Budapest Cruise Accident Captain Has a History! Arrested Before in Separate Accident
The captain of a river cruise ship involved in a deadly collision last week with a smaller pleasure boat in Budapest is already under investigation over another accident in April, according to Hungarian prosecutors,...
Afro-Americans Heal As They Gather To Hear the Last Slave Ship Story: Clotilda
According to a National Geographic article by JOEL K. BOURNE, JR., hope swirled through the packed gymnasium of the aptly named Robert Hope Community Center in the Africatown neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama, last month,...
Maersk Implements Digital Certificates for Seafarers
According to an article published in the Maritime Digitalisation and Communications, AP Moller-Maersk is leading a pilot project to test using digital certificates for seafarers on one of their container ships.
About the digital certificates project
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Total Marine Fuels Shows How To Prepare for IMO 2020
According to a Platts article, the global bunker supplier Total Marine Fuels Global Solutions has announced that they have successfully conducted several trials of their 0.5% sulfur fuel oil with shipowners at key ports...
Cruise Ship Employees Reveal 7 Most Annoying Things Passengers Do
For some cruise ship workers, interacting with passengers can be a blessing and a curse. Mark Matousek writes about the experience of 39 current and former cruise ship employees, in an article published in...
IMO Gears Up To Investigate Scrubbers’ Washwater
In a recent development, the International Maritime Organization’s MEPC, Marine Environment Protection Committee, announced that they will investigate open-looped scrubbers' discharge, in particular, the environmental impact of the washwater, reports The MediTelegraph
Why this move?
Some...
Cruise Ship Design for the Human Scale
The Spring/Summer 2019 issue of International Cruise & Ferry Review published suggestions given by YSA Design chairman Trond Sigurdsen, why cruise lines could pay more attention to how they design interiors to attract more...
Chevron To Bring IMO Compliant Shipping Fuel
Chevron plans to bring an IMO-compliant 0.5% sulphur shipping fuel blend to the market by the end of the third quarter, reports Reuters.
Stringent IMO 2020 regulation
Ships will be required to use fuels with a...
Ocean Freight Rates Set To Rise as Shippers Struggle To Install Scrubber Equipment
With IMO deadline just months away, shipping lines are scrambling to fit scrubbers, but some are finding they have left it too late and it takes six weeks for the retrofit.
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Have $10,000 Per Night To Spend on a Cruise Ship?
According to an article published by Forbes, you can easily spend that much when you sail on the Regent Seven Seas Explorer, widely acknowledged as the most luxurious cruise ship in the world.
A whopping...