Stevedores Union Strike in Portugal

A ten-day dockworkers’ strike will affect the three Portuguese ports starting from November 14. In order to protest at a potential end of collective bargaining...

[Watch] The Arrival of The World’s Largest Cranes in Mexico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be The heavy lift ship Zhen Hua 26 arrived at the APM Terminal Lázaro Cárdenas (TEC2) delivering the world’s largest ship to shore cranes. Highlights: It has...

CSCL Confirms Charters For Six 21,000 TEU Containerships

CSCL revealed in an announcement on Friday that a unit of China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) has entered into bareboat charter agreements for the...

A Simple System Purifies All The Drinking Water

A Simple System Purifies All The Drinking Water For a Remote Mexican Village https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Till recent times, soda was cheaper than bottled water in La Mancalona,...

World’s First Floating Wind Farm – Under Construction by Statoil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Statoil has made the final investment decision to build the world’s first floating wind farm: The Hywind pilot park offshore Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This...

Fire Alert on a Cargo Ship at Port of Tyne

Firefighters from across Tyne Wear Fire and Rescue services rushed to the port after the Port of Tyne raised a fire alert on a...

Container Ship Detained After Oil Spill in Bremerhaven

Incident : Vessel grounding Vessel Involved : Containership Sylt Location : Bremerhaven Pollution : Oil spill The vessel, en route from Vuosaari, Finland to Copenhagen, Denmark, arrived at the German port and...

Pink Dolphin Witness Simon Holliday’s World Record

Open-water swimmer Simon Holliday swam from Hong Kong to Macau on 24 May 2014.  In that he created a record for fastest swim from...

Livestock Carrier on Fire in Portland

Accident : Fire Vessel Involved : Awassi Express, a livestock carrier Cargo Onboard : Grains Date : 3rd November 2015 Location : Off the coast of Victoria in Australia Casualties : None A livestock carrier, carrying...

A Tablet for Onboard Inspection

"Enekarte" is a  vessel inspection system based on tablet computer.  This was developed in cooperation with Azbil Corporation (a major Japanese provider of instrumentation...