The Ship That Has Outlasted Time: The Queen Mary Celebrates 80...

The Queen Mary Celebrates 80 Years Of Public Life; New Churchill Paintings Exhibit And Public Events Planned No other ship of her era remains in...

Captain Of A Bulker Gets 6 Months Prison Term For Damaging...

Master Sentenced For Violating Navigation Rules And Damaging Cable A court in Annaba handed down a six-month term plus 406 euro fine to Du Chang...

$950K Fine For Dumping Polluted Water Off Hawaii

The South Korean shipping company, owner of the oil tanker which dumped and polluted water into the ocean near Hawaii in February, was fined...

Singapore Supports Dry Bulkers With A 10% Cut On Port Dues

MPA Extends Further Support to Shipping Industry with 10 Per Cent Port Dues Concession for Bulk Carriers from April 15 On Tuesday, the Maritime and...

Alert! Your GPS Signals May Not Work In The Korean Waters

Japan P&I Club Warns Of GPS Signal Jamming The Japan P&I Club has issued a notice that the vessels entering the Korean Waters are being...

The Most Fuel Efficient Ferries In The World, From Stena Lines

Stena Inks The World’s Most Fuel Efficient Ferries Deal Stena has signed a contract, for an order of four new RoPax ferries with planned delivery...

[Watch] Fatal Tugboat Sinking In Hudson River

Mfame earlier reported the fatality of the tugboat ‘Specialist,’ which sank after it crashed into a construction barge near the Tappan Zee bridge. A video was...

[Watch] The Skywalk, The Death-Defying Stunt

  The daredevil Alex Thomson along with his team pull off one of the most death-defying stunt. Having established himself as a daredevil of...

Panama Canal Draught Forces Draft Restrictions Again!

Announcement of Second Draft Restriction As anticipated in Advisories to Shipping A-5-2016, A-7-2016 and A-12-2016, a second draft restriction is being hereby announced. Effective April 29,...

Time To Merge The Big Three South Korean Shipbuilders?

Yes! Says South Korea’s former strategy and finance minister Yoon Jeung-Hyun; the Big Three shipbuilders should consider merging. Last week a Mfame article discussed on...

[Watch] Impact Of Titanic Still Felt In Halifax 104 Years Later

It was a maiden voyage that turned out to be its last.  When the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic ocean in 1912, Halifax became...

Cargo Vessel Runs Aground In Greece

Accident Cargo ship ran aground Date 4th April 2016 Vessel Type General cargo ship Location Aegean sea off Kos island, Greece Casualties/Pollution Nil A Syrian owned general cargo ship ran aground in the afternoon...

BSM Offers Two More New Services

Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement is expanding its scope of ship management services by offering two more new services - Lay up services and Green Cycling. In...

This Is No Oil Leak But A Giant Tax Leak!

A Panamanian law firm called Mossack Fonseca leaked  2.6 terabytes of confidential documents now known as the Panama Papers.  The documents  offers a deep...

Top 3 Keys For Handling BIG Ships

 Collaboration is a key for big ship success.   How do you engage your shipping lines and container terminal? Reports prove that many ports and terminals...

Maersk’s Starfish Ready for Assembly In Norway

Barge Carrying Parts Of Maersk’s New Build Reach Norway An Ugland barge carrying the parts of Maersk’s new build was towed by the Svitzer tug...

Focus On System Of Integration By CIMAC World Congress

AIM To develop regulations and standards in system integration (e.g. EEDI definitions and implementation rules). Participants  The Working Group will ideally consist of engine builders, engineering companies,...

U.S. Navy Intercepts A Massive Arms Shipment

U.S. Navy ship seized thousands of weapons, AK-47 rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers that likely were headed to Yemen. Dear Mfame reader, Recently we have encountered...

Port Watch – Ships Docked At The Sea Port Of Rotterdam

  Ships - the monstrous marvels moving around in the calm waters is the passion for most people in the marine fraternity.  Watching these...

British Sailor Buried At Sea

British sailor is buried at sea after being swept into the Pacific Ocean during Clipper Round the World Yacht Race Sarah Young, 40, from London,...