Goodbye High Seas, Hello Cubicle. Is Sailor the Next Desk Job?
Some sailors of tomorrow will never have to get their sea legs. These sailors will be seated in office buildings on land, hundreds of miles from their ship, which won't have any humans on...
Does World Trade Bode Well for Marine Shipping? Think Again
A fully loaded cargo ship heads into New York Harbor in August of 2016 in New York City. The global economic slowdown, especially the financial difficulties in China, hurt profits in the global shipping...
How Crane Collapse Incident Occurred? – A Pilot’s View
A pilot with knowledge of berthing operations at DP World’s Jebel Ali Port says the collision between a CMA-CGM container ship and STS crane that caused the crane to collapse was likely the result...
IMO’s Hughes Talks Sulfur Cap, Quashes Talk of a Delay
* Chance of push-back to Jan 2020 sulfur cap deadline 'negligible'
* Compliance with 2020 sulfur cap a key topic in July meeting
* IMO to request ISO consider 0.50% fuel specifications
The 0.5% global sulfur limit...
Tanker Runs Aground in a Lake
On Friday, A tanker reportedly ran aground east of Cornwall.
What happened?
The incident occurred when the ship way on its way from Hamilton to Montreal when it reportedly ran aground in St. Francis near Salaberry-de-Valleyfield,...
Presence of Lead in Stern Tube Lubrication Oils
VISWA LAB TECHNICAL UPDATE:
Presence of Lead in Stern Tube Lubrication Oils
We have received two cases of elevated and increasing lead levels in stern tube lubricating oils. The concern is, if the stern tube bearings (which...
Baltic Dry Index Posts Four Consecutive Daily Losses
The Baltic Dry Index declined four-straight sessions this week, with the shipping metric now at 957 points, firmly below 1000 points with little expectation of making up ground in the short-term as shipping demand...
Indonesian Car Ferry Catches Fire Off East Java
The ro/pax ferry Mutiara Sentosa 1 suffered a serious fire on Friday evening during a transit of the waters of the Masalembo, the Southeast Asian equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle. Indonesian SAR agency Basarnas...
ABB Adds Certified MRV Module to its Suite
ABB strengthens its decision support software suite with certified MRV module
The latest development will enable customers to monitor their emissions according to the EU’s Monitoring Reporting and Verification (MRV) regulation requirements, which come into...
OOCL Hong Kong Takes Largest Containership Crown
The 21,413 teu OOCL HONG KONG, delivered last week by Samsung Heavy Industries, has taken the crown for the largest containership ever built, based on advertised nominal container intake. A total of 54 units...