Caution! Heat from Fuel Tanks Can Damage Your Cargo

Fuel oil in tanks bordering cargo holds release excessive heat that can damage bulk and bagged agricultural products.What Can Happen? When the fuel oil is heated, the temperature of the tank plating rises and affects...

All I Want For Christmas Is You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.beIt was Mariah Carey’s Christmas classic All I Want For Christmas Is You, but as you have probably never heard it before.Earlier this week, someone converted the song to MIDI – a digital way...

Weekend Party Spoiled as Containership Suffers Engine Damage on Friday!

A Cargo Ship And a lifeboat needed assistance in  rough weather.Accident type : Engine failureVessel type : Cargo vessel and its salvage tug.Location : Off the Cornish coast near PorthlevenEnroute : From Rotterdam in the Netherlands to DublinCasualties/Pollution :...

[Watch] Biggest Moments in 2015 – From GOOGLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.beThe video features ‘the 2015 biggest moments’ and the related searches in the year. The searches has inspired trillion of questions.Explore the year's biggest moments and the questions they inspired.TOPIC MONTH/YEAR SEARCHESParis Under Attack November/2015 897 M+Star Wars December/2015 155...

The New Concept Of ‘Hydricity’ Uses Solar Energy To Produce Power Round-The-Clock

"Hydricity" concept, proposed by researchers, is aimed at creating a sustainable economy by not only generating electricity with solar energy but also producing and storing hydrogen from superheated water for round-the-clock power production.Rakesh Agrawal,...

A ‘Silver Bullet’ to Prevent Water Ingress into Cargo Holds

One of the important factors predicting the seaworthiness of a vessel is the ability to resist the seawater ingress into the internal spaces.  However, people still face the problem of cargo wetting and damages...

Downtrend In Vessel Valuations

The bulker market values continued their downward trend.  The Baltic Dry Index reached another all-time low, since 1985.The sale of the Pierre LD 171,900 Daeweoo ’05 blt, to Chartworld Shipping for USD 12.35 million...

How a King Cobra Travelled From Singapore to United States!

A stow-away Indian Cobra was rescued from a container ship bound for the APM Terminals at the Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal in New Jersey.  On December 10th, the ship was heading from Singapore to...

Tragic Night At Sea: Birkenhead Wreck

Accident type : WreckedVessel involved : HMS BirkenheadLocation : GansbaaiDate : 26th February 1852Casualties : 450 deathsVESSEL INFO:Name   : HMS BirkenheadBuilt : 1845Class & type : Frigate, later troopshipTonnage : 1400 bmLength : 210 ft (64 m)Beam : 37 ft 6 in...

Cancer Is Due To Environment Factors

Cancer is not due to bad luck but a result of environmental factors, a study suggestsCancer is caused by one of the body's own stem cells dividing out of control.  It can be caused...