The global shipping market has been fairly icy in 2015.  However the investors managed to overcome the chillness.  Let us see how hot has this year looked in this regard? The ClarkSea Index provides a...

2015 will go down as the toughest year in  the maritime industry of Nigeria. At the beginning of the year 2015, operators in the industry (especially the RORO port operations) were worried following the introduction...

Shell’s fleet of barges, to be built by Netherlands shipbuilder VEKA at a Polish yard, will have six-cylinder 20DF dual-fuel main engines from Wärtsilä for its propulsion. The fleet of 15 new LNG-fueled inland product...

Hiryū was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).  It was the only one ship of her class, a modified Soryu design.  Japanese word Hiryū means ‘Flying Dragon’. Hiryū took part in...

Pacific Eden, dubbed "floating disaster ship" and described as ‘worse than a one-star motel' by holidaymakers had returned to Sydney on Monday after a serious sanitation session.  Pacific Eden was disinfected at White Bay...

New Scientist staff have teamed up with Rajiv Jalan at the Institute for Liver and Digestive Health at University College London Medical School (UCLMS) to investigate (DRY January) the benefits of  giving up alcohol for a...

Tim Berners-Lee of Switzerland had on 20 December 1990 turned on the world’s first website.  The site was used internally by CERN scientists until the whole server was opened up to anyone with an...

The ship designers are hard at work to boost the fuel efficiency of the industry and help ship owners meet upcoming environmental regulations. GE Marine and Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC) obtained Lloyd’s Register’s (LR)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Accident : Explosion Vessel Type : Bulk carrier Date : 28th December 2015 Location : Near the port of Paranaguá Casualties/Pollution : Nil The bulk carrier suffered an explosion on Monday.  The reports state that on Monday afternoon the vessel was loaded with 65,000...

A Filipino Seafarer who was working on a vessel escaped an accident where he fell overboard from a ship berthed at Britain’s biggest container port.  Colleagues working nearby threw a lifebuoy with which he...