First of Its Kind Crew Care Initiative To Combat COVID Scare
At a time when a raging pandemic is making life hell for everyone, the healthcare of seafarers working for months in ships without any leave is becoming a critical issue, yet nobody is concerned...
MSC Set To Transform Its Global Communications System
MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company has selected 8×8 to transform its global communications onto a single cloud platform, says a press release published on their website.
MSC deploying the 8×8 platform
MSC has selected 8×8 to transform...
Methanol To Be the Ultimate ‘Bridge’ Marine Fuel After IMO Approval
According to a Ship Insight article, the long-awaited formal adoption of interim guidelines on ethyl/methyl alcohol fuels by IMO Maritime Safety Committee provides genuine alternative for 2030 compliance and beyond has finally happened.IMO Decision...
How Robots Are Assisting Human-To-Human Contact in the Pandemic
With the pandemic cutting off people, coronavirus patients are having a hard time living alone in the hospital battling the virus which is draining them both mentally and physically. Now, an ingenious solution of...
Yangzijiang Secures Newbuild Orders Worth $1.03bn
Yangzijiang seals 10 boxship shipbuilding contracts with an unnamed Japanese owner for the construction, reports Splash 247.
Vessel contracts
Singapore-listed Chinese private shipbuilder Yangzijiang Shipbuilding has sealed shipbuilding contracts with an unnamed Japanese owner for the...
[Watch] Typhoon Wrecks Havoc, Leaves 39 Dead, 22 Missing
A week and a half after the Philippines suffered a deadly hit from a super typhoon, another storm battered the country overnight into Thursday, cutting power to millions and leaving at least 39 dead...
Wärtsilä and Fincantieri Continue Work on Cruise Ship Solutions
Wärtsilä works with Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri for the supply of broad range of solutions to be installed in a number of cruise ships currently being built by the yard.
The latest orders are...
Bunker Demands Back at Pre-pandemic Levels
Very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) production climbed to six-month highs this week as demand for the shipping fuel at most ports are back at pre-pandemic levels, says an article published in MarineLink.
Pre-pandemic levels...
Cargo Ship Beached By Typhoon
A cargo vessel hit the seawall of a mall in Pasay City due to strong typhoon winds, Maritime Bulletin.
What happened?
Cargo Ship Peter Roenna hit the seawall of a mall in Pasay City due to...
USCG Approves Knutsen’s Ballast Water Treatment System
KBAL, the ballast water treatment system developed in house by Norwegian tanker operator Knutsen, is the latest system to be given USCG type-approval.
The USCG approval covers systems with 400 and 3,000m3/h flow...