50 Loaded Tankers Await At Rotterdam – Where Bankruptcy & Bulker...

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One Dead As Two Fall Into Cargo Hold Of A Bulk...

Rough sea condition and strong winds pushed two crew men into the cargo hold onboard a Hong Kong-flagged bulker, off southern Vietnam.  One of...

It’s Time To Go Home – Joey Feek Is Dying

Terminally Ill Joey Feek Only Has A Few More Days 'At The Most,' Husband Says Joey Feek has been asleep for days, her husband...

Change Of Heads At Kawasaki Heavy Industries!

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, one of the leading shipbuilders, held a meeting, the outcome of which there was an announcement where Yoshinori Kanehana will take...

Crane Boom Collapsed Causing Severe Damage To A Newbuild Jack-Up Rig

MFAME came out with a news where a worker fainted and was found coated with oil inside an oil tank yesterday.  Today, here is one...

Pirates Have A New Weapon – They Hack Ship’s Computers First

Cybercrime is on the rise and we have brought to light a real life case where a CEO was scammed more than a million dollars.  Here...

Cargo Ship Crew And The Royal Thai Navy Rescue Yacht Members

A Malaysian flagged yacht got adrift at sea for five days after an engine failure.  The vessel suffered rips and cracks and it managed...

Singapore Makes A Bid For Baltic Exchange

The talks relating to buying of Baltic Exchange by Singapore Exchange Ltd, which is a hub of global shipping market, was aimed at shoring...

Crew Missing – Fishing Vessel Collides With a Container Ship

  Human error and violation of ColReg regulations have lead a Taiwanese fishing boat collide with a container ship before pulling into Kaohsiung.  Incident...

Top 15 Real Life Ghost Ships

From abandoned ships stripped of their every identification, to men that vanished from their boat mid-meal without explanation.  Let us take a look at...

A CEO Who Lost Million Dollars! A Real Life Cyber...

MFAME has been featuring tons of case studies from shipboard accidents and fuel problems.  While the main aim is safety awareness and safe handling...

A Haunting Tribute Of A Mummified Mariner To His Dead Wife

A haunting note  'The power of the demons was stronger than the will to live' was recovered along with some photos near the mummified body of...

COSCOCS Challenges Maersk, MOL By The Newly Formed Alliance

China Cosco Shipping Corporation, formed by the merger of former rivals China Ocean Shipping Group Company and China Shipping Group(COSCOCS), one of the World’s...

Container Carrier Ran Aground In Kiel Canal

The 8,634 DWT container carrier ran aground near Kiel Holtenau, Germany.  The vessel rammed breakwater bank by starboard and stuck hardly.  The captain of...

Baltic Index Inches Up & Speculations On SALT (Scorpio Bulkers) Up...

Greetings readers. We are happy to write to you on this first day of the new month.  So what the shipping market has to say...

SS Grandcamp Exploded Killing 567 People

The SS Grandcamp was a re-activated 437-foot-long (133 m) Liberty ship.  The SS Grandcamp was originally named the SS Benjamin R. Curtis in Los...

Collision Between Chemical Tanker And Cargo Ship During An Ice Convoy!

Kara Sea witnessed the collision of a Chemical tanker with a Cargo ship which happened during an ice convoy escort.  Both giants are Russian...

Seafarer Falls Overboard A Bulker And Dies

A Chinese seafarer fell overboard and died over the weekend at the Port of Tauranga in New Zealand A seafarer was working on a bulker...

Don’t Drop Anchors In The Scapa Flow Area!

Don't Drop Anchors In The Scapa Flow Area! Torpedo-Like Object Found A 3280 feet exclusion zone has been marked for all ships and the divers...

Worker Fainted Aboard An Oil Tanker, Found Covered In Oil

The Sembcorp Marine Admiralty Yard, Singapore has reported on an incident where a person working on the repairs of a Russian flagged Oil Tanker...