https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Accident : Collision Vessel involved : Turkish bulk carrier and Vietnamese cargo vessel Casualties : None The two vessels collided with each other while transiting the Straits of Singapore.  A small carrier suddenly veered across the 57,000-tonne bulk carrier which...

Accident : Cargo Ship Caught Fire Vessel Involved : Soya Maru (IMO: 8907462) Cargo Onboard : Scrap Date : 8th November 2015 Location : West of Matsuyama, Inner Japan Sea Casualties : None Route :From Osaka to Haimen port in China On November 8th a general cargo ship...

New statutory Tanker requirements on the installation and operation of Inert gas systems New statutory requirements for fixed inert gas systems will enter into force on 1 January, 2016, as a result of changes to...

ECA - Emission Control Areas - require Ocean-Going Vessels (OGV) to comply with the emission requirements by switching to 0.1% sulphur fuel from 1st January 2015 or use suitable exhaust abatement technology like Viswa...

A ten-day dockworkers’ strike will affect the three Portuguese ports starting from November 14. In order to protest at a potential end of collective bargaining agreements, the stevedores union has announced a ten-day strike in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be The heavy lift ship Zhen Hua 26 arrived at the APM Terminal Lázaro Cárdenas (TEC2) delivering the world’s largest ship to shore cranes. Highlights: It has a capacity of 1.2 million annual TEU. It is a semi-automated...

CSCL revealed in an announcement on Friday that a unit of China Shipping Container Lines (CSCL) has entered into bareboat charter agreements for the leasing of six ultra-large containerships with a near record-setting carrying...

A Simple System Purifies All The Drinking Water For a Remote Mexican Village https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Till recent times, soda was cheaper than bottled water in La Mancalona, a village in the jungle of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula.  As...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Statoil has made the final investment decision to build the world’s first floating wind farm: The Hywind pilot park offshore Peterhead in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. This will entail investments of around NOK2bn ($235m). Statoil will install a...

Firefighters from across Tyne Wear Fire and Rescue services rushed to the port after the Port of Tyne raised a fire alert on a cargo ship. Incident : Fire Vessel Involved : A Cargo Ship Cargo on board : Thousands...