[Watch] Listed Vessel Drifting In The Bay Of Biscay

  A cargo vessel, loaded with 3600 tons of timber and construction machinery, started listing some 148 miles off Cape Ortegal, Galicia, in the...

Sudden Release of Stored Pressure Energy – Crewman Lost An Eye

Safety plays the most important role in all our activities.  Carelessness or poor risk awareness can be very dangerous.  The following incident teaches us...

Oil Cargo Hose Snapped Spilling Palm Oil into a River

A moving tanker’s anchor entangled with a berthed vessel mooring ropes which ripped apart the pipes causing the oil leak into the river at...

Baltic Dry Index – How Low Can It Go & How Long Can It...

How Low? : The Baltic Dry Index ended Friday 29 January at 317, which is never been seen before level. Recent deals suggest that shipowners are...

The Defiance: A Sailing Ship Frozen In Time

Lake Huron is host to hundreds of sunken vessels, some of them quite historic.  The wrecks in these waters are extremely well preserved due...

A Ferry Collided With a Cargo Ship Off Livorno

Accident type  : Collision Vessels involved : A passenger ferry and a cargo ship. Reason identified : Bad weather and strong wind Location  : Livorno outer anchorage in Italy A passenger ferry...

‘Half-Baked’ Container Ships Find Work In Wind Power Sector

Siemens’ Wind Power & Renewables Division will save 20% in transportation costs by using two uncompleted container ships to serve as specialized carriers of...

[Update] Modern Express -May Hit Coast By Tuesday

A specialised team along with a Spanish tug tried to tow the cargo ship near Gironde coast, but was unsuccessful because of bad weather...

81 Year Old Captain Convicted in 81,000 dwt Tanker Prestige Case

Spain’s Supreme Court has issued verdict of two-years jail for the Master of the tanker which sank off Spain’s northwestern coast in 2002. According to...

Legendary Principal Dies Saving Children

Indianapolis’s Amy Beverland Elementary school principal died in a road accident. Susan Jordan principal of Indianapolis’s Amy Beverland Elementary was a legendary women who always...