80% Weather and 20% Others for Voyage Optimisation
Modern container ships grow more susceptible to the elements of nature due to large size.
International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) stats hold weather accountable for 48% of total shipping losses from 2011...
[Watch] A Dive on the Wreck of the Schiedam
The Schiedam was wrecked in 1684 off the coast of Cornwall while carrying arms, tools and other goods from Tangier in North Africa to England. This film was taken in October 2018 several weeks...
Ralph Wenninger Responsible for Sinking 98 Ships
David Barnicoat has written about the historic German U-boat which sank 98 ships in World War 1 in his latest article published in Falmouth Packet. Today we will be discussing that incident.
What happened?
German WW1...
U.S. Flag Vessel Safety
On October 1, the occasion was marked three years since the tragic sinking of the M/V El Faro ranked as one of the worst maritime disasters in U.S. history and in the highest death...
Will VLCCs Lead the Tanker Market to Recovery?
In recent times the tanker market has shown some signs of improvement and through-out the industry there has been a sense of positivity, in stark contrast to the downward spiral that represented the first...
Maersk, CMA, MSC, Hapag and ONE Establish Container Shipping Association
According to media reports, a five company nexus is being formed to pave the way for digitalization, standardization and interoperability in the container shipping industry. The association will strengthen Containershipping like never before.
What's in...
Pirates Attack Vessel
Duty officer on board a Singapore- flagged vessel noticed suspicious men skiff 2 men in Gulf of Aden.
What happened?
While sailing, the duty officer on board Singapore-flagged tanker noticed a suspicious mother boat with unknown...
No Root Cause Found for Bunker Contamination and Related Engine Failures
The CIMAC Fuels working group, gave the below statement on 10 Nov 2018, to update the marine industry on how, as specialists, they see the recent marine fuel incidents that occurred earlier this year.
The...
Win this Container Ship from Guinness World Records 2019
Guinness World Records asks a question: What weighs more than 20,000 tonnes, can carry thousands of tonnes of cargo and is equivalent in length to eight Olympic-size swimming pools?
How stuffs move around the world?
Have...
Wärtsilä’s Lock Entry Assist System Aids Damage to Vessels
Wärtsilä and CSL group comes together to build a lock entry assist system.
The technology to assist ships into the waterway locks was first developed and tested at the St Lawrence Seaway...