How to Handle Cargoes on Board a Reefer Vessel/Container?

Reefer Container/ Vessel: A Reefer Vessel is a type of refrigerated cargo ship/container used to transport perishable commodities which require temperature-controlled transportation.The changing consumer preferences is met by the use of such reefer vessel/container. General...

Piracy Attack Thwarted On A Tanker

The Iranian Navy Warship thwarted a recent pirate attack on a tanker at Bab-el-Mandeb Strait.The Sabalan, Iranian warship and the combat support ship Tonb were on an anti-piracy mission in the region since 1st...

Collision Of Princess Alice

Princess Alice, formerly PS Bute built in 1865, was a passenger paddle steamer, owned by the London Steamboat Co.On 3rd September, 1878, the Princess Alice left Gravesend for London with 900 people.  Princess Alice collided...

Port Of Rotterdam Is The Port Of The Month

ESPO’s port of the month is the Port of Rotterdam.  With an annual throughput which amounts to some 450 million tonnes and a vast industrial complex, the Port of Rotterdam can be considered as...

Fuel Oil Market Dampened

More supply and less demand dampen fuel oil markets in the months ahead.  Bunker sales is robust in the key bunkering hub of Singapore but the prospect of higher arbitrage shipments will escalate the...

Java Plug-In Malware Alert To Be Issued By Oracle

Millions of Java users are to be warned that they could be exposed to malware as a result of a flaw that existed in the software's update tool.The plug-in is installed on many PCs...

Roads On Auto De-Ice Mode

Where the temperature drops below zero degrees the icy roads become dangerous.The team from Koç University, Turkey has developed a road material (with a salt potassium formate mixed in a styrene-butadiene-styrene polymer) that delays...

The Operation Performance Package By ABB

The Operation Performance Package (OPAC) service agreement with China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) by ABB Turbocharging is its third and largest.  ABB now services over 300 turbochargers for CSCL, the largest number covered under...

IMO Tier III Compliance For SCR Exhaust System

Hug Engineering’s SCR Selective Catalytic Emission Reduction System has reached the stringent new IMO emissions certification for Tier III on Amels 188 yacht.  Lloyd’s Register class supervision test ensures the generator sets of the...

Russia To Kick-Start Expedition To Antarctica

The Russian Navy oceanographic research ship Admiral Vladimirsky headed for the Antarctic from Kronstadt on November 6.  The expedition, the first of its kind in 30 years, the Admiral Vladimirsky will cover over 30,000...