Technical Update 2018/6/25 Viswa Lab has received six cases of machinery problems with heavy fuel bunkered in Panama ports of Balboa, Manzanillo and Cristobal. Four of the bunkers were in late May 2018 and two...

Tanker owner Frontline buys 20% share of a scrubbers company. The move came at a time when scrubbers have become the niche solution for the 2020 sulphur cap. This deal will empower 14...

According to an analysis of the scrubber orderbook by class society DNV GL, ship owners are increasingly choosing systems that discharge treated water containing the sulphur removed from exhaust gases to the ocean rather...

The German shipping line Hapag-Lloyd AG has recently cut down its profit forecast for the year owing to an overcapacity in the industry coupled with spiralling fuel costs. This move resulted in a catastrophe...

As the demand for oil from the energy major BP slowed down, the company held up four of its supertankers off China’s east coast since the last two months, reports Reuters. The delayed oil...

Diana Containerships Inc. , a global shipping company specializing in the ownership of containerships, announced that today it has completed the previously announced sale of one of its Post-Panamax container vessels, the m/v Puelo,...

The shipowners are required to respond to new environmental rules in international shipping, Oman Drydock Company is seeing increasing inquiries atits yard for both scrubber retrofits and ballast water management systems installations, ODC CEO...

Increasing number of abandoned vessel are flocking to UAE’s territorial waters since they offer help to abandoned ships. What happened? Mr.Al Nuaimi stressed that the ship owners know about the many organisations and agencies in the...

The world’s mariners are protected by what may be the only minimum wage established across an entire global industry. Now, labor advocates are mobilizing to increase their pay and make consumers more aware of...

Lifeboat inspection, fire drills, emergency generator training, keeping watch, new friendships, ports, building professional networks, and working far away from home and family. Life at Sea These, and many more, are all part of life at...