Effective 7 March 2016, Dr. Toshiyuki Shigemi has been appointed as Executive Vice President as well as Executive Director of ClassNK.  Yasushi Nakamura has stepped down as Senior Executive Vice President, and has been...

VIKING Saatsea, the maritime e-learning unit of marine and offshore safety equipment leader VIKING Life-Saving Equipment (VIKING), has released a new set of 24/7-accessible, train-at-your-convenience courses to make ISPS Code (the International Ship and...

A 2010-built youngest-ever box ship to be scrapped. What happened? Hammonia Reederei’s ‘Hammonia Grenada’ has set a new record after becoming the youngest box ship to be sold for scrap – at just seven-years old. And it...

We are faced with the perfect storm in the next few years.  Many will conclude it is all the fault of President Trump, but in fact it is actually nothing to do with him....

On 5th March 2017, a cargo ship reportedly ran aground while manoeuvring away from the berth. What happened? The cargo ship "Caledonia" ran aground in Constanta while she maneuvered away from berth 35-36 where she had...

Selektope® shortlisted for GREEN4SEA Technology Award Gothenburg-based I-Tech, the inventor and supplier of the pioneering anti-fouling agent Selektope®, has announced that the technology has been shortlisted for the 2017 GREEN4SEA Awards in the category recognizing...

Once considered the future of gas production, floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) projects have been firmly relegated to the backburner as global gas producers seek cheaper ways to compete with a surge in U.S....

There's much more to UK ports than Brexit, as Felicity Landon reports It is easy to get caught up in the problems and challenges that Brexit might bring, says Richard Ballantyne, who recently took over...

The Baltic Dry Index tacked on 40 points on Monday. After just crossing the 900 point mark the index is now propelling towards 1000 points, a level where some resistance is expected. On Monday,...

The former captain of a 600-foot chemical tanker that dumped thousands of gallons of waste into the Atlantic Ocean while docked in South Carolina's port can return home to the Philippines. A federal judge sentenced...