Top 10 Secrets Your Cruise Ship Captain Won’t Tell You
The job of a cruise ship captain is anything but romantic. Actually, it’s quite stressful. These employees are responsible for he safety of thousands of passengers and hundreds of crew members hailing from different corners of...
Ship Captain Reveals Bad Weather Could Cause THIS to Happen Onboard
Express.co.uk spoke to Captain Tuvo from the ITV documentary "The Cruise" about some of the things he has learnt by being a captain onboard the Star Princess. The captain reveals some of the best...
It’s a Crash Due to Restricted Visibility! What can You Say?
Thanks to VesselFinder, It's a graphics animation based video representation of the collision between Delphis Gdansk and BBC Neptune in which BBC Neptune sustained damages in the forward part of the ship.
Wogden 700
Looks like the...
A Legal Reality Check for Autonomous Shipping in 2018
In the second part of this two-part series, an international shipping lawyer Torgeir Willumsen takes a closer look at the legal obstacles to autonomous shipping, reports Seatrade Maritime.
Commercial barriers
There are very a few technological...
South America to Europe Trade ‘on the Mend’
The northbound East Coast South America to Europe trade is finally ‘on the mend’ heading into the Brazilian fruit export season, according to new analysis from container shipping analyst Drewry.
Trade trend
The latest container statistics...
Shell Again Charters 2nd VLCC Crude Cargo
Shell charters LOOP’s 2nd direct-to-VLCC US crude export cargo.
VLCC Nave Photon, is in the Gulf of Mexico, as of 27th March, Tuesday.
It arrived at the LOOP waters on March 15 and...
Shipping Fleet Statistics: 2017
Gross tonnage on the UK Ship Register (UKSR) grew 7% in the year to end 2017, and was 16.2 million GT at end December 2017.
Official data from the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) –...
Charter Market Capacity Crunch May Dent Profitability
A capacity crunch is predicted in the charter market in the coming months.
This is due to a 30-month high rate in the ongoing charter rates caused by strong demands for fresh...
‘Extreme’ Iceberg Seasons Threaten Shipping
The giant icebergs and sea ice that once remained trapped in the frozen Arctic are moving southward faster and more frequently, menacing shipping and oil and gas drilling operations due to the warming of...
Wärtsilä Cargo Handling Systems Onboard LEG Carriers
On March 28, two LEG carriers which were built by Sinopacific with Wärtsilä solutions onboard were christened.
LEG carriers
The two vessel in the first series of five Liquid Ethylene Gas (LEG) carriers which have completed...