Olivier van der Kruijs shares his experiences from the audits on more than one hundred container vessels last year. The modern container ships are designed to increase capacity and also improve energy efficiency and environmental...

Energy sector had a thrashing of an 11-year low  which has sent many energy stocks, including shuttle tanker MLP KNOT Offshore Partners (NYSE:KNOP), falling to all-time lows and sending their yields sky-high -- in...

A Wellard-owned ship, the Ocean Outback, carrying thousands of cattle and sheep, spent the past two nights anchored off Fremantle because of mechanical problems with one of its two engines. The vessel is under charter...

Injured Crew Member Gets Immediate Medical Aid On Monday , the bulk carrier made an unplanned stop in Bermuda for medical assistance for a crew member who had broken both legs in an accident. The owners...

Vessel Grounding Off Papua Guinea Ends In Oil Spillage Incident : Vessel Grounding Vessel type : Passenger/Cargo Vessel Location : Near the Talele Island nature reserve in Papua New Guinea Casualties/Pollution : Oil spill The passenger/cargo vessel ran aground on a reef near...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Watch the Port Canaveral was jammed with both spectators and cruise ship passengers as, for the first time ever, six cruise ships tied up at the port’s docks. Cruise Ship Stats  Cruise Ship  Decks   Passengers Magic weighs   Feet...

The global shipping market has been fairly icy in 2015.  However the investors managed to overcome the chillness.  Let us see how hot has this year looked in this regard? The ClarkSea Index provides a...

2015 will go down as the toughest year in  the maritime industry of Nigeria. At the beginning of the year 2015, operators in the industry (especially the RORO port operations) were worried following the introduction...

Shell’s fleet of barges, to be built by Netherlands shipbuilder VEKA at a Polish yard, will have six-cylinder 20DF dual-fuel main engines from Wärtsilä for its propulsion. The fleet of 15 new LNG-fueled inland product...

Hiryū was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).  It was the only one ship of her class, a modified Soryu design.  Japanese word Hiryū means ‘Flying Dragon’. Hiryū took part in...