How Safe are Panama Canal’s Tugs Instead of the Mules?

How Safe are Panama Canal’s Tugs instead of the Mules? - Doubts Allianz Insurance company Allianz in its briefing examines the risk management impact of...

Impact of ECA Regulation on the Shipping Sector

 ECA - One Year Later The use of distillate fuels is currently regarded as the easiest compliance method, both from a technical and financial point...

Swede Died After Jumping Off Ship

Swede Commits Suicide by Jumping Off Ship A Swedish national facing charges of human trafficking died on 21st June after he jumped off a vessel, about...

Fire in Engine Room Rendered a Swiss Cargo Ship to Loose...

Bulker Aground in Lake Superior On June 19 at 12.20 a.m., a Swiss flagged general cargo ship suffered a fire aboard its engine room...

[Watch] MV Benita: “Buoys to Contain the Oil”

Bulker Aground in Lake Superior Officers of the National Coast Guard were hard at work, Sunday, June 19, to install the buoys.  This, after...

Oil Spill From the Grounded Bulker Off Mauritius

On June 19, the Environment Minister Alain Wong, reportedly was dissatisfied with reports about salvage plan, personally took a dive to film under the...

Oil Spill Spotted Off Port of Nakhodka

An oil spill has occurred in the Russian port of Nakhodka, located in Primorsky Territory, Russia’s Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport (Rosmorrechflot)...

Vessel Captain, Engineer Killed by Drunk Crewmen

Vietnamese Crewmen Held Over Killing of South Korea Ship Captain, Engineer: Coast Guard Two Vietnamese crewmen on a South Korean fishing vessel in the Indian...

Archaeologists Explore 17th Century Dutch Shipwreck in Iceland

Marine Archaeologists Explore 17th Century Dutch Shipwreck in Iceland The oldest known shipwreck around the coast of Iceland is currently being researched by marine archaeologists...

6 Ways a Ship can Lose Propulsion!

‘Fuel switching’ and ‘Loss Of Propulsion’ has come back to the spotlight of again and this is mainly attributed to the recent NTSB reports...