Is Your Ship Bunkering LNG At Rotterdam? Avail Discounts

The Dutch port of Rotterdam is to offer a 10% discount on gross seaport dues to vessels bunkering LNG.  A total of EUR 1.5 million (USD 1.6 million) has been reserved by the port...

Eagle LNG To Provide Fuel For New Ships

Eagle LNG Partners (Eagle LNG) will build a natural gas liquefaction plant (LNG plant) offering a capacity of 200,000 gallons per day (87,000 gallons per day initially) in Jacksonville because Crowley Puerto Rico Services,...

[World-Record] UASC Loads 18,601 TEU On Board

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be The ‘Green Shipping Award’ winner UASC has done a record-breaking load of 18,601 TEU on board its containership Al-Muraykh.  Al-Muraykh is one of the three greenest ships owned by UASC. Watch the video featuring the...

The Shipwreck That Shook America

The S.S. Eastland widely known as the "Speed Queen of the Great Lakes" was a passenger ship based in Chicago and used for tours. On 24th July, 1915, the Eastland and two other Great Lakes...

Maersk To Deliver A Billion Toys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Maersk Line published a video in which it had committed to deliver one billion to the homes of children well in time for the Christmas celebrations. Maersk Line takes the responsibility of delivering goods on...

[Update] 6 Still Missing In The Singapore Strait Collision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be A bunker freighter sank after it collided with a chemical tanker in the Singapore Strait.  The reports stated that only 6 crew members out of 12 have been rescued while the search for the other...

Radio Frequency Sensors to Make Diesel Engines Greener!

Emission regulations are getting tighter every day and marine industry is no exception to this.  A few years ago students from MIT invented a Filter Sensing Technology (FST) sensor that uses Radiofrequency (RF) signals...

Car Crash Kills Two

Unexpected car crash killed fiance and mom of a new mother In only three hours after her delivery, Crystal Matrau-Belt heard the tragic news -- the death of her fiance Emil Skokan III and her...

Wärtsilä Secures Order For Three Mega Container Vessels

Three 'mega-class' container vessels being built for French ship owner CMA CGM at the HHIC-Phil yard in Subic Bay, Philippines have selected Wärtsilä's Nacos Platinum Integrated Navigation Automation Control System based on an Ethernet-based...

New Panel To Address Cyber Safety Concerns

IACS Council establishes cyber panel to address cyber system integrity The International Association of Classifications Societies (IACS) has announced its cyber initiative among decisions agreed during 72nd meeting of IACS Council in support of industry...