Crew Training Vital for Safe Sailing of LNG-fuelled Ships
In recent years, the IMO has rubber-stamped a series of regulations that seek to suppress the environmental impact of global shipping operations. The installation of technologies on board ships to limit invasive species transfer...
Main Engine Clutches Disengaged Automatically Resulting in Collision
Summary
On 04 December 2017, at 1908, the dredger FRPD 309, owned by Fraser River Pile and Dredge (GP) Inc., departed a shipyard in Delta, BC, to begin dredging in the Fraser River. The vessel...
As Blue Haze Rises, so do Cruise Ship Complaints
More people are complaining against cruise ships due to a blue haze.
Blue haze, a mixture of exhaust stacks and sulfur scrubber emission is not an environmental problem.
It requires a trained eye...
Check Hoses Before Transferring Cargo
Failure of equipment lead to halting of the ship-to-ship (STS) oil cargo transfer in an UK offshore terminal recently, reports TankerShipping.
Sequence of the Incident
UK P&I club investigated the incident, described below:
A tanker...
[Watch] Waterspout Spins Close to Ship in Gulf of Mexico
A waterspout was seen close to a ship in the Gulf of Mexico on July 14, according to footage posted on YouTube. Trent Watson told Storyful that he captured the footage as he was...
New Largest US Container Ship Build Hides Facts
The Daniel K Inouye, a largest container ship ever built in the US, was constructed at the Philly Shipyard in Philadelphia. The new vessel is the first of four new state-of-the-art ships due to...
Is CEIBA the Future of Shipping?
Shani Meintjes is a young South African volunteering in Costa Rica on a project very close to her heart, a project aimed at decreasing the impact of the vastly polluting cargo shipping industry. You...
Baltic Exchange Shipping Insights
VLCC
Charterers have not been under pressure in the ME Gulf as they have been drip-feeding enquiry into the market and this has led to rates easing, with CNOOC able to fix 270,000mt to China...
Ship Finance to Sell Jack-up, Three VLCCs for $78M
Ship Finance International (SFL +0.3%) agrees to sell its Soehanah jack-up drilling rig to an unnamed buyer and three very large crude carriers to ADS Crude Carriers for a combined $77.6M.
SFL says the sales...
Multitasking in a Very Critical Time Resulted in Vessel Grounding
Summary
Commencing sea passage towards Khor Fakkan, the master gave the conn to the duty navigational OOW, accompanied by an AB as a look-out. The master left the bridge. Once the required documents had been...