LNG Bunkering Set to Witness Steady Growth Despite Odds

As the marine industry gears up for stricter environmental regulations, particularly the upcoming 2020 global sulfur cap, attention turned once again to prospects for LNG as a marine fuel, with attendees of an LNG...

Shell to Fuel World’s First LNG-powered Aframax Oil Tankers

A unit of Royal Dutch Shell will fuel the world’s first LNG-powered Aframax crude oil tankers under a deal signed with Russian shipping company SCF Group (Sovcomflot). Shippers are looking to liquefied natural gas (LNG)...

Shipping Container Price Spike Points to Global Trade Growth

Prices for shipping containers, the metal boxes that carry 90 percent of the world's manufactured goods, have risen to their highest since October 2015, a clear indicator that seaborne trade is increasing and should...

CMA CGM Rolls Out OCEAN Alliance Services for Maritime Clients

French container shipping company CMA CGM Group has launched 40 new maritime services under its OCEAN Alliance operational coalition, which was announced in April last year. CMA CGM will provide 119 of the 323 ships...

Passengers Pray as Huge Cargo Ship Collides

Passengers filmed the shocking moment a large cargo ship rammed into a small boat before it sunk. The crash on Nicaragua's Escondido River was caught on camera as the smaller boat, called Captain D, was...

Ship Hijacked Moved to an Undisclosed Location Off the Somali Coast

Pirates who hijacked an Indian cargo dhow with 11 crew members onboard have moved the vessel to an undisclosed location off the Somali coast until their ransom demands are met. What happened? The vessel, Al Kausar,...

Cargo Ship Catches Fire Off Colombo Coast

The Indian Navy sent two ships to help a cargo vessel which had caught fire off the coast of Colombo. What happened? On Tuesday, a fire broke out on merchant ship MV-Daniela, which was traced at...

ABB to Acquire B&R

Shaping leadership in industrial automation Acquisition of B&R (Bernecker + Rainer Industrie-Elektronik GmbH) will close ABB’s historic gap in machine and factory automation Creating a uniquely comprehensive automation portfolio for customers globally B&R is...

Shaking Liquefies Iron Ore! Did it Sink the Giant Vessel?

Over the weekend a tragedy had reportedly unfolded suddenly in the South Atlantic rocked the shipping world. What happened? The Stellar Daisy, a bulk carrier roughly the size as 100 tennis courts, sunk on route from...

First Time Ever Woman Captain of NYK Ship

Woman Made Captain of NYK Ship for First Time Ever For the first time in its 132 year history, Japan’s largest shipping company Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, known as NYK Line, has promoted a female...