Dry Bulk: Q4 Provided Optimism, Q1 Don’t Get Carried Away
Dry Bulk Shipping: Q4 provided optimism, Q1 will make sure we don’t get carried away
Iron ore provides 30% of the demand for the dry bulk market and, during 2016, its related tonne-mile demand went...
Carnival Turning Cruise Ships into Floating ‘Smart Cities’ at Sea
Leisure travel colossus Carnival Corporation put a spin on technology used at Disney World to turn cruise ships into what it bills as smart cities at sea.
Carnival introduced an "Ocean Medallion" last week designed...
Baltic Dry Index Plunges on Evaporating Shipping Demand
The BDI has plunged since the start of China’s Lunar New Year holiday as demand to ship raw materials into the world’s largest commodities consumer has dried up. The BDI fell to 800 points...
[Watch] Sailor Fell Fourteen Metres Inside a Cargo Hold
Two men have been seriously injured after they fell fourteen metres inside a cargo ship near Port Alma.
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Mother ‘Told to Prove Lactation’ at Frankfurt Airport
A woman has filed a complaint with German police alleging she was told to squeeze her breast at airport security to prove she was lactating.
Gayathiri Bose told the BBC she was "humiliated" by the...
Martha Fatigue Report is Launched at the IMO
InterManager, the trade association for in-house and third party ship managers, together with The Warsash Maritime Academy, has presented the findings of its fatigue study, Project MARTHA, to The International Maritime Organization (IMO).
Speaking at...
Fire on Arrested Cargo Ship at Port Vladivostok
General cargo ship Yeruslan is on fire at the off-harbour anchorage of port Vladivostok, an eyewitness reports. Reports say that the ship, which is currently located in the water area of the Amur Bay,...
Innovation Garage to Challenge the Boundaries of IT Innovation
Dualog, one of the world's leading providers of ship-to-shore data communications services, is challenging the boundaries of smart thinking in the shipping industry by launching a company that aims to change the way software...
Engine Blackout Runs Container Ship Aground, Kiel Canal Blocked
On Jan 31, by midnight a container ship "Elbsailor" suffered an engine blackout and ran into the embankment close to the ferry pt. Schacht-Audorf during the Eastbound transit of the Kiel Canal. The Kiel...
Cargo Ship Scrap-Trades on the Irish Sea
Lady Adriane berthed at Wicklow Port this morning in the wake of another short-sea trader, the 89m Bounder which at the weekend was loaded with scrap metal, writes Jehan Ashmore.
It was a busy scene...