The Shipping Industry Needs to Clean Up its Act. Here’s Where it Can Start
Just north of the U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany, a group of shipping industry leaders gathered — well, where else? — on the water.
An elegant river cruise ship, the Rhine Fantasy, was transformed Monday into a floating...
ZIM’s Groundbreaking Blockchain-Based Bill of Lading
The new solution allows the secure exchange of original documents on the blockchain.
The first pilot of paperless Bills-of-Lading based on blockchain technology was completed in cooperation with Sparx Logistics and Wave Ltd. The pioneering...
Maritime Standard Woman in Shipping Award goes to LUKOIL Marine
The fourth annual Maritime Standard Awards, held on Monday 23rd October 2017, saw LUKOIL Marine Lubricants’ Director June Manoharan win ‘The Maritime Standard Woman in Shipping Award’, celebrating and rewarding her amazing journey of...
Multiple Fuel Choices will be a Headache for Ship-owners
New research suggests that a prescriptive approach to fuel sulphur has resulted in more toxic emissions, according to one of the presenters at the first Asian Emissions Technology Conference organised by the Exhaust Gas...
Shipping Stands Ready to Face Challenges Posed by Cybercrime
EUROPOL director Rob Wainwright has called it “a new business model”. In recent years, cybercrime has increasingly targeted the transport sector, causing experts in the field to respond by honing their tool kits. One...
Managing the New Panamax Containerships
By Barry Parker
The explosive growth of international boxships is challenging not only the physical infrastructure of North American ports, but also the very nature of the existing supply chains that they impact.
The recent dialogue on...
[Watch] Hoisted Off Maersk Vessel
A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk rescue helicopter crew medevaced a 53-year-old man suffering cardiac issues from the motor vessel Maersk Eindhoven 200 miles south of Cold Bay, Alaska, November 16, 2017. The man was...
Marine Pilots Beyond Human Vision Capability with ABB Ability™
ABB has unveiled a new situational awareness solution that will make vessel operations safer and more efficient. The solution can be used by officers anywhere onboard a ship and marks the next step towards...
Maersk Crew Medevaced Off Cold Bay
On November 16, a man was medevaced from a 1200-foot motor vessel Maersk Eindhoven 200 miles south of Cold Bay by a Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew.
What happened?
The Coast Guard...
Hot Work Safety Policy Ignorance Results in Fire Aboard the Vessel
Summary
On August 16, 2016, while the vessel was docked in its home berth in a non-operational status, general contractors and painters arrived to begin work on the vessel. The painters began Fire aboard Passenger...