New Marine Fuel Requirements Boost Newbuilding Ordering Activity
Things are heating up again in the newbuilding ordering market, despite the relative slowdown over the course of the past few weeks, which was deemed as a mainstay, at least until the end of...
Nautical Institute’s Ice Navigator Accreditation Standard
Members are advised that at the start of July the Nautical Institute launched its Ice Navigator Scheme. This scheme is designed to help meet the demand for properly trained officers with the skills and...
MOL Gets Certified for Energy Management Systems
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. announced that on July 20, its core dry-cargo ship management company, MOL Ship Management Co., Ltd. (MOLSHIP; President: Toshikazu Inaoka; headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo) received a new certification of its Environmental...
“Silk Road” a Pipe Dream
The idea, at first, sounded good: Plow trillions of dollars into infrastructure projects in the barren wasteland that is most of central Asia, and trade will start to bloom, economies will prosper, and peace...
[Watch] Maersk – World’s Biggest Ship
The team at Discovery follows the construction of the world's largest ever container ship as they push engineering boundaries to deliver the first Triple-E on time. This exciting preview gives a glimpse into the...
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Dry Bulk Shipping Consolidation is Coming
By Surinder Brrar
With the key challenges to the Dry Bulk Shipping industry not easing up it now seems to me inevitable that consolidation is coming. In fact I think it is already happening, in very,...
Verification Procedure for “in-use” Fuel Oil Samples
China has put forth a proposal to apply sulphur verification procedure to samples taken from ships prescribed by MARPOL Annex VI for the representative fuel oil sample taken at the time of delivery.
The proposal...
Fitter Struck by a Falling Hook Block of a Monorail Transverse Hoist
Hong Kong Merchant of Shipping issued a note, informing about an accident that occurred on board a Hong Kong registered container vessel, during which a fitter was seriously injured by a falling hook block...
[Watch] 100 Ton Runaway Ship Barrels Down Sacramento River
A 100 ton ship which was used by the homeless people broke from its reins and started floating in the Sacramento river.
What happened?
The vessel named ‘Saint Joseph’ was shrimp vessel and was sold to...