The Merger of Two Giants Afoot – Cosco & China Shipping

The two state-owned Chinese shipping giants China Ocean Shipping Co. (Cosco) and China Shipping Group Co. are currently the world's sixth and seventh largest...

Husnu Ozyegin Buys Piraeus Port

Fiba Holding is the owner of a 65% stake for a healthy price of $940m, in Turkish container terminal Kumport and Ozyegin.  Mr Ozyegin...

Hero Doctor Helps to Delivers Baby On Flight

Dr. Angelica Zen, a UCLA Resident Physician, was returning from her honeymoon in an overseas flight when a fellow passenger went into early labor. Dr....

Typhoon Alert For Philippines

Typhoon Koppu moved towards main Philippine island of Luzon on Friday.  This prompted storm alerts in nearly 20 provinces and placing army and police...

Tanker Delivered to Concordia Maritime

Stena Important was delivered on 15 October from the Chinese shipyard GSI (Guangzhou Shipbuilding International) in Guangzhou to Concordia Maritime. The vessel, a 50,000...

Biofuel From Bacteria – New Research

Professor Richard Kohn, an animal and avian sciences Ph.D., along with Seon-Woo Kim, a faculty research assistant at the University of Maryland has discovered...

New MD For Scandinavian Bunkering

The global marine fuel supplier, Scandinavian Bunkering, has announced their new Managing Director.  Erik Vinde, the COO of the company, takes the helm.  He...

Kochi: India’s Favourite Bunkering Service Point

Last week about 90,000 MT of ship fuel was delivered at port Kochi.  The supplies came from all port suppliers between the months of...

Sister Ship Inspection Records Show El Faro Problems

The 790-foot cargo ship El Faro built in 1975, sank this month off the coast of the Bahamas in the middle of a...

Quick-Witted Shipmaster Foils Piracy Bid

Early yesterday morning the Liberian- registered oil tanker carrying 90,000 metric tonnes of marine fuel oil worth US$23mil (RM95mil) entered the Malaysian waters when...