100K-ton, 1,100-foot-long Supercarrier Ready To Join The Fleet

USS Gerald R Ford, the most expensive warship ever built, is expected to join U.S.Navy by September.A Navy official said that the $12.9 billion...

MPA Announces Skills Future – Earn And Learn Programme For Singapore

UPDATE ON INITIATIVES TO PROMOTE SEAFARING CAREERS: STRUCTURED ON-THE-JOB TRAINING (OJT) SEA SERVICE PROGRAMMES1. The Tripartite Maritime Manpower Taskforce for Seafarers (TF-Sea)1, chaired by  Maritime...

BDI: 500 Points On! Nevertheless Bulker Numbers In Excess!!!

Last Week, the Baltic Dry Index reached the 500 mark one more time which is the highest for this year.  It is visible that...

Change In Bunker Surveyors Function For MFM Deliveries

Change In Bunker Surveyors Function For Mass Flow Metres Deliveries In previous mfame articles we discussed about Provisional Standard For Mass Flow Metering Systems and the introduction...

MOL Unveils The Hull Design For Next Generation Car-Carrier

MOL has announced that its next generation car carrier will feature the energy-saving rounded bow, which can minimise the CO2 emissions.A joint research by...

Bulker Captain Fell To Death During Rescue Exercise

Master of a bulk carrier killed in lifeboat fall and several crew were injured during a rescue exercise, off Indonesia.Reports say that the bulker...

Failed Pirate Attack off Nigeria, Again!

A crude oil tanker was targeted by a group of Armed pirates and reports say that they attempted boarding it near Nigerian coast.The Crude...

Shippers’ Guide For The Container Weight Mandate

Here is a guide for the shippers of packed cargo containers in regard with SOLAS Amendment that will come into effect from 1st July...

Tek Sing: The Titanic Of The East

The Tek Sing was a large three-masted Chinese ocean-going junk ship that operated in and around the busy South China Sea trade routes during...

A Layman Solved What Engineers Can’t – A Real Life Story!

When you experience technical problems and you are unable to fix the problem yourself, what do you do? If you are the Chief Engineer...