Tsakos Columbia Shipmanagement Takes Marine Maintenance to the Next level with...

SKF’s condition monitoring solutions will help Tsakos Columbia Shipmanagement S.A. in preventing unexpected equipment failures and cut costs across its fleet of 70 ships. SKF...

Does the Pressure Gauge Needle Hunt? Watch out for Air-in-Oil.

Technical Tip: Shipboard staffs require frequent engineering tips to brush up and hone their skills.  As a professional Superintendent or a Vessel Manager, you...

Russia Discovers 9 Arctic Islands as Ice Melts!

In the course of the Arctic expedition, researchers from the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet made over 20 geographic discoveries, including the discovery of nine...

‘Return of the Somali Pirates’ to the Homeland

While there is a huge buzz in the maritime world regarding the ‘return of the Somali pirates’, Somalia’s ambassador, Gamal Mohamed Hassan, who recently...

Sailor’s Society Announces First Fund Raiser Event In Greece

Athenaeum InterContinental Athens’ Ballroom will be the venue for the first ever fundraiser event on the 15th of October 2015, organised in Greece. Many companies including...

Trelleborg Supplies Fire Protection Needs to Statoil

A framework agreement between Trelleborg Offshore operations and Statoil, for the supply of Passive Fire Protection Solution, has been signed.  The fire protection product,...

New Acceptable NOAD Formats

USCG’s New Acceptable NOAD Formats comes into Force From October As per the newly published Notice of Arrival/Departure (NOAD) regulation Title 33 Code of Federal...

Cargo Vessel Ran Aground Off Germany

Accident type : Vessel Grounding Vessel type : General Cargo Ship Vessel involved : Turkey flagged vessel managed by Latvian company Astramar Transport. Location : Weser river in Bremerhaven, Germany. En Route : Estonia to Morocco Casualties : None 1985 built 2,859 DWT...

[Watch] Progression of Crowley’s ConRo Ship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0_MmEO7o4&feature=youtu.be VT Halter Marine, Inc., a subsidiary of VT Systems Inc., is progressing its work towards the construction of the two ships El Coqui (ko-kee) and...

Typhoon Strikes China, After Lashing Taiwan

Typhoon Dujuan passed through Taiwan for three hours on Monday night, where it killed two, injured hundreds and left hundreds of thousands without power...