Fuel-Centric Designs For Futuristic Ships
There is a growing need to run ships more efficiently and sustainably. The giant container ships used the huge two-stroke diesels, a combined gas and steam turbine and now, electric drive to the propeller.
The...
Videotel’s Training Covers 10 Million Training Events
Videotel’s Training Covers 10 Million Training Events in 12,000 Vessels Worldwide
Videotel, a company of KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI), is the leading international provider of e-Learning maritime training and software solutions. It is in...
Product Tankers Collide In The Arctic
Accident
: Collision
Date
: 12th November 2015
Vessels Involved
: Svyatoy Petr and Svyatoy Pavel
Location
: The Laptev Sea, north of Russia
Casualties/Pollution
: Nil
The two small clean product tankers involved in a collision when they proceeded in an ice convoy...
Use Data Analytics to Improve Shipboard Operations and Energy Efficiency.
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Marine Maintenance is not anymore a separate aspect of shipping as it was in...
Coffee Drinkers Can Have Long Life
A new study suggests that people who drink a lot of coffee have lower rates of death
Research revealed that people who drank 1 to 3 cups of coffee a day had 6% to 8%...
Be Watchful! Your Fumigated Cargo Hold Can Explode
Are you aware of fumigation?
Fumigation is is a method of pest control that completely fills an area with gaseous pesticides or fumigants to suffocate or poison the pests within. There are different method to...
[Watch] Collision of Ships on River Crossing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be
“Wec van Ruysdael" crashes into "Paula" on starboard side and steering to hard to port..
Watch the collision in the bolbous bow. The collision lasted for about 0:05 secs. The yaw of the WEC Line ship...
Paris Attacks: Commemoration With A Minute’s Silence
A minute of silence has been held across Europe to commemorate the victims of Friday's attacks.
Background:
On November 13th, 2015, a series of terrorist attacks occurred in Paris. The deadliest of those attacks took place at...
Elektrans Shipping Expands Its Fleet
Mumbai-based Elektrans Shipping (formerly Doehle Danautic) has announced the acquisition of Japanese-built 149,834dwt suezmax tanker Distya Akula, co-owned with Arya Industries.
The 1995-built tanker which is to be flagged in India brings the company’s fleet...
Stena Germanica To Get The Second Methanol Engine
By next month, Stena Rederi is to convert a second engine to methanol fuelled ro-pax Stena Germanica. Stena hopes to have all four engines converted for methanol in the beginning of 2016. The conversion...