Ships constructed on or after January 1, 2016 and entering into the North American or U.S. Caribbean Emission Control Areas (ECA) must comply with the Tier III NOx requirement of MARPOL Annex VI, Chapter...

Every year there would be various interesting statistics presented by different organizations based on their research.  One such interesting statistics is about the number of deficiencies which caused ships to get detained in the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be A passenger has captured a video where a tug collides with a passenger vessel at the port of Mar del Plata in Argentina  Ten children and one woman were reportedly injured in this incident. Check...

Special Reward For Vessels With Green Award Certification DYNAMARINe will provide a 5% discount on its services to Green Award certified ships starting from the 1st January, 2016. Green Award certifies ships that are extra clean...

The Harry Potter Author has paid a whopping sum of £22million to Hollywood star Johnny Depp for buying his luxury yacht. Depp named it Vajoliroja after Depp’s former partner Vanessa Paradis and their children Lily-Rose...

NOAA archaeologists say they've located a 144-year-old Arctic shipwreck, and climate change may have been the unlikely hero in making this discovery possible. A total of 33 whaling ships sank into the Chukchi Sea, northwest...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Accident : Collision Vessel type : General Cargo Ship Location : Eider river in Kiel Canal Casualties/Pollution : Nil A cargo ship collided with the transporter bridge at Eider river in Kiel Canal.  According to the reports, the duty officer missed the...

The colossal leak near the Los Angeles suburb of Porter Ranch has released tens of thousands of kilograms of methane gas. In late October, Natural gas had been spewing out at a rate of up...

On thursday after 9 p.m. five men at a Brooklyn playground  took turns raping the 18-year-old woman at the playground operated by the New York City Parks Department in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. New...

Accident : Vessel grounding Date : 10th January 2016 Vessel type : Cargo ship Crew on board : 18 Location : Off the coast of Yamagata prefecture in northeast Japan Casualties : None Pollution : Not reported A Panama-flagged Cargo ship ran aground off the coast of Yamagata...