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...
Serena Williams Chases A Phone Grabber Down
In what she described as a "win for the ladies" the American, who has won 21 Grand Slam singles titles, chased down the man...
Freighter Ran Aground in Goole
Accident
: Vessel Ran Aground on the river wall
Vessel Involved
: Bienville
Date
: Nov 4, 2015 Early hours
Location
: Goole, United Kingdom
En route
: From Riga Latvia to Goole UK
Casualties
: None
A General...
Seamen Saved From a Sinking Vessel
3 seamen were rescued from a sinking vessel in the east of Cape Hatteras, NC.
On 2nd November, 2015 Sector North Carolina watch standers got...