Container Owners Meeting In Hamburg

COA Meeting In Hamburg The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Container Owners Association (COA) will be conducted at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Hamburg on Monday 16th November, on the eve of the Intermodal...

Oil Prices Dips Due to Surplus

Lower Consumption Causes Surplus And Dips Oil Prices The global supply imbalance is getting worse.  So, oil futures prices (WTI) plunged 12.5% this week from $47.90 on Friday, November 3 to $41.96 this morning Wednesday,...

IRI Opens A New Office In Manila For RMI

IRI (International Registries and its affiliates) has opened an office in Manila for Marshall Islands Registry staffed by four personnel who have a background of working with respect to ship and crew management.  IRI’s...

Make Relationship Blossom And Not Wither

Dr. Randi is a relationship therapist who in the free advice e-newsletter, Heroic Love, gives 14 point formula for a stable marriage based on over 100,000 face-to-face hours counseling singles and couples over her...

Wrecked Bulker To Form An Artificial Reef

The damaged Mexican bulk carrier Will Be Sunk To Form An Artificial Reef Off Mexico The Mexican bulk carrier Los Llanitos fell victim to the Hurricane Patricia, which hit the Mexico’s Pacific coast on October...

[Watch] The Assembly Of The International Space Station

November 2nd, 2015, marks the 15th anniversary of one of the greatest engineering feats in human history. The International Space Station (ISS) has been orbiting 400 kilometres above the Earth since 1998, but a rotating...

Container Ship Collides With Fenders in Antwerp

MSC Gemma Collides With Fenders In Antwerp Accident : Collision Vessel Involved : MSC Gemma Location : Zandvliet Lock in Antwerp, Belgium Casualties/Pollution : Nil Vessel Info: Length : 279.00 m Beam : 40.00 m Draft : 9.00 m Deadweight : 67,566 DWT Gross tonnage : 66,289 GRT Built at : Samsung Shipbuilding & Heavy Industries in their shipyard in...

[Watch] Triple E Maersk Arriving Among Gale Force Winds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be On 13th November 2015, around noon, the 18,270 TEU Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller arrived among the gale force winds.  The winds were blowing at a speed of 44 knots, the ship arrived at the Port...

A Courageous Woman Helps Victims In Paris Terror Attack

Terrorists attacked Paris leaving 1127 dead and many more injured.  In one of the sites, a heroic woman Margarida Sousa who lived opposite the Paris Theatre (Bataclan Theater) welcomed the seriously wounded into her...

Barge Stuck Under Railway Bridge

Barge Stuck Under Kaniampuzha Railway Bridge A barge ferrying sulphur to FACT Udyogamandal got stuck beneath the Kaniampuzha railway bridge during early hours on Saturday when it rammed into the column base that was invisible...