2 Year-Old Thai Girl Cryogenically Frozen
Two-year-old Thai girl Matheryn Naovaratpong is frozen cryogenically. Cryopreservation is a process where cells, whole tissues or any other substances susceptible to damage caused by chemical reactivity or time are preserved by cooling to...
NYK Joanna Rescued Drowning Fishermen
Seven fishermen set sail on September 30th in their fishing boat from Pangasinan. On 2nd October, inclement weather conditions caused their boat to overturn and sink leaving the seven fishermen adrift midsea. On the 3rd October, a...
Daring Rescue Operation By The Italian Coast Guards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0_MmEO7o4&feature=youtu.be
On 11th October, the merchant ship Catania-E was adrift having lost propulsion about 170 nautical miles off the coast of Sicily. The Ship’s Master, who had lost consciousness during rough weather, is being brought to...
Reduce Your Bunker Bills With Wartsila’s Solution
Wartsila Launches Ultra Slow Steaming Bulker Concept
In June 2015, Wärtsilä started a project called BUSSER – Ultra Slow Steaming Bulker Concept. This concept has been in vogue for some years now. Although contradictory, the...
Record Break In Container Cargo Volume
Port of Long Beach breaks September container cargo volume record.
Port of Long Beach sees tremendous growth as activities are returning to its pre-recession times. The port officials attribute this record to seasonal delivery of costumes...
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';...