In the Rhine port of Mannheim the water police were notified about a potential dangerous goods leakage on board the "Bitumina III", 1207 ts, on June 19, 2017, at 4.30 p.m. What happened? The ship...

IMO meeting gives importance to flashpoint and other safety implications IBIA contributed to a discussion at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) last week regarding the potential impact on ship safety associated with meeting demand for...

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is developing safe steering for the remote-monitored and controlled autonomous ships of the future. The new technology has been developed for navigation systems and ship autopilots, which steer...

This program covers vessel audit compliance procedures for cargo & ballast operations onboard oil tankers, and is based on repetitive observations by Vetting Inspectors while auditing vessels as per Chapter 8 of the SIRE...

Kedah police chief Datuk Asri Yusoff said in the latest case, a 47-year-old owner of a bunker fuel company from Sungai Petani claimed he was cheated by a fake bunker fuel supply company and...

Ship values are expected to face more downward pressure moving forward, especially when it comes to older vessels. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Intermodal noted that “the dry and the tanker shipping segments...

Large shipping losses have declined by 50 per cent over the past decade, largely driven by development of a more robust safety environment by ship-owners, a report said. There were 85 vessels reported as total...

In 2016, the international ship market was on a downtrend. Global trading volume of new ships declined by 67% YOY, and holding orders of global ship enterprises declined by 25% over 2015. Completion of...

Royal Caribbean’s Symphony of the Seas, the largest cruise ship ever built at 230,000 tons, touched water for the first time last week when the ship was floated out of dry dock at the...

In a news that shook the world, Seven sailors aboard the destroyer USS Fitzgerald were killed, and other crew members injured, when the warship collided with a cargo vessel off Japan. How did this happen? The...