On June 19, a Romanian pilot died after falling from the bridge located on the wing deck. What happened? The 60 year Romanian pilot was guiding the ship ‘Hamoudi B’ into the port when he fell...

Eleven people died following the collision of a catamaran with a cargo barge in the Volga river, about 250 meters from the riverbank, on Monday evening. Five people were rescued, three of whom were...

3D printing is the future of the shipping industry and it's going to take up the shipping sector by a storm, reports Ships & Ports. The coming decade will witness 3D printing decimating the...

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We had earlier reported that we had subjected the scrapings from seized fuel pumps of vessels using the Houston area bunkers to FTIR analysis. We noted the presence of large quantities of acids and...

The ConTex (Container Ship Time Charter Assessment Index) has been published by the Hamburg Shipbrokers’ Association (VHSS) since October 2007. In May 2010 the Index has been expanded and renamed to New ConTex. The...

The Deutsche Bank a major portion of its non-performing ship loan portfolio, with face value of $1 billion to Oak Hill Advisors and Varde investors, reports Reuters. Return to transport lending Over the years, the bank...

NYK-operated Taharoa Destiny, a vessel dedicated to the transport of ironsand slurry,* was recently awarded the Meteorological Agency’s Director-General Award for the contribution the ship has made to meteorological business development by observing marine...

Unlike vehicles and power plants, cargo ships remain conveniently out of sight to most of us. Yet shipping is the linchpin of our modern economy, moving about 90 percent of all globally traded goods,...

On June 18, Osaka was rocked by a strong earthquake that hit the western coast of Japan but bunkering operations at the port were not affected. What happened? In the early hours of June 18, Osaka...