On 5th December 2012, the car carrier Baltic Ace sank with more than 1,400 cars on board after a collision with a container ship...

The Story: Salvage Control Unit officials are drawing up plans for a place of refuge for the fire ravaged bulk carrier V-Due. What happened? On 1st December,...

Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessels are mainly built to handle anchors for oil rigs, tow them to location, anchor them up and, in...

Caterpillar Marine reports that Horizon Shipbuilding, Bayou LaBatre, AL, is in the process of installing the first production EPA Tier 4 certified 3516E EPA...

The Story: On Monday, the busiest United States petrochemical port to the Gulf of Mexico ‘Houston Ship Channel’ reopened after a fire damaged the ship...

At 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 4, 1875, the 223-foot side-wheel passenger steamship “Pacific” with about 275 on board sailed from Esquimalt Harbour on the...

Single-deck dry cargo vessel project RSD49 mixed "river-sea" navigation "Atameken" successfully completed sea trials in Lake Ladoga. The vessel was built at Nevsky Shipyard for...

Intellian Technologies, the global leader in maritime satellite communication antenna systems, is pleased to announce that it’s FB250R and FB500R FleetBroadband terminals have received...

It has been reported that by the end of 2016, there will be four fewer container lines than at the start of the year...

As the IMO convention is looming, ship owners are looking for cost-effective solutions for ballast water management. Ship owner’s quest: On a recent visit to Vancouver,...

Container lines are warning trans-Pacific shippers of significantly higher spot and contracts next year amid a wall of deep losses and weak demand but...

Freight rates for very large crude carriers (VLCCs), which are hovering close to the multi-month highs hit last week, are set to soften ahead...

The representatives of international organisations, government agencies, industry and academia attending the World Ocean Council’s fourth Sustainable Ocean Summit last week were left in...

The U.S. Coast Guard issued the first U.S. type-approval certificate for a ballast water management system Friday. The Coast Guard Marine Safety Center issued the...

4 sea pirates arrested, Navy launches new Security plan in Niger Delta The Nigerian Navy has on Thursday launched a new security operation in the...

On Saturday morning, a Spanish vessel Muros en route from Tees, UK, to Rochefort, France, ran aground after facing mechanical failure about eight miles...

100-year-old Pearl Harbor Survivor Honored at Pearl Harbor Remembrance Ceremony On December 5, World War II Veterans were honored at the National Museum of the...

A container ship named Hanni ran aground in Elbe River near Muhlenberg, Germany.  The vessel soon lost its propulsion power shortly after leaving Hamburg....

Singapore – New Bunkering Procedure Following a number of reported incidents concerning allegations of short delivery of residual fuel oil in Singapore, as detailed in...

Scientists have developed a new forecasting model to help large ocean vessels avoid collisions with blue whales, the largest species on the planet. The model...