In 2018 fuel oil sale decreased from 9.9 million m3 to 9.5 million m3 due to the dip in sales of HFO from 8.3 million m3 to 7.9 million m3 in Rotterdam bunker...

2018 was a turbulent year for the container shipping industry, but it might have been only a warm-up for 2019 IMO 2020 regulations could cost the container shipping business as much as $10B...

The Wind Challenger Project is radicalizing sails to use it for a hybrid maritime system which used wind propulsion as a renewable and viable form of energy. These modernized sails can be lifted and...

The International Chamber of Shipping has welcomed the decision by the IMO that in exceptional cases, be a valid reason for shipowners to be issued with a FONAR. ICS warns FONARs are “NOT...

  The MV Solomon Trader $30m bulk carrier spilling oil in the Solomon Islands may have run aground. 75 tonnes of oil has so far leaked into the ocean and the 225m ship is...

Last month a team of Hydrex diver/technicians traveled to Tenerife for an underwater propeller blade straightening on a 246-meter cruise ship. Almost simultaneously another team cropped the heavily bent blades of a 200-meter vehicle...

In a major development, the technology group Wärtsilä has announced that they have signed a long-term Wärtsilä Optimised maintenance solution with Japanese LNG shipowner Tokyo LNG Tanker Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of Tokyo Gas,...

On January 29, 2017, crew members on board Shanghai Spirit faced some serious injuries as they had fallen from a height. The case report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau deals with the technicalities...

The Baltic Briefing has released a report on March 1, 2019. It specifies the freightos baltic container of the 8th week of shipping activities of this year. The report highlights the plight of the container...

Qingdao Pengteng has acquired a 1,050 teu boxship and has named it 'Bal Boan'. The boxship is fitted with Unifeeder for two to four months for trading in northwest Europe and the Baltic at EUR5,700 a day. ...