Airglide Air Lubrication Systems

Airglide Air Lubrication Systems from Shipwright LLC are tailor-made and customized for vessels specific needs using world-class, leading-edge computational fluid dynamics software. Airglide designs are tested, calibrated, optimized, and verified in Shipwright’s proprietary, full-scale Boundary...

Integration is the Watchword at SMM

As is true with any industry segment, shipping can take integration of various organised systems to new levels with ingenuity and bravery to invest.  Fleet operations can be integrated with onboard activities, e-navigation, ship...

Industry Collaboration Helps Oceanographers Study Climate

As a part of a major collaboration between the industry and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), measuring devices are being installed on a cargo ship.  These will provide oceanographers with vital data on the...

[Watch] 10 Ships Broke Loose Due to Typhoon

Typhoon Meranti Snaps Cables of a Ship Under Construction Crashed Vessels drift from cable equipment at Kaohsiung harbour Bulker Aground in Lake Superior Typhoon Meranti termed as the strongest typhoon since 2010 battered Taiwan has finally...

ClassNK to Host Floating Offshore Wind Round Table Event

ClassNK, Japan’s leading international certification and classification society, will host a round table discussion about floating wind technologies on the sidelines of Wind Energy Hamburg (WEH) on 26 September. “ClassNK is one of the world’s...

[Watch] Strong Winds Tear Away a Giant 14000 TEU Cargo Ship From Its Moorings

Bulker Aground in Lake Superior Strong winds of Super Typhoon Meranti left a trail of destructions across much of southern Taiwan on Wednesday.  Watch an amazing footage showing a giant container ship, which appears...

Debt-ridden Shipping Industry

The global decline in oil prices has led to decline in sponsorship and ineffective enactment to apply the Cabotage law, among various other challenges has affected the fortunes of Nigerian ship owners resulting in...

Are the U.S.-Bound Ships Being Held “Hostage”?

A lawyer for Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd, the failed South Korean container carrier, said on Thursday that an U.S bound vessel was held "hostage" for disputes over payments, adding to the struggles in getting...

Virginia Beach Museum brings together Shipwrecks and Shakespeare

A new exhibit at the Old Coast Guard Station promotes the widely accepted theory that one of William Shakespeare’s last plays, “The Tempest,” was partly inspired by the wreck of a ship bound for...

Large Scale Real-time Vessel Inspection for Maersk

BMT Partners with Maersk for New Online Vessel Inspection Tool In partnership with Maersk, BMT Surveys (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group, has developed an online Marine Application for survey, Trend Evaluation and reporting (MATE) platform,...