Following an intelligence report, the Nigerian Navy impounded five vessels and 108,000 litres of diesel fuel.  The report states that the operators of the...

Accident : Collision Vessels Involved : Wako Maru No 2 and Sulphur Garland Location : 10 nautical miles off Shimonoseki, Japan Casualties : None Pollution : 13000 litres oil spill The two tankers (Wako...

Traders report that Vitol – The oil giant has booked two 90,000 tonne tankers off the coast of Britain to stock diesel volumes for...

Mohammad Saeidi, the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL), says that Iran will go for a fleet expansion campaign in...

The United Arab Shipping Company is currently the world’s 15th-largest shipping line, with a fleet of 56 vessels representing an overall capacity of 482,617...

Fumigation of cargo, especially edible cargo with pesticides such as with methyl bromide could have disastrous health repercussions warns the West of England P&I...

The tanker Exxon Valdez, spilled 260,000 barrels of crude in Prince William Sound in 1989 which was the largest in U.S. waters and one...

US promises to clean up Spanish nuke accident after several decades. The U.S. and Spain have decided to remediate the coastal region of Spain.  The...

Tata Steel is set to announce 1,200 job cuts at its plants in Scunthorpe and Lanarkshire after a series of job cuts in UK...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0_MmEO7o4&feature=youtu.be A shiplift is a modern alternative for a slipway, a floating dry dock or a graving dry dock. Watch the above video features the biggest shiplift...

APM Terminals – a part of the Maersk group, that operates in Shipping, Terminals, Energy, Tankers, Container Manufacturing and Supply Chain Solutions amongst others....

Accident : Vessel grounding Date : 19 October 2015 Vessel Involved : Jo Spirit Location : St. Lawrence Seaway near Kahnawake Pollution : Nil On Monday morning, the vessel ran aground blocking the South...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0_MmEO7o4&feature=youtu.be The first cargo of the Liquified Natural Gas from the Santos GLNG project was successfully loaded onto the Malaysian-owned LNG Cargo vessel Seri Bakti....

Mauritius occupies a strategic position in the Indian Ocean, offering a base for shipping on the East-West trade routes and for businesses looking for...

What should have been an easy en-route delivery of the much awaited cargo of Electrical Transformers from China to Syria has turned out to...

Personal injury settlements for seafarers in Hong Kong must be fair and realistic taking into account the prevailing conditions.  Shipping insurance P&I Club Gard...

Ship Type : Chemical/Product Tanker. Location : 70 Nautical Miles off Bulgaria, Black Sea. Cargo : Vegetable Oil. Casualties : None. Incident : Engine Room Flooding & Loss of Propulsion. The Chemical tanker M/T Pazar lost the...

United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) is a global shipping company based in the Middle East.  Founded in 1976, UASC has more than 185 offices...

Accident : Crane Collapse Date : October 17, 2015 Location : Longshan Shipyard, Zhoushan Casualties : One dead, 2 injured and one missing. On Saturday, the crane in the ship repair yard...

Apple has been ordered to pay more than $234 million to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the damages for patent infringement.  The suit is...