Disputes In Emission Control Areas Over Low Sulphur Fuel

IMO is authorised under MARPOL Annex VI to establish ECAs where vessels have to control and reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulphur oxides (SOx)....

[WATCH] The Battle to Save a Cargo Ship

Battle To Save A Cargo Ship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Nine crew members are missing after their boat sank off the coast in stormy conditions. Rescue workers are also...

Steamship Sank In Lake Michigan Killing 300

The Greatest Marine Horrors On Record Accident type : Collision Vessels involved : PS Lady Elgin and schooner Augusta Location : Lake Michigan Date : September 8, 1860 Casualties : About 300 lives VESSEL INFORMATION: Name :...

Hong Kong Port Expands in Size And Service

Hong Kong’s economy owes a great deal to the container port industry.  The combined midstream services of Hong Kong terminal operators (Hutchison Port Holdings...

Gantry Cranes Create a Loading Record at APM Terminals

Rotterdam Maasvlakte II terminal set a loading record last month on the Madison Maersk with 17,152 TEU loaded, including ten high above deck stowage....

A Swift Medical Evacuation by The Coast Guard

On November 2, Alice Oldendorff, Portuguese-flagged bulk carrier (owned by Oldendorff Carriers of Lübeck) was sailing from Canada to New York when a Ukrainian...

Greenpeace Activists Stop Coal Supply to Power Plants

In Finland, Hanasaari coal power plant at central and Salmisaari power plants at Helsinki produce roughly 50% of the heat in the entire region,...

General Dynamics NASSCO To Deliver The First Tanker For APT

American Petroleum Tankers (APT) had placed orders for five tankers with the General Dynamics NASSCO.  The first ‘ECO’ tanker was named ‘the Lone Star...

Sanmar Chooses Caterpillar’s Propulsion Units

Sanmar Shipyards in Turkey has signed a Letter of Intent for the supply of an extensive range of propulsion units over the next three...

A Product Tanker Collides Off Taiwan Strait

A Product tanker collided with a fishing vessel, southeast of Quanzhou, Taiwan Strait. Accident type : Collision Vessels involved : Hu You 8  and Min Shi Yu Location : Southeast of...