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...
Wärtsilä Signs Service Agreements for Four Japanese LNG Carriers
The technology group Wärtsilä has signed long-term service agreements for four Japanese owned LNG Carriers, reports The Maritime Executive.
What is in the agreement?
Wärtsilä’s Dynamic Maintenance Planning (DMP) proposition with performance guarantees is recognised as...
IMO 2020 Challenges Global Refinery Industry’s Capacity
IMO decided to strictly enforce use of bunker fuels with a sulfur content of 0.5% from the existing 3.5% limit, from 2020.
Refineries do not have sufficient production capacity to meet compliant...
Titanic Didn’t Sink Because of an Iceberg – ‘Rogue’ Wave Threat Revealed!
According to an interesting article published by the Express United Kingdom, cruise ships are guided by experienced captains, with the majority of journeys proving successful.
Yet they sometimes encounter natural dangers at sea which cannot...