Hazardous Maintenance Work Done In An Unplanned Manner Caused Serious Injury

A seaman suffered a serious finger injury during maintenance work. Incident: A seaman was working on deck with the Bosun. He worked on colour-code painting of the shackles and moving the shackles on to the rack...

High Exhaust Gas Temperature Caused Exhaust Manifold to Collapse!

A ferry with twin propulsion engine faced high exhaust gas temperatures on both the engines for many years, such as high that the exhaust manifold collapsed two times on both engines.  The ship staff...

Maersk & Navig8 – Profits up with Product Tankers, HHI Opens the Order Book...

The New Year 2016 was not a good start for the dry bulk division where the baltic dry index slipped to a record low.  The Baltic Dry Index dropped every day where media claimed...

Delivery Of Six New VLCCS Kick Starts A Busy Delivery Year

Six brand new VLCCs from shipyards in South Korea and China to owners and investor across the globe marks a grand beginning for 2016. 58 more  VLCCs are scheduled for delivery for the full year...

Vessel Listed? Port of Rotterdam has a Solution!

Modern Express salvaged by Smit Salvage, in the Gulf of Biscay. Stricken vessel Modern Express is towed by another ship entering at the port of the northern Spanish city of Bilbao, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016. Royal...

The Wreck Of Toa Maru No 2

Toa Maru No 2 is a World War II Japanese transport ship, launched on 1934, build by Kawasaki Dockyard, Kobe. On November 25th, 1943, Toa Maru was sunk by the American submarine USS Searaven (SS-196)...

[IMO Training] Ballast Water Sampling and Analysis

IMO Training: Ballast Water Sampling and Analysis   The GloBallast Partnerships Programme, from IMO, launched a video based training on ballast water sampling and analysis.  IMO’s this effort is focussed on countering the threat to...

Titanic – To Sail From China To Dubai In 2018

Billionaire Australian businessman Clive Palmer has announced that Titanic II will now set sail in 2018.   Titanic, the infamously declared "unsinkable", sank on its maiden voyage after hitting an iceberg in 1912, killing 1,503 people....

Britain’s Biggest Plant Bursts

Massive explosion at Tata Steel Works Britain. A coke oven at the works that is now isolated burst into flames raising up to 100 feet into air.  The Tata Steelworks in Port Talbot announced over...

Wartsila Leads Japan into Gas Age

Japan’s LNG carrier market enhances its gas fuelled merchant fleet with 61 engines from Wartsila. A total of 16 new gas carrier ships powered by Wärtsilä dual-fuel engines are built in Japan.  These engines are...