Rescue Helicopter Crashed Into The Sea Off Taiwan
A rescue helicopter was assisting the cargo ship which ran aground off Taiwan but unexpectedly crashed into the sea with five people on board.
According to the reports, a container ship ran aground off...
A Step-by-step Guide To Make Your Vessel Energy Efficient
Greetings readers!
Hope you all have read my first blog on energy efficiency.
In case if you have missed it, please click here to read it.
So here is my second blog on energy efficiency.
Before we come back and...
[Watch] The Largest Cruise Ship At Sea Trials
The Harmony of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, has left the construction site for sea trials. Can you guess the length of the ship?
It is 361m - almost 100m longer than...
Retrofitting Ship Can Slash Fuel Use By 25%
Hamburg-based shipowner Hammonia Reederei and Intermarine, a charterer from New Orleans has enabled the retrofit of three sister vessels with multiple efficiency technologies and revenue-sharing collaboration between the charterer and the owner. Carbon War...
World’s Biggest Cruise Ship Tests The Waters
The World’s biggest cruise ship, Harmony of the Seas, has left from Saint-Nazaire, western France, for its three-day sea trials on Thursday.
The STX Shipyard started with the construction of the vessel in September 2013 for...
Grounded Ship Towed To Safety Off Malta
A ship moored at Barriera Wharf was assisted by tugs and pilots after grounding.
The Vessel Traffic Service Of Malta received a report yesterday at 12.24pm about the vessel grounding. The authorities immediately responded and...
SKF Debuts New Tank Skimming Equipment
A high performance and quick to install device for oil and water separations in marine applications has been introduced by SKF. This is a newly launched mechanical device of SKF, for the fast and...
DSME To Cut 12,000 Jobs By 2019
Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering CEO Jung Sung-Leep announced that the company plans to cut 12,000 positions as a part of restructuring efforts.
Speed-Read:
The firm posted massive losses of $4 billion for FY2015.
The personnel reductions...
Fall In Life Expectancy Of Bulk Carriers
A number of bulk carriers have been scrapped so far this year than in all of 2014 as the commodity market slumps down. Twenty-nine capesize vessels with an average age of 21.4 years have...
World’s Most Expensive City To Live In – Guess Which?
Singapore - The World’s Most Expensive City
Singapore retains the World's Most Expensive City title for the third time in a row as per Economist Intelligence Unit's 2016 Worldwide Cost of Living survey. The annual...