Videotel’s Training Covers 10 Million Training Events

Videotel’s Training Covers 10 Million Training Events in 12,000 Vessels Worldwide Videotel, a company of KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI), is the leading international provider...

Product Tankers Collide In The Arctic

Accident : Collision Date : 12th November 2015 Vessels Involved : Svyatoy Petr and Svyatoy Pavel Location : The Laptev Sea, north of Russia Casualties/Pollution : Nil The two small clean product tankers involved...

Use Data Analytics to Improve Shipboard Operations and Energy Efficiency.

  Please Feel Free to Download the VEEMS (Viswa Energy Efficiency Management System) Architecture and Supplement below: (Disable Pop-up Blockers to allow Download) Marine Maintenance is not...

Coffee Drinkers Can Have Long Life

A new study suggests that people who drink a lot of coffee have lower rates of death Research revealed that people who drank 1 to...

Be Watchful! Your Fumigated Cargo Hold Can Explode

Are you aware of fumigation? Fumigation is is a method of pest control that completely fills an area with gaseous pesticides or fumigants to suffocate...

[Watch] Collision of Ships on River Crossing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be “Wec van Ruysdael" crashes into "Paula" on starboard side and steering to hard to port.. Watch the collision in the bolbous bow.  The collision lasted...

Paris Attacks: Commemoration With A Minute’s Silence

A minute of silence has been held across Europe to commemorate the victims of Friday's attacks. Background: On November 13th, 2015, a series of terrorist attacks...

Elektrans Shipping Expands Its Fleet

Mumbai-based Elektrans Shipping (formerly Doehle Danautic) has announced the acquisition of Japanese-built 149,834dwt suezmax tanker Distya Akula, co-owned with Arya Industries. The 1995-built tanker which...

Stena Germanica To Get The Second Methanol Engine

By next month, Stena Rederi is to convert a second engine to methanol fuelled ro-pax Stena Germanica.  Stena hopes to have all four engines...

SS Mont-Blanc : A Massive Explosion Devastates A City

Accident type : Explosion Vessels involved : SS Mont-Blanc and SS Imo Date : December 6, 1917 Casualties : 2,000 died and 6,000 injured VESSEL INFO: Name : SS Mont-Blanc Built in : 1899 Flag : France Type : General...