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...