Maersk Implements Digital Certificates for Seafarers

According to an article published in the Maritime Digitalisation and Communications,  AP Moller-Maersk is leading a pilot project to test using digital certificates for seafarers...

Total Marine Fuels Shows How To Prepare for IMO 2020

According to a Platts article, the global bunker supplier Total Marine Fuels Global Solutions has announced that they have successfully conducted several trials of...

Cruise Ship Employees Reveal 7 Most Annoying Things Passengers Do

For some cruise ship workers, interacting with passengers can be a blessing and a curse. Mark Matousek writes about the experience of 39 current...

IMO Gears Up To Investigate Scrubbers’ Washwater

In a recent development, the International Maritime Organization’s MEPC, Marine Environment Protection Committee, announced that they will investigate open-looped scrubbers' discharge, in particular, the...

Cruise Ship Design for the Human Scale

The Spring/Summer 2019 issue of International Cruise & Ferry Review published suggestions given by YSA Design chairman Trond Sigurdsen, why cruise lines could pay...

Chevron To Bring IMO Compliant Shipping Fuel

Chevron plans to bring an IMO-compliant 0.5% sulphur shipping fuel blend to the market by the end of the third quarter, reports Reuters. Stringent IMO...

Ocean Freight Rates Set To Rise as Shippers Struggle To Install Scrubber Equipment

With IMO deadline just months away, shipping lines are scrambling to fit scrubbers, but some are finding they have left it too late...

Have $10,000 Per Night To Spend on a Cruise Ship?

According to an article published by Forbes, you can easily spend that much when you sail on the Regent Seven Seas Explorer, widely acknowledged...

Ship Insurers ‘Already Charging’ War Risk Premium for Fujairah Post-Sabotage Attacks

The Joint War Committee of insurance body Lloyd's Market Association on May 17 issued a circular. They have added Persian Gulf and adjacent...

Marshall Islands To Police IMO Infraction Case-by-Case

  Marshallese registry has decided to consider infraction on a case-by-case basis, in line with guidance from the IMO, which has set a sulphur limit...