Southeast Asia Indonesia: Armed robbers steal properties from tanker at Lubuk Gaung 27 July Six assailants armed with knives boarded a berthed product tanker at 0520...

Floating Diesel Storage Becoming Viable in NWE Thanks to the combination of a wider market contango and depressed freight rates, there has been more enquiries...

New Welding Procedure Helps to Avoid Drydocking Whittaker Engineering, an independent Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) company, has developed a unique water-backed welding procedure for...

Tokyo – ClassNK has just released the latest version of its design support software PrimeShip-HULL (HCSR) Ver.3.5.0., developed in response to the IACS Common...

Swash Buckling Female Pirates? By Frederick Hedenberg I'm rarely surprised by something I had given little or no thought to.  This happened recently when a reader...

A large merchant vessel pulled up anchor at Qingyuan Port (now Ningbo City) in Zhejiang Province of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and left on...

Shipping Wakes up to the New Digital Age The analysis and collection of big data are becoming the ‘oil of 21st century’ for the maritime...

Tankers: Charterers take center stage ahead of pure ship owners, actively managing tanker fleet Lower charter rates are forcing a change regarding the commercial management...

The largest oil-by-rail terminal in the US would double oil shipments through the Columbia River. by Julia Rosen A proposal to build the United States’ largest...

The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced yesterday that seven foreign flagged ships were under detention in UK ports during July 2016 after failing Port...