Peru And Panama Added As New Members Of Tokyo MOU

Putrajaya, Malaysia hosted the 26th meeting of the Port State Control Committee.  It was held between 5th and 8th October.  The Tokyo MOU was concluded in December 1993 and came into operation in April 1994.  It has...

Hong Kong Shipping Register Crosses 100 Million Tonnage

The Hong Kong Shipping Register (HKSR) set up on December 3, 1990, with a Gross Tonnage of 6 million at the time, is the fourth largest ship register in the world. It had passed the...

Shippers Prefer LNG To Power Their Vessels

Last month TOTE Inc., a shipper that operates between the U.S. and the Caribbean, launched the World’s second massive container ship fuelled by liquefied natural gas.  The first was launched four months earlier by...

Problem Fuels Supplied In Russian Ports

In the last 3 months, 4 cases of problems fuels causing damage to machinery have been reported.  These fuels have been bunkered in the ports of Nakhodka, Vladivostok, Slavyanka and Vostochny. The problems appear similar...

World Requires More LNG Bunkers at Ports

Jacob Høgh Thygesen, Director, Merchant Ship Design Solutions with Wärtsilä opines that making available LNG fuel bunkers at ports is a prime necessity.  According to him "LNG bunkering is no longer 'nice to have';...

London Metal Exchange Propose to Buyout Baltic Exchange

The LME has approached the Baltic Exchange for a takeover bid. The Baltic Exchange is the world's only independent source of maritime market information for the trading and settlement of physical and derivative shipping contracts....

World’s First Guide For SOx Scrubber Ready Vessels

Classification society ABS has come up with the world’s first guide for SOx scrubber ready vessels.  This comes at a time when more emphasis is laid on greener or zero emission technologies in the...

Most Modern Icebreaker To Use Wärtsilä 31 Engines

Guinness World Records have acknowledged Wärtsilä 31 engine as the world’s most efficient 4-stroke diesel engine.  It will power a state-of-the-art new generation icebreaker being built on behalf of FSUE Atomflot, of ROSATOM, the...

Sprinkler Pipe Leak Puts Ferry Out of Service

Finnish ferry was forced out of service after water from a faulty sprinkler pipe damaged around 90 of the vessel’s cabins. October 10, Finnish ferry M/S Mariella operated by Viking Line faced a sprinkler pipe...

[Video] Madison Maersk Sets Record With 17,152 TEUs Onboard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0_MmEO7o4&feature=youtu.be The Maersk Triple E containers comprise a family of Very Large Containerships. Recently, Madison Maersk, a Triple E class vessel, has set a record load of 17,152 Teus onboard the ship at the Port of...