The U.S. dry bulk market will face a shortfall of vessels in a few years of time unless owners of this type of vessel can persuade the U.S. Coast Guard that bulkers face a...

A man will front court on Tuesday accused of raping a woman on a cruise ship off Queensland. The 33-year-old man was arrested on Monday when P&O Cruises' Pacific Aria docked at Brisbane's Portside Wharf...

The habitat of North Atlantic right whale extends from Nova Scotia to Georgia. To the delight of whale conservationists, it was only in the second week of April 2017 that a total of 206...

Land or maritime transport? Court rules on transport of goods from ship to unloading area On June 29 2016 the Supreme Court applied the previous International Merchant Shipping Act 1949 to establish which party was...

There are 130 Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) firefighters here trained to fight marine fires. This after the SCDF took over such duties from the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) in April 2012. Lieutenant Keave Soh,...

The container shipping industry is benefitting from a better balance of demand for container shipping and vessel supply, but the performance of the new ocean carrier alliance groupings that took effect at the beginning...

In the present market, there is abundance of tonnage for sale and the transactions are moving at an increasing pace. In this process, Klaveness can assist in rating and benchmarking tonnage, and further assist...

Shipping is bound for a “seismic” shift in terms of fuel supply for the global fleet, from 2020 onwards. While this is, on its own merit, a major event, it could also trigger a...

Iver Ships, the tanker subsidiary of Belgium’s Vroon, has sold two 2007-built MR tankers – Iver Express and Iver Example – to UK-based Union Maritime for a price Clarksons Research lists as around $16.75m...

While transport ships may not put a premium on looks, they still have to get painted like any other boat. The German firm Hapag-Lloyd shows what it takes for their Quebec Expressto get a...