a low-rise stepping platform and died.The bosun...

Accident : Explosion.Date : 6th September 2015.Location : Shital Enterprise scrap yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh.Casualties : 8 injured.The scrap yard in Chittagong exploded due to leak in a gas cylinder.  The reports...

Vessel Name : Binh Thuan-16Incident : Ship agroundDate : Saturday, 5th September 2015Location : Phan Thiet, VietnamCasualties : No injuries or deathIt was on Saturday, 5th September 2015, when the 41m long Binh Thuan-16 a passenger...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMG1SdeYLFE&feature=youtu.be Fleetmon along with its partner Luxspace has provided an impressive video enabling us to watch the movement of the ships globally.  This view is...

The important part played by Pneumatics and control cannot be gainsaid.  Erudite readers of this note no doubt realise proper functioning pneumatic system and...

Sailors’ Society, one of the largest seafarer support charities operating worldwide, has developed a Smartphone app – Chapplaincy so as to enable the port...

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...

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...

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 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...

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

Vessel Type Container ShipLocation At SeaCasualty None/ Major Engine DamageThe Incident: The vessel was sailing in good weather.  There was a high lube oil temperature alarm during...

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...

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...