Moonfruit Goes Offline On Cyber-Attack

The Moonfruit service had taken offline thousands of business and personal websites hosted by it when threatened with a cyber-attack.On Thursday, 10th  December, the...

Newest Navy Ship Loses Propulsion And Limps Into Port

$360 million Navy ship LCS Milwaukee towed to port after breaking down off Virginia.The U.S. Navy’s newest littoral combat ship had to be towed...

Fire On A Tanker Shuts Houston Ship Channel Temporarily

Accident : FireDate : 14th December 2015Location : Houston Ship Channel, United StatesCasualties/Pollution : Nil The Chemical tanker, which was moored outside the Targa LPG export terminal, caught fire...

Evergas and JHW Contracts For Four New Carriers

Evergas and JHW Engineering & Contracting will jointly build six INEOS MAX 32,000M3 liquefied ethane/ethylene carriers.Copenhagen-based Evergas and Hong Kong-listed JHW Engineering & Contracting...

Uncertainties in Implementing BWM Convention

Three areas of uncertainty exist concerning the implementation of the International Ballast Water Management (BWM) Convention:35% Threshold Tonnage Entry Into Force Date D2 Standard Implementation SchemeThe...

MV Le Joola: Catastrophe At Sea

Accident type : WreckedVessel involved : MV Le JoolaLocation : Coast of GambiaDate : September 26, 2002Casualties : 1,863 deathsVESSEL INFO:Name : MV Le JoolaBuilt  : 1990Class & type : Roll-on/roll-off...

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Ideal For LNG Vessels

The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd (VTT) is leading a project to develop  the solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) that could be...

How To Mitigate Legal Risks When Purchasing Bunkers

How To Mitigate Legal Risks When Purchasing Bunkers – Lessons learned from the OW Bunker collapseIt is almost a year since OW Bunker & Trading...

World’s First Natural Gas-Fuelled LNG Carrier

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering has completed the trial sail of the world’s first LNG fuelled environment-friendly and high-efficiency carrier.  It  is expected to...

Ship To Shore Cranes Blend With The Surrounding

Konecranes believe the two ship-to-shore (STS) cranes to be the most silent and eco-efficient cranes in the world.  The two cranes delivered by Konecranes...