MSC Maya Official Christening, Antwerp, 26/09/15 from MSC Cargo on Vimeo. On 26th September 2015, MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company christened the MSC Maya.  The vessel...

SKF’s condition monitoring solutions will help Tsakos Columbia Shipmanagement S.A. in preventing unexpected equipment failures and cut costs across its fleet of 70 ships. SKF...

Technical Tip: Shipboard staffs require frequent engineering tips to brush up and hone their skills.  As a professional Superintendent or a Vessel Manager, you...

In the course of the Arctic expedition, researchers from the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet made over 20 geographic discoveries, including the discovery of nine...

While there is a huge buzz in the maritime world regarding the ‘return of the Somali pirates’, Somalia’s ambassador, Gamal Mohamed Hassan, who recently...

Athenaeum InterContinental Athens’ Ballroom will be the venue for the first ever fundraiser event on the 15th of October 2015, organised in Greece. Many companies including...

A framework agreement between Trelleborg Offshore operations and Statoil, for the supply of Passive Fire Protection Solution, has been signed.  The fire protection product,...

USCG’s New Acceptable NOAD Formats comes into Force From October As per the newly published Notice of Arrival/Departure (NOAD) regulation Title 33 Code of Federal...

Accident type : Vessel Grounding Vessel type : General Cargo Ship Vessel involved : Turkey flagged vessel managed by Latvian company Astramar Transport. Location : Weser river in Bremerhaven, Germany. En Route : Estonia to Morocco Casualties : None 1985 built 2,859 DWT...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0_MmEO7o4&feature=youtu.be VT Halter Marine, Inc., a subsidiary of VT Systems Inc., is progressing its work towards the construction of the two ships El Coqui (ko-kee) and...

Typhoon Dujuan passed through Taiwan for three hours on Monday night, where it killed two, injured hundreds and left hundreds of thousands without power...

Annual golf fundraiser for the Squaw Valley Institute was organised in Olympic Valley where Erik Lars Roner, aged 39, died in a skydiving accident....

Baltic Exchange CEO, Jeremy Penn, is to quit from the role by next summer.  He has served the company for nearly twelve and a...

Accident : Food Poisoning onboard Vessel Involved : Nefryt, a general cargo vessel Casualties : 2 dead and 13 hospitalised The general cargo ship started its voyage from Ivory Coast...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0_MmEO7o4&feature=youtu.be The Dpulsar system is a counter-rotating propeller system that can operate on the water line. Barry Davies, a New Zealand inventor, invented this system...

This year the Big 3 shipbuilders sat across the table for wage negotiations between labor and management. On Sept. 22, the labor union of Daewoo...

A five year old girl gets through security pushing past metal barriers and a phalanx to deliver message to Pope. Sofia Cruz, daughter of undocumented immigrant...

Speaking at the 30th-anniversary dinner of the Singapore Shipping Association, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean said the shipping and marine industry contribute enormously...

Port of Rotterdam, in its pro-LNG implementation plan, held two master plan meetings last week.  The first meeting held on 23rd September was concerning...

Kevin Newton, worker onboard the ship, has filed a lawsuit against the vessel management for the injuries sustained by him while working on the...