Vessel Breaks Apart, Sends Barges Across Mississippi River

The Coast Guard has closed the Mississippi River from mile marker 771 to mile marker 750 approximately 20 miles north of Memphis, Tennessee, Saturday. The...

Major Rescue Saves Crew from Sinking Cargo Ship Off Dover

On November 20, as powerful Storm Angus lashed parts of UK, a cargo ship crashed into another vessel near Dover.  All twenty-three crew members...

Bulker Grounded, Ordered to Port by Coast Guard

On November 19, the U.S Coast Guard monitored the transit of a motor vessel that had run aground in the Columbia River near Skamokawa,...

MOL Finalises Hull Logo Design for Next-generation Car Carriers “FLEXIE”

The Shipping firm Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has finalized logo design for their next-generation car carriers named “FLEXIE”. The unveiling of the logo is said to...

Reefer Delight: How Maersk Line Uses IoT on the Open Seas

Ahead of her keynote at IoT World in Dublin later this November, Maersk Line’s Catja Hjorth Rasmussen talks about how the company uses IoT to...

Mystery as Wrecks of Three Dutch WWII Ships Vanish from Java Seabed

There are fears the sunken vessels off Indonesia, which are the graves of 2,200 people, may have been salvaged for metal. An international investigation has...

Green Award Signs Up MarineTraffic & Danaos

AIS vessel tracking service, MarineTraffic, has joined the Green Award scheme. An increasing number of ship operators are using intelligence derived from AIS data to...

Cargo Ship Crew Save Drowning Man from River Thames

The crew of a cargo ship told how they helped save a drowning man from the Thames.  The Polla Rose was leaving Comley’s Wharf in...

New Exclusive Correspondent in Western Canada

Merle McKenzie, of All West P&I Services Ltd, becomes the Shipowners’ Club exclusive Correspondent in Western Canada. The Shipowners’ Club, the leading P&I insurer in...

Polluter-pay Approach to Abandoned, Derelict and Wrecked Vessels

Oceans Protection Plan includes robust polluter-pay approach to abandoned, derelict and wrecked vessels Canada’s new $1.5 billion national Oceans Protection Plan involves a raft of...