Oil Spill Due To Vessel Grounding Off Papua Guinea

Vessel Grounding Off Papua Guinea Ends In Oil SpillageIncident : Vessel GroundingVessel type : Passenger/Cargo VesselLocation : Near the Talele Island nature reserve in Papua New GuineaCasualties/Pollution : Oil spillThe passenger/cargo vessel ran aground on a reef near...

[Watch] Six Cruise Ships Tied Up at the Port’s Docks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.beWatch the Port Canaveral was jammed with both spectators and cruise ship passengers as, for the first time ever, six cruise ships tied up at the port’s docks. Cruise Ship Stats Cruise Ship  Decks   Passengers Magic weighs   Feet...

Frozen Shipping Market Warming Up For 2016

The global shipping market has been fairly icy in 2015.  However the investors managed to overcome the chillness.  Let us see how hot has this year looked in this regard?The ClarkSea Index provides a...

Challenges Faced By Maritime Industry of Nigeria

2015 will go down as the toughest year in  the maritime industry of Nigeria.At the beginning of the year 2015, operators in the industry (especially the RORO port operations) were worried following the introduction...

Shell & Port of Antwerp Recommends LNG Bunkering in Europe

Shell’s fleet of barges, to be built by Netherlands shipbuilder VEKA at a Polish yard, will have six-cylinder 20DF dual-fuel main engines from Wärtsilä for its propulsion.The fleet of 15 new LNG-fueled inland product...

She Sank With 389 Men!

Hiryū was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).  It was the only one ship of her class, a modified Soryu design.  Japanese word Hiryū means ‘Flying Dragon’.Hiryū took part in...

60 Suffer from Gastro Problems – “A Floating Disaster Ship”

Pacific Eden, dubbed "floating disaster ship" and described as ‘worse than a one-star motel' by holidaymakers had returned to Sydney on Monday after a serious sanitation session.  Pacific Eden was disinfected at White Bay...

A Month without Spirit

New Scientist staff have teamed up with Rajiv Jalan at the Institute for Liver and Digestive Health at University College London Medical School (UCLMS) to investigate (DRY January) the benefits of  giving up alcohol for a...

25 Years Of WWW

Tim Berners-Lee of Switzerland had on 20 December 1990 turned on the world’s first website.  The site was used internally by CERN scientists until the whole server was opened up to anyone with an...

Top Ship Designs in 2015 – a Review

The ship designers are hard at work to boost the fuel efficiency of the industry and help ship owners meet upcoming environmental regulations.GE Marine and Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC) obtained Lloyd’s Register’s (LR)...