Container Carrier Ran Aground In Kiel Canal

The 8,634 DWT container carrier ran aground near Kiel Holtenau, Germany.  The vessel rammed breakwater bank by starboard and stuck hardly.  The captain of...

Baltic Index Inches Up & Speculations On SALT (Scorpio Bulkers) Up For A Sale!

Greetings readers. We are happy to write to you on this first day of the new month.  So what the shipping market has to say...

SS Grandcamp Exploded Killing 567 People

The SS Grandcamp was a re-activated 437-foot-long (133 m) Liberty ship.  The SS Grandcamp was originally named the SS Benjamin R. Curtis in Los...

Collision Between Chemical Tanker And Cargo Ship During An Ice Convoy!

Kara Sea witnessed the collision of a Chemical tanker with a Cargo ship which happened during an ice convoy escort.  Both giants are Russian...

Seafarer Falls Overboard A Bulker And Dies

A Chinese seafarer fell overboard and died over the weekend at the Port of Tauranga in New Zealand A seafarer was working on a bulker...

Don’t Drop Anchors In The Scapa Flow Area!

Don't Drop Anchors In The Scapa Flow Area! Torpedo-Like Object Found A 3280 feet exclusion zone has been marked for all ships and the divers...

Worker Fainted Aboard An Oil Tanker, Found Covered In Oil

The Sembcorp Marine Admiralty Yard, Singapore has reported on an incident where a person working on the repairs of a Russian flagged Oil Tanker...

[Watch] Pororoca, the Longest Wave on Earth

  One of the vast and overwhelming subject is Ocean.  Numerous changes happen under water.  Experts have analysed the top 10 uncovered phenomena.  One...

Shipwrecks Upon Land? Here Are Top 8 Of It!

When someone thinks of the word “shipwreck” they immediately picture wreckage beneath a lake or ocean.  However, there are shipwrecks above water, usually from...

Bunker Mass Flow Metering – A New Standard

A Provisional Standard For Mass Flow Metering Systems Mass Flow Metering system: A mass flow metering system aims at providing a fair basis for measuring the...