A high-tech camera has been developed by Japan’s NYK Line and Monohakobi Technology Institute - that can “automatically photograph” the inside of a ship engine’s combustion chamber. Speed Read: Features of Kirari NINJA and its...

Vessel Type Container Ship Location At Sea Casualty None/ Major Engine Damage The Incident: The vessel was sailing in good weather.  There was a high lube oil temperature alarm during the UMS (Unmanned Machinery Space) period.  This alarm triggered a...

Wärtsilä provides complete lifecycle power solutions for the marine and energy markets.  Recently, they have won a contract with German-based M/s. Bernhard Schulte GmbH & Co. KG,  for retrofitting 11 of their container vessels...

Australia’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has come up with a world’s first autonomous robot, COTSBot that can seek and kill the crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS).  These COTS are posing as a threat to world’s...

Captain Ashok Mahapatra has taken the charge of new IMO Director, Maritime Safety Division.  He would be taking his position on 1st October 2015.  He started his career by joining Scindia Steam Navigation as...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMG1SdeYLFE&feature=youtu.be MK time-lapse from Hamburg, Germany have used their famed proprietary time-lapse cameras that can capture one 16mp frame every minute.  This camera was used over a period of 11 months of construction time to...

Accident : Collision. Date : 2nd September at 20:22 hours. Location : Mile marker 937, Mississippi River near Paducah, Kentucky. Oil Spillage : 250000 gallons of spilled into the river. Casualties : None. On Wednesday, two towboats collided resulting in nearly 250,000 gallons of clarified...

Event : Launch of Mobile App. Date : 27th August 2015. Place : The Grand Park Orchard in Singapore. Chief Guest : Head of Singtel satellite Group, Mr. Lim Kian Soon. A timely innovation by the company is their All-in-one SmartBox mobile...

Accident : Capsize Date : September 3rd, 2015 Vessel involved : MV. Zhe Pu 01833 Location : China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan Port Casualties : None The vessel reportedly lost engine power when it sailed close to China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan port.  The failed power caused it to lose propulsion thereby striking reef on...

Carnival Corporation has signed a €30million deal to build and operate its second private cruise terminal in the Port of Barcelona, one of the busiest cruise ports in the world. Construction of the new terminal...