Bulker Aground in Lake Superior Watch a video report on continuing efforts by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the World Maritime University (WMU) to promote the advancement of women in shipping.  It puts...

Threat Found Scrawled Inside Ship Docked at Naval Base San Diego On August 3, a brief security alert was triggered at Naval Base San Diego after a series of nearly three dozen bogus bomb threats...

Southeast Asia Indonesia: Armed robbers steal properties from tanker at Lubuk Gaung 27 July Six assailants armed with knives boarded a berthed product tanker at 0520 hrs local time at SDS Terminal at Lubuk Gaung port....

Floating Diesel Storage Becoming Viable in NWE Thanks to the combination of a wider market contango and depressed freight rates, there has been more enquiries for tankers to store diesel in northwest Europe. The last occasion...

New Welding Procedure Helps to Avoid Drydocking Whittaker Engineering, an independent Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) company, has developed a unique water-backed welding procedure for vessels which can save companies millions of pounds from the...

Tokyo – ClassNK has just released the latest version of its design support software PrimeShip-HULL (HCSR) Ver.3.5.0., developed in response to the IACS Common Structural Rules for Bulk Carriers and Oil Tankers (CSR BC...

Swash Buckling Female Pirates? By Frederick Hedenberg I'm rarely surprised by something I had given little or no thought to.  This happened recently when a reader asked me if I thought a blog on female pirates...

A large merchant vessel pulled up anchor at Qingyuan Port (now Ningbo City) in Zhejiang Province of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and left on a voyage to the Port of Hakata (now Fukuoka) in...

Shipping Wakes up to the New Digital Age The analysis and collection of big data are becoming the ‘oil of 21st century’ for the maritime industry.  This accentuates the widening spread of data flows from...

Tankers: Charterers take center stage ahead of pure ship owners, actively managing tanker fleet Lower charter rates are forcing a change regarding the commercial management of the fleet. Shipbroker Charles R. Weber observed that charterers...