Australia is starting to take a firmer line against ship crew abuse by major shipping lines. One of Japan’s largest shipping companies, NYK Line, was called out this week. Their Panama-flagged cargo ship, the Metis...

Hafnia Limited is pleased to formally announce its order for two Aframax-type LR2 vessels equipped with Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) propulsion. This order was made through Hafnia’s Vista JV with CSSC Shipping. It...

Drones can be used to make ship surveys faster, more accurate and safer by removing the need for deploying a workboat. Naval architecture and marine engineering company Foreship has started using drones to...

DNV GL, the technical advisor to the maritime industry, approves KONGSBERG’s ship-to-cloud data infrastructure service. Safety and cyber security were the critical parameters in a recently completed Technical Qualification for Vessel Insight. Digitalization...

The latest stats reveal a trans-Pacific trade that’s largely maxed out just seven weeks before Christmas. Spot rates have surged despite a huge amount of ship capacity injected into the trans-Pacific trade by...

A recent Business Insider article details how British SBS commandos train to recapture hijacked ships. Let’s take a look at it. Suspected hijacking by stowaways British frogmen from the secretive Special Boat Service (SBS) stormed a tanker...

Joe Biden of the Democratic Party is with 224 electoral votes while his counterpart Donald Trump of the Republic Party is with 213 electoral votes. In Senate both the Democrats and Republicans have...

Maersk partners with Lawhill Marine Centre to continue maritime education following Safmarine 25-year investment, says a press release published on their website. Center’s contribution Shipbroking and logistics From the early 1990s and over the years, the Centre...

Cargill, whose chartered fleet of around 600 ships comprises dry bulk ships and tankers, said it had partnered with engineering specialists BAR Technologies and naval architect Deltamarin to develop wing sails that reach up...

Passenger ship decommissioned for dismantling dragged anchor and drifted aground on a beach in Alvarado municipality waters, Gulf of Mexico, reports Maritime Bulletin.  What happened? The passenger ship ENCHANTED CAPRI (ex- Soviet cruise ship Azerbaijan), decommissioned...