Appointment of Maritime Safety Division Director
Captain Ashok Mahapatra has taken the charge of new IMO Director, Maritime Safety Division. He would be taking his position on 1st October 2015. He started his career by joining Scindia Steam Navigation as...
[Watch] How to Construct a Ship in 6 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMG1SdeYLFE&feature=youtu.be
MK time-lapse from Hamburg, Germany have used their famed proprietary time-lapse cameras that can capture one 16mp frame every minute. This camera was used over a period of 11 months of construction time to...
Mississippi River: Towboats Collision Leads to Oil Spill
Accident
: Collision.Date
: 2nd September at 20:22 hours.Location
: Mile marker 937, Mississippi River near Paducah, Kentucky.Oil Spillage
: 250000 gallons of spilled into the river.Casualties
: None.On Wednesday, two towboats collided resulting in nearly 250,000 gallons of clarified...
Singtel Launches All-In-One Smartbox Mobile App
Event: Launch of Mobile App.Date
: 27th August 2015.Place
: The Grand Park Orchard in Singapore.Chief Guest
: Head of Singtel satellite Group, Mr. Lim Kian Soon.A timely innovation by the company is their All-in-one SmartBox mobile...
Chinese Registered Vessel Sinks
Accident
:
CapsizeDate
:
September 3rd, 2015Vessel involved
:
MV. Zhe Pu 01833Location
:
China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan PortCasualties
:
NoneThe vessel reportedly lost engine power when it sailed close to China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan port. The failed power caused it to lose propulsion thereby striking reef on...
Private Cruise Terminal in the Port Of Barcelona
Carnival Corporation has signed a €30million deal to build and operate its second private cruise terminal in the Port of Barcelona, one of the busiest cruise ports in the world.
Construction of the new terminal...
Do Real Women Visit Ashley Madison, The Infidelity Site?
Ashley Madison is an infidelity dating website which has around 36 million members of whom hardly 12,000 are women reveals an article by Gizmodo, based on the stolen data from Avid Life Media which...
Funniest Mobile Phone Joke In Edinburgh Fringe
The following pun by comedian Darren Walsh has won the prize for funniest joke of the Edinburgh Fringe:
"I just deleted all the German names off my phone. It's Hans free."
Walsh, from Peterborough, had also...
Stateless Ship Up For Auction
The Libyan government has put up the oil tanker M/T Morning Glory on auction. Earlier, the vessel that was transporting crude oil from Es Sider to a Libyan port held by anti-government rebels was...
World’s 2nd LNG-Powered Containership Launched
Perla del Caribe, a 764-foot long container ship is known to be the world’s largest dry cargo ship of its kind, to be powered by LNG.
The speciality of this totally LNG powered vessel is...