The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore has issued notices for the attention of the shipping community on the importance to recognise the dangers of conducting barbecue parties for social events onboard ships. Recently, many incidents...

Have you seen a ship standing on its legs? Here it is for you! the offshore wind turbine installation vessel Brave tern jacked up to a height of 70 meters on its 5,300 ton capacity...

Thanks to multiple factors headed by the fall in demand of China for commodities, the shipping industry particularly the bulk carriers and container vessels are getting hit to unprecedented levels.  There are bankruptcies galore as...

French Offshore vessel attacked off Nigeria on Tuesday. An anchor handling tug and supply vessel was attacked off the coast of Nigeria on tuesday.  The pirates held two of the crewmen, one Nigerian national and...

Incident : Vessel Adrift Vessel type : Container ship Location : Yucatan Channel on 35 nautical miles west off Cuba Casualties/Pollution : Nil The container ship experienced an engine failure and got black out.  Hence, it was forced to anchor off Cuba’s...

Containerized LNG-fueled generators for cold-ironing gets a grant in excess of a million euros. A latest system to provide clean power for ships at ports is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Transport.  This...

Evac Launches Electrochemical Wastewater Treatment Adhering to the MARPOL requirements for waste management, EVAC - The supplier of complete water and wastewater management systems has launched a plant to treat wastewater.  Its new electrochemical wastewater...

Australia’s most powerful icebreaker Aurora Australis remains aground in Antarctica near Mawson station.   Around 3.15pm on wednesday the vessel broke free from its mooring lines due to heavy snow storm and ran aground at West Arm...

10 Biggest Ships Ever Built We all know about the Titanic and how that went, but surprisingly, the Titanic isn’t even among the 10 biggest ships ever built.  Although it had a record size at...

Professor Theo Notteboom of Port Economics has released an infographic chart highlighting the top 15 EU ports with its performance comparison. Highlights: The Port of Rotterdam tops the list moving over 12.2 million TEU in 2015. Next...