Mike Corrigan, the incoming CEO of global trade association Interferry, is to advocate greater European Union involvement and investment in the ferry sector during an address on the opening day of European Shipping Week,...

Reports this week indicated that VLCC availability has been limited by a surge in floating storage which has consumed a large segment of the fleet, raising fears about the timing and implications of a...

Charter fees and freight rates may rise as smaller lines struggle with costs of Ballast-Water Convention An international convention regulating ballast water, which ships with little or no cargo take on or discharge to maintain...

POPULATION forecasting is not simple.  Demographers use mortality data—information about when people die and why—to estimate the likely life expectancy of people still alive. The UN, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and others produce...

COMPOSITE CUTTERHEAD SHAFT BEARING AS GOOD AS NEW AFTER TEN YEARS OF DREDGING After ten years and more than 100,000 operating hours dredging up silt, sand, rocks and stones in some of the toughest marine...

Port Arthur firefighters are still investigating what caused a conveyer belt fire near a cargo ship.  The conveyor belt being used to load German wood pellets onto a ship caught fire according to the...

V.Group has signed an agreement with Lloyds Register to run an initiative on port state control performance improvement on board V.Ships and ITM managed vessels over the next six months. Drawing on 2016 data of...

The floating made-in-China monster! 31k-tonne oil platform sets sail to its new home in the UK How did the oil platform cross the ocean? No, this isn't joke but an actual case of real-life logistics. A giant...

Footage shows the mammoth structure being tugged through the water at a snail's pace. The platform, also known as Hope No.6 and the equivalent of 18 floors, is the first to be built by China...

Agreement covers two superferries in Stena fleet MAN Diesel & Turbo recently signed a contract with Stena Line to provide its online service to two vessels.  The ‘Stena Hollandica’ and ‘Stena Britannica’ are both conventional...