Facebook Allows Users To Stream Live Video

The popular Periscope and Meerkat owned by Twitter offered the service of live streaming via mobile phones, to a select group of celebrities and high-profile users for several months. Facebook's live video feature will be...

Does Fuel Oil Have Fingerprints?

At times, a vessel has to load bunkers from two or more barges or from trucks.  In such cases, collecting bunker drip sample is always a challenge.  In an ideal case, for each such...

Container Cabins Save Fuel And Operational Cost!

Futuristic planes, as per the innovation patented by the French-based aviation firm Airbus, will have detachable container cabins for passengers.  The ‘loaded’ container will be lifted and fitted onto the back of a plane...

[Watch]What Happens When a Cargo Ship Meets a Railway Bridge

What Happens When A Cargo Ship Meets A Railway Bridge? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be A cargo ship rammed a railway bridge spanning the Ems river in northwest Germany. The ship somehow managed to plough through the closed bridge.  It is...

ExxonMobil Launches Mobilgard 300C Marine System Engine Oil

ExxonMobil has launched Mobilgard™ 300 C, a high-performance system oil for two-stroke, crosshead marine diesel engines operating under severe conditions. Compared with conventional system oils, Mobilgard 300 C offers superior engine cleanliness, better engine...

The New MAN 175D – 100% High-Speed

The New MAN 175D – 100% High-Speed   MAN Diesel & Turbo showcases Tier III-friendly, high-speed engine at Marintec marine exhibition MAN Diesel & Turbo used its presence at the Marintec 2015 marine exhibition in Shanghai to...

Trivia: Question 1 – ECA transit

Question:   Should My Vessel use a fuel with sulphur % less than 0.1% en route ECA towards a destination port which is outside ECA? Answer: Even if a vessel is not calling at any port in an...

General cargo ship caught fire in Black Sea

  Type of Ship General Cargo Location Black Sea 50 nautical miles off Bulgaria What Happened Fire in Engine Room. Casualties None         The vessel Nazim Bey was en route from Constanta, Romania to Tuzla, Turkey. While it was 50 nautical miles off Bulgaria,...

Viability of 20000+ Teu Vessels

A poll named MarPoll has just four days to close but 64% of the more than 500 have voted so far think that 20,000 teu+ containerships are likely to be thrown out like the...

Spidery Tarantulas Chose Blue Eight Times

The U.S. biologists, found tarantula species have evolved almost exactly the same shade of vibrant blue at least eight separate times. The hue is created by tiny structures inside the animals' hairs, but those shapes...