Incident : Vessel grounding Vessel Involved : Containership Sylt Location : Bremerhaven Pollution : Oil spill The vessel, en route from Vuosaari, Finland to Copenhagen, Denmark, arrived at the German port and grounded in a sandy shallow.  The initial assessment revealed that...

Open-water swimmer Simon Holliday swam from Hong Kong to Macau on 24 May 2014.  In that he created a record for fastest swim from Hong Kong to Macau: 35 km in 10 hours and...

Accident : Fire Vessel Involved : Awassi Express, a livestock carrier Cargo Onboard : Grains Date : 3rd November 2015 Location : Off the coast of Victoria in Australia Casualties : None A livestock carrier, carrying grains, caught fire at Portland, off the coast of Victoria...

"Enekarte" is a  vessel inspection system based on tablet computer.  This was developed in cooperation with Azbil Corporation (a major Japanese provider of instrumentation devices) by MOL (TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd) capable of onboard Inspection,...

The strike by pilots and tugs in the Greek port of Piraeus began at 6:00 am local time (0400 GMT) Monday and was scheduled to last till 6:00 am on Wednesday.  The strike affected...

One of the most important projects of modern Greece, which played a catalytic role for the Mediterranean trade, the canal of the Isthmus of Corinth, has constituted an inspiration for centuries and was completed...

One common problem which the shipboard staff experience with the hydraulic oil systems, especially the mooring winches and anchor/windlass hydraulic systems is - “Contamination and High Particle counts”. Viswa Lab reports that almost 60% of...

Fatigue may have contributed to mistakes which led to a fire onboard a cableship during a bunkering operation. The French accident investigation body BEAmer said an engineer officer coordinating the refuelling on the 13,978 GT...

A male student at University of California, Merced who stabbed four others was shot dead in the University of California, Merced. A male student and a resident of California who was living in the campus...

IMO is authorised under MARPOL Annex VI to establish ECAs where vessels have to control and reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulphur oxides (SOx).  Currently there are four ECAs, comprising the Baltic Sea, the...