Storm Alert! Ship Boardings Halted

All pilot boardings were suspended Tuesday at the mouth of the Mississippi River due to deteriorating weather conditions resulting from a tropical disturbance in...

Sailors were Trapped Alive Inside Flooding USS Fitzgerald

The Navy is investigating the horrifying possibility that some of those who died on the USS Fitzgerald when it sank may have been trapped...

Shipping Confidence Hits Three-year High

Shipping confidence reached its equal highest rating in the past three years in the three months to end-May 2017. The average confidence level expressed by...

LNG Bunkering Market Worth Over $12bn by 2024

The Industry Share report “LNG Bunkering Market By Product (Truck-to-Ship, Port-to-Ship, Ship-to-Ship, Portable Tanks), By End-Use (Container Vessels, Cruise-ships, Bulk Carriers, Ferries, Offshore Support...

Heavy Oil Pollution After Rupture of Fuel Pipe

A fuel pipe rupture has lead to a massive oil pollution in the Baltic Sea. What happened? On June 16, 2017, a fuel pipe broke under...

Tankers and Bulkers in Demand in the Newbuilding Market

Newbuilding ordering activity remains in high ground, especially when compared to the same period of 2016. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Allied Shipbroking...

[Watch] Sailors Death Trap Aboard the Navy Destroyer

The Navy is investigating the horrifying possibility that some of those who died on the USS Fitzgerald when it sank may have been trapped...

Ships Without Cyber Security to be Detained From 2021

IMO has given shipowners and managers until 2021 to incorporate cyber risk management into ship safety, giving the industry another issue to deal with. Ships...

Cobbling Insulation Causes Smoke Development

In the Rhine port of Mannheim the water police were notified about a potential dangerous goods leakage on board the "Bitumina III", 1207 ts,...

IBIA Flags up Flashpoint Issue in Relation to Sulphur Cap

IMO meeting gives importance to flashpoint and other safety implications IBIA contributed to a discussion at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) last week regarding the...