Solar Battery Systems For Polar Cruise Ship

Naval architects have designed a luxury expedition cruise ship possessing a range of energy saving and emissions reductions technologies.  The vessel can undertake unrestricted...

Gazprom Signs Two Important Deals    

Gazprom is the only producer and exporter of LNG in Russia and pioneer among Russia’s largest oil producers. Gazprom announced on September 4th, 2015, about...

Windows Hello Offers 100% User Security

Microsoft’s operating system Windows is very popular among computer users. After Windows 8, Microsoft launched Windows 10 a little over a month ago skipping...

A Camera To Reduce Ship’s Crew Working Hours

A high-tech camera has been developed by Japan’s NYK Line and Monohakobi Technology Institute - that can “automatically photograph” the inside of a...

Contaminated Lube Oil Caused Engine Damage

Vessel Type Container Ship Location At Sea Casualty None/ Major Engine Damage The Incident: The vessel was sailing in good weather.  There was a high lube oil temperature alarm during...

Wärtsilä to Retrofit BWMS for Entire Fleet.  

Wärtsilä provides complete lifecycle power solutions for the marine and energy markets.  Recently, they have won a contract with German-based M/s. Bernhard Schulte GmbH...

Underwater Drones to Safeguard Coral Reefs

Australia’s Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has come up with a world’s first autonomous robot, COTSBot that can seek and kill the crown-of-thorns starfish...

Appointment of Maritime Safety Division Director

Captain Ashok Mahapatra has taken the charge of new IMO Director, Maritime Safety Division.  He would be taking his position on 1st October 2015....

[Watch] How to Construct a Ship in 6 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMG1SdeYLFE&feature=youtu.be MK time-lapse from Hamburg, Germany have used their famed proprietary time-lapse cameras that can capture one 16mp frame every minute.  This camera was used...

Mississippi River: Towboats Collision Leads to Oil Spill

Accident : Collision. Date : 2nd September at 20:22 hours. Location : Mile marker 937, Mississippi River near Paducah, Kentucky. Oil Spillage : 250000 gallons of spilled into the river. Casualties : None. On Wednesday,...