Lower bunker costs are “very welcome in an industry struggling to make a profit”, says shipping industry association BIMCO in its latest container market...

UMMS has won SME One Asia Awards 2015. About SME One Asia Awards - RECOGNISING SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE SMEs IN ASIA: SME One Asia Awards was created...

Effective immediately, and until further notice, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP)  will require transiting crude oil tankers, product carrier, and chemical tankers carrying cargoes...

Type Of Ship Bulk Carrier. What Happened Fitted Bolts found missing between Rudder Flange and Rudder stock. Incident: A 23,400 GRT  Bulk Carrier,  built in 1982 was on a...

  Cargo ship at anchor, awaiting scrapping, collided with another vessel at the Caribbean entrance to the interoceanic waterway. The seafarers reported to have abandoned...

A bad weather on Monday afternoon caused a general cargo ship to collide with a product tanker off Myanmar.  The cargo ship sank whereas...

Fitters and welders onboard ships are experts in creating “Make-shift” tools or equipment. When such things are being fabricated, a careful risk assessment has...

China’s slowing growth has crushed shipping rates to such an extent that hiring a 1,100-foot merchant vessel would set you back less than the...

    A 164-meter-long Roll-on/Roll-off vessel lost stability in heavy weather and was drifting fast towards the French coast in the Bay of Biscay. A...

The World Health Organisation estimated that more than 800,000 people had committed suicides worldwide in 2012.  Paul Farmer, of mental health charity Mind, said...