Captain Gets 2 Year Prison Time for Smuggling Oil
The captain of tanker vessel deployed in pumping out oil from a sunken ship was handed over a two-year sentence for smuggling oil.
What happened?
The captain of tanker "Lassea", which was employed in pumping oil...
Award for Scottish Ship’s Captain Who Saved 907 Migrants
The captain of a merchant ship who helped save 907 refugees from overloaded and unseaworthy boats off the coast of Libya is to be honoured.
Jamie Wilson was in charge of a vessel conducting underwater...
Stricter Ship Safety Requirements on Yangtze River
Jiangsu Maritime Safety Administration (Jiangsu MSA) issued a Notice on 26 September 2017 outlining temporary stricter safety requirements that will be in place in the waters of Jiangsu during the upcoming 19th National Congress...
Google Enters the Autonomous Shipping Race
Google has joined the revolutionary trend of developing autonomous ships by partnering with Rolls-Royce Marine. The two companies have agreed to develop intelligent awareness systems for vessels, which are thought to be essential for...
Cat Fines Pose Growing Threat
The issue of how to deal with cat fines is becoming ever more urgent as the 2020 global sulphur cap approaches.
Ever since catalytic cracking processes were developed during the oil crisis to squeeze more...
China’s Key Investment to Change World Trade Flows
By Peter Fuhrman
Summary
HK-listed China Merchants Port Holdings closes in on a major prize, taking over a now loss-making deepwater port in Sri Lanka.
Maybe the key project in China's huge but still amorphous...
Baltic Index Falls as Week-long China Holiday Hits Demand
The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index, tracking rates for ships carrying dry bulk commodities, fell for the fifth straight session on Monday as vessel demand weakened with top consumer China on a week-long...
The Impact of Extreme Weather on Contracts of Carriage
Extreme weather events may have an impact on the trading of cargo vessels, for example during the recent hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria in the USA and Caribbean, as they give rise to legal...
Flower-like Wave Energy Turbines Could Power the Coasts of Japan
Along Japan's coasts are structures called tetrapods. These pyramid-shaped concrete wave breakers serve to reduce the strength of crashing waves to prevent erosion in key spots along the shoreline. Researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science...
Hazardous Emissions from Ship Engines Down
Hazardous emissions from ship engines at Murmansk Commercial seaport have reduced by more than a half over a 7-year period, MCS refers to the expert report of the Central Marine Research and Design Institute (CNIIMF JSC).
The scientists...