ABB Powers Tourists to the Niagara Falls with First US Built All-Electric Vessels
Two new Maid of the Mist passenger vessels will be powered entirely by high-capacity battery packs, becoming the first all-electric vessels ever built in the US.
Each of the vessels will be powered...
Knutsen Expands Its LNG Fleet
The LNG carrier ownership and ship management business is conducted through Knutsen LNG and Knutsen OAS Shipping and marine technology development.
All of Knutsen’s LNG carriers are fitted with GTT NO 96 membrane...
Cruise Collides With A Tourist Boat in Danube, 7 Dead, 21 Missing, Cruise...
A boat that capsized in the Danube River in Budapest with 33 South Korean tourists and a massive search operation is underway, reports the Washington Post.
Here's the full time-to-time report of the incident. All...
Luxury Superyacht Lost At Sea After Falling Off Cargo Ship
A luxury superyacht owned by an Italian billionaire was lost at sea after it slipped from a cargo ship into the Mediterranean, reports CNN
What happened?
My Song, a 40-meter (130-foot) Baltic 130 Custom sailing yacht,...
Hamburg Süd With Maersk Strengthens Service
Hamburg Süd in cooperation with Maersk will be expanding and enhancing the services it offers, beginning in June 2019, says an article published in Container News.com.
Global network of liner services
According to the German company,...
Miniature Medicine ‘Submarines’: The New Way To Target Cancer Cells for Treatment
A paper published in Materials Today, the engineers explain how they developed micrometer-sized submarines that exploit biological environments to tune their buoyancy, enabling them to carry drugs to specific locations in the body, writes...
Doubts Persist Despite More IMO Compliant Fuel Availability
According to a Reuters' report, shipowners, who are facing one of the biggest changes in the oil industry in decades, are seeing more fuels that will be compliant with new rules on sulfur emissions...
Shipowners Eyeing Wall Street Through Direct Listing, Not IPOs
In a recent development, Golar LNG Ltd. has announced that they have plans to spin off their liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier business into a separate public vehicle. Lately, there has been an upsurge...
Ship Doctor Reveals Passengers LIE About This
CRUISES mostly involve relaxing, eating and exploring new ports of call, but not all holidays on cruise ships pass smoothly. A cruise ship doctor reveals one thing to always look out for and staff...
Are Cruise Ships The New Retirement Homes?
Lee Wachtstetter known as Mama Lee has been living on a cruise ship full-time since she turned 77. Lana Bandoim writes for an article published in The Week about the 89-year-old Wachtstetter’s book, in...