Accident : Vessel GroundingDate : 19 September 2015Vessel Involved : M/V Victoria, a bulk carrierCasualties : NonePollution : NilThe vessel carrying wheat, bunker fuel and diesel stuck on a shoal off the west Varberg, Sweden.  It was en route...

In January 2015, Bulk carrier JUPITER along with its crew of 18 sank rapidly while on a voyage from Kuantan Malaysia to China. It was laden with 46,400 tons of bauxite.  This incident has...

Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN) is a global business network that works to prevent corruption and promoting fair trade in the entire shipping industry.  NYK has become a member of MACN.The network collaborates with governments,...

Marine traffic in Suez Canal has a steady growth.  This growth is calculated by the tonnage of cargo passing through. Every day an average of 21 ships carrying 8.1m tonnes in cargo pass through the...

Movie Name : ClandestineDirector : Stuart Gatt, an award winning filmmakerProducers : Kelly Goncalves and Kate Glover along with two affiliated charities Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF) and Human Rights at Sea.Budget for the film : £70,000...

How those enormous stockpile of oil in secure caverns and tankers help ?America’s Gulf Coast holds nearly 700 million barrels of crude oil buried underground across four secure sites.  United States’ massive “Strategic Petroleum...

Philippines army spokesman is reported to have said that on late Monday few gunmen kidnapped two Canadians, a Norwegian and a local woman from a tourist resort in the southern Philippines.  The unidentified attackers...

Viswa Lab has witnessed numerous Piston ring breakage and Liner wear cases this year.  Based on the statistics, it was reported that the main cause of such damages was closely related to high Cat-fines...

Iran stores crude oil on supertankers at sea to have an operational power when demand in the market declines.  Oil consumers have been speculating that Iran might be storing up to 40 million barrels...

U.S. Navy records report a spill of nearly 5 million gallons of oil in Pearl Harbor.  The leaking fuel storage tanks and other sources have created a subsurface oil plume consisting mostly of bunker...