Market Conditions Force Down Ship Operating Costs
The cost of operating cargo ships has fallen for two successive years but is forecast to rise in 2017 and beyond, according to the...
Underwater Drone with Surveillance, Short-range Attack Capabilities
Juliet Marine Systems, Inc. (JMS) unveiled plans to construct Guardian, a submersible unmanned surface vehicle (USV) that is a variation of JMS’ existing GHOST...
[Watch] How They Removed 1,400 Cars and a Sunk Ship
On 5th December 2012, the car carrier Baltic Ace sank with more than 1,400 cars on board after a collision with a container ship...
Exclusion Zone Set Up Around Fire Damaged Cargo Ship
The Story:
Salvage Control Unit officials are drawing up plans for a place of refuge for the fire ravaged bulk carrier V-Due.
What happened?
On 1st December,...
Watch an Anchor Handling Tug Supply Vessel Working
Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessels are mainly built to handle anchors for oil rigs, tow them to location, anchor them up and, in...
First Tugs with CAT Marine 3516E Tier 4 Engines
Caterpillar Marine reports that Horizon Shipbuilding, Bayou LaBatre, AL, is in the process of installing the first production EPA Tier 4 certified 3516E EPA...
Houston Ship Channel Reopens
The Story:
On Monday, the busiest United States petrochemical port to the Gulf of Mexico ‘Houston Ship Channel’ reopened after a fire damaged the ship...
Tragedy at Sea — Two Ships and Two Captains
At 9:30 a.m. on Nov. 4, 1875, the 223-foot side-wheel passenger steamship “Pacific” with about 275 on board sailed from Esquimalt Harbour on the...
Single-deck Dry Cargo Vessel Complete Sea Trials
Single-deck dry cargo vessel project RSD49 mixed "river-sea" navigation "Atameken" successfully completed sea trials in Lake Ladoga.
The vessel was built at Nevsky Shipyard for...
INTELLIAN FB250R and FB500R Terminals Approved for Use with Inmarsat’s FX Service
Intellian Technologies, the global leader in maritime satellite communication antenna systems, is pleased to announce that it’s FB250R and FB500R FleetBroadband terminals have received...