IMO is authorised under MARPOL Annex VI to establish ECAs where vessels have to control and reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulphur oxides (SOx).  Currently there are four ECAs, comprising the Baltic Sea, the...

Battle To Save A Cargo Ship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Nine crew members are missing after their boat sank off the coast in stormy conditions. Rescue workers are also involved in an operation to save 14 sailors from another...

The Greatest Marine Horrors On Record Accident type : Collision Vessels involved : PS Lady Elgin and schooner Augusta Location : Lake Michigan Date : September 8, 1860 Casualties : About 300 lives VESSEL INFORMATION: Name : PS Lady Elgin Built : 1851 Class & type : Sidewheel steamer - passengers...

Hong Kong’s economy owes a great deal to the container port industry.  The combined midstream services of Hong Kong terminal operators (Hutchison Port Holdings Trust — HIT, COSCO-HIT, Asia Container Terminals) have achieved 200...

Rotterdam Maasvlakte II terminal set a loading record last month on the Madison Maersk with 17,152 TEU loaded, including ten high above deck stowage.  APM Terminals has released the drone footage of the remotely-controlled...

On November 2, Alice Oldendorff, Portuguese-flagged bulk carrier (owned by Oldendorff Carriers of Lübeck) was sailing from Canada to New York when a Ukrainian sailor on board complained of severe stomach pain. It was...

In Finland, Hanasaari coal power plant at central and Salmisaari power plants at Helsinki produce roughly 50% of the heat in the entire region, which spews out two million tonnes of  the carbon emissions...

American Petroleum Tankers (APT) had placed orders for five tankers with the General Dynamics NASSCO.  The first ‘ECO’ tanker was named ‘the Lone Star State’ by the ship’s sponsor, Mrs. Helen Downs with the...

Sanmar Shipyards in Turkey has signed a Letter of Intent for the supply of an extensive range of propulsion units over the next three years from Caterpillar Marine.  It confirms Caterpillar Marine’s position as...

A Product tanker collided with a fishing vessel, southeast of Quanzhou, Taiwan Strait. Accident type : Collision Vessels involved : Hu You 8  and Min Shi Yu Location : Southeast of Quanzhou, Taiwan Strait. Casualties : 1 crew of fishing boat injured. Oil spill :...