A framework agreement between Trelleborg Offshore operations and Statoil, for the supply of Passive Fire Protection Solution, has been signed.  The fire protection product, FireNut, will be manufactured at the facility in Krokstadelva, Norway. FireNut: The...

USCG’s New Acceptable NOAD Formats comes into Force From October As per the newly published Notice of Arrival/Departure (NOAD) regulation Title 33 Code of Federal Regulations Part 160, the NVMC will no longer accept NOAD...

Accident type : Vessel Grounding Vessel type : General Cargo Ship Vessel involved : Turkey flagged vessel managed by Latvian company Astramar Transport. Location : Weser river in Bremerhaven, Germany. En Route : Estonia to Morocco Casualties : None 1985 built 2,859 DWT cargo vessel was adrift by strong current.  The accident occurred...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0_MmEO7o4&feature=youtu.be VT Halter Marine, Inc., a subsidiary of VT Systems Inc., is progressing its work towards the construction of the two ships El Coqui (ko-kee) and Taino (tahy-noh).  This project began in the month of November 2013....

Typhoon Dujuan passed through Taiwan for three hours on Monday night, where it killed two, injured hundreds and left hundreds of thousands without power or water. On Tuesday morning, Dujuan made landfall in southeastern...

Annual golf fundraiser for the Squaw Valley Institute was organised in Olympic Valley where Erik Lars Roner, aged 39, died in a skydiving accident.  He was one among the participants at the charity golf...

Baltic Exchange CEO, Jeremy Penn, is to quit from the role by next summer.  He has served the company for nearly twelve and a half years.  The search for his successor has already started. Jeremy...

Accident : Food Poisoning onboard Vessel Involved : Nefryt, a general cargo vessel Casualties : 2 dead and 13 hospitalised The general cargo ship started its voyage from Ivory Coast when the deadly food poisoning broke out.  The Chief and...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW0_MmEO7o4&feature=youtu.be The Dpulsar system is a counter-rotating propeller system that can operate on the water line. Barry Davies, a New Zealand inventor, invented this system that bridges the technology gap between propellers and waterjets. Highlights: The...

This year the Big 3 shipbuilders sat across the table for wage negotiations between labor and management. On Sept. 22, the labor union of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. (DSME) voted for and reached...