[Watch] A Car Falls Off Ferry and Drifts Out to Sea

A group of tourists watched in horror as one of their SUVs rolled off a barge on Australia’s eastern coast and plunged into the...

Woman Found Dead! Fall in Engine Room Shaft Suspected

Body of Woman Who Vanished Aboard Cruise Ship Found After 2 Months The body of a woman who went missing on a cruise two months...

How Secrets of a Pearl Harbor Shipwreck were Discovered After 75...

The U.S.S. Arizona was among the four U.S. Navy battleships sunk during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese warplanes on December 7,...

Top 10 Countries MFAME Readers are from in 2016

MFAME has readership from over 200 countries around the globe among them here are the Top 10 Countries who topped the list in 2016...

Review of the Year 2016: Brexit Means Brexit

“To be or not to be in Europe”.  This is the question David Cameron promised to ask the British people during his electoral campaign...

Shippers Doubtful to Benefit from Industry Transformation

There is little question that 2016 will go down as the most transformational year in container shipping since the Ideal X sailed out of...

Vessel Scrapping: Record Year for Container Ships in 2016

The ship breaking industry is set to end 2016 on a positive note, having experienced a record high volume of box ship scrapping. Mainly due...

3 Vessels from Norway Seized

A Norwegian ship lessor has been caught in the debt web of Swiber Holdings, with three of its vessels in Singapore arrested by a...

Fire on a Boat Claims 23 Lives and Injures Many

On January 1, 23 people were killed and dozens injured on Sunday after a fire ripped through a boat carrying nearly 250 people to...

Skangas Make First Small Scale LNG Reload at Klaipeda

Skangas signed an agreement with Statoil, the Norwegian oil and gas company, for a small-scale LNG reload to take place at the Klaipeda LNG...

Plane Accidentally Drops Anti-ship Missiles

Anti-ship missiles accidentally dropped into Sea A South Korean military plane has accidentally dropped anti-ship missiles into the Sea of Japan (or the East...

Video Based Case Study on VLCC Collision & Propeller Fouling

VLCC Collision & Propeller Fouling Learn from others’ accidents.  Watch an accurate reenactment of a collision involving an undisclosed VLCC tanker. Disclaimer: This video is intended...

[Watch] Virtual Reality Training for Offshore Blade Installation

The installation of todays giant wind turbines at sea is not an easy task and demands highly skilled technicians.  Now our people train the...

Top New Year’s Shots from Around the World

Fireworks explode over the Arc de Triomphe monument as part of New Year celebrations on January 1, 2017 in Paris. (AFP PHOTO / LIONEL...

11 Ships have Wrecked on New Year’s Eve

Approximately eleven ships have been wrecked off New Jersey over a period of two hundred years on New Year’s Eve.  Here’s a potpourri of...

Top 10 Accidents Read in MFAME in 2016

Few accidents in 2016 were unforgettable.  Here are the Top 10 Accidents of 2016. 1. Tanker Explosion Throws Worker 80 Metres On Wednesday, the product tanker...

Will 2017 Bear Gifts for Ship Owners, or Will it Prove...

Most likely, 2016 won’t sit well with the majority of shipowners, at least in the major segments, as all of them were faced with...

Energy, Finance & the GoM

By Richard J. Paine, Sr. Some positive market indicators could presage an investment revival in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico – and beyond. The good news,...

Captain Explains Hardships, Pride of Joint Mission

This year marks the fifth anniversary of the Joint Patrol and Law Enforcement initiative on the Mekong River.  We continue our six-part special coverage...

IUMI Reports on Recent IMO Meetings

Report on the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC70) The Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) met on 24 to 28 October 2016 in London.  IUMI...