Use of Torch Lights Inside a Ballast Tank Kills Three
Every shipboard activity has a high-risk factor associated with it. May it be in the engine room or in the cargo area, the risks are many. Reports claim that each year more than 300...
OOPS! – Bunker Fuel Spilled At Los Angeles
A Pure Car Carrier(PCC) leaks oil off Los Angeles in the west coast port Yesterday at 7:25 PM.
The 2007 built car carrier left a clear sheen of an unclear amount of oil at berth...
[Watch] Oil Leaks From A Car Carrier At Port Of LA
Incident
: Oil Spill
Location
: Port of LA
Vessel Type
: Car carrier
Amount of spill
: Not available
A cargo ship spilled oil into the sea during its refueling operations at Port of LA on Sunday. According to US Coast...
[Watch] Dolphin Stampede
Whale watchers, looking to catch a few glimpses of the animals were in for a surprise when hundreds of dolphins began racing and jumping through the water during a dolphin "stampede" off the...
Woman Seafarers, Sexual Harassment On the High Seas
The Philippines started deploying women marine deck officers and marine engineers on international vessels in the late 1990s, sending 1,404 of them to sea from 2011 to 2014.
In this male-dominated marine engineering profession, female...
Maritime Stocks: Upgrades & Downgrades
Navios Maritime Acquisition Co. (NYSE:NNA) - Wells Fargo downgraded from outperform rating to an underperform rating on Friday. They currently have $1.62 price objective on the stock, down from their previous price objective of...
NYK Develops Next-Generation Shipping And Logistics Solutions
NYK teams with Weathernews and Kozo Keikaku plans to develop a new company to provide market next-generation solutions in the shipping and logistics fields.
Symphony Creative Solutions Pte. Ltd. (SCS) is the new company being...
MHI Delivers World’s First LNG Powered – Air Lubricated Ship
AIDAprima, the first new-generation cruise ship, was delivered to AIDA Cruises and set sail from the Nagasaki Shipyard heading to Hamburg, Germany.
During a formal ceremony in Nagasaki on Monday, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd....
Ship’s Engineer Suffered A Stroke!
A Seafarer was evacuated from the vessel offshore of Mouille Point, Cape Town on Sunday.
A sea rescue craft, Spirit of Vodacom, was launched by the NSRI Table Bay duty crew, accompanied by a Western...
This is How a Ship Can Explode – Do it the Indonesian Government Way!
The Viking, a ship sought after for illegal fishing, was exploded by the Indonesian government on March 14.
The Indonesian government exploded and scuttled a ship, the Nigerian-flagged Viking that was seized on Feb. 25. The explosion...