One common problem which the shipboard staff experience with the hydraulic oil systems, especially the mooring winches and anchor/windlass hydraulic systems is - “Contamination...

Fatigue may have contributed to mistakes which led to a fire onboard a cableship during a bunkering operation. The French accident investigation body BEAmer said...

A male student at University of California, Merced who stabbed four others was shot dead in the University of California, Merced. A male student and...

IMO is authorised under MARPOL Annex VI to establish ECAs where vessels have to control and reduce nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulphur oxides (SOx)....

Battle To Save A Cargo Ship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Nine crew members are missing after their boat sank off the coast in stormy conditions. Rescue workers are also...

The Greatest Marine Horrors On Record Accident type : Collision Vessels involved : PS Lady Elgin and schooner Augusta Location : Lake Michigan Date : September 8, 1860 Casualties : About 300 lives VESSEL INFORMATION: Name :...

Hong Kong’s economy owes a great deal to the container port industry.  The combined midstream services of Hong Kong terminal operators (Hutchison Port Holdings...

Rotterdam Maasvlakte II terminal set a loading record last month on the Madison Maersk with 17,152 TEU loaded, including ten high above deck stowage....

On November 2, Alice Oldendorff, Portuguese-flagged bulk carrier (owned by Oldendorff Carriers of Lübeck) was sailing from Canada to New York when a Ukrainian...

In Finland, Hanasaari coal power plant at central and Salmisaari power plants at Helsinki produce roughly 50% of the heat in the entire region,...