LNG Transfer Solution for Safer Operation
The Swedish coupling manufacturer and supplier MannTek has launched a liquefied natural gas small-scale transfer system that aims to make safer and easier operation across the LNG industry.
According to the company, the system is...
Half Marooned Ship with Damaged Instruments Anchored Off Barcelona
The "C-Star" has dropped anchor off the coast of Barcelona on Sep 27. She was half-marooned, with the navigational instruments damaged and the crew members, who survived thanks to humanitarian aid, asking to disembark...
Navios Maritime Partners: The $64,000 Question
By Tudor Invest Holdings
Summary
The increase in the BDI will translate into higher earnings.
Free cash flow has been established and is set to continue to increase.
Management needs to walk the walk and...
Crude Oil Carriers Market to Register Substantial Expansion by 2024
Transparency Market Research has released a new market report titled “Crude Oil Carriers Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth Trends and Forecast 2016 – 2024.” According to this report, the global crude...
Capacity Concerns Cast Shadow Over Shipping Recovery
Supply and demand in container shipping will not reach a balance before 2019, analysts say, but there remains lingering concerns that the strict observance of fundamentals required to make this happen might be upset...
[Watch] Route of Greek Tanker Shown Before Sinking, Spilling Oil
An oil spill has prompted tricky questions for the Greek central government after tonnes of oil from a sunken tanker turned 40km of Athens' beaches black and prevented bathers and fishermen from using the coastal waters.
Greece's...
Retrofit to LNG Enables Emissions Reduction
An LNG engine conversion project has enabled a ship to reduce its SOx emissions by 99%.
The project involved the retrofitting of the MAN 8L48/60B main engine of Wessels Reederei’s 1,036-teu feeder container Wes Amelie to a...
Ferry Slammed into Cement Tanker
On September 26, a ferry reportedly collided with a tanker carrying concrete material.
What happened?
The ferry ‘Gorinchem X’ was involved in a collision with a concrete tanker ‘Tarsis’ on the upper Merwede at Werkendam.
The captain...
Small Cargo Ship Sinks Off Athens
A few weeks after the sinking of Agia Zoni II tanker that caused immeasurable environmental damage to the Saronic Gulf, Greek authorities are trying to deal with a new wreck at the near-by area...
Dutch Court to Hear New Case on I.Coast Chemical Spill
Over 500 cubic metres of toxic chemicals were dumped on garbage sites in the Ivory Coast's economic capital Abidjan in 2006, killng 17 people and poisoning thousands, Ivorian judges say
Lawyers for 100,000 victims of...