Intoxicated Dublin Boaters Blocked Cruise Ship from Navigating in Shipping Lanes
According to Newsweek report, a 4,000-ton cruise ship was blocked from entering a port in Dublin, Ireland, by a small sailing boat of drunk...
Budapest Cruise Accident Captain Has a History! Arrested Before in Separate Accident
The captain of a river cruise ship involved in a deadly collision last week with a smaller pleasure boat in Budapest is already under...
Afro-Americans Heal As They Gather To Hear the Last Slave Ship Story: Clotilda
According to a National Geographic article by JOEL K. BOURNE, JR., hope swirled through the packed gymnasium of the aptly named Robert Hope Community...
Maersk Implements Digital Certificates for Seafarers
According to an article published in the Maritime Digitalisation and Communications, AP Moller-Maersk is leading a pilot project to test using digital certificates for seafarers...
Total Marine Fuels Shows How To Prepare for IMO 2020
According to a Platts article, the global bunker supplier Total Marine Fuels Global Solutions has announced that they have successfully conducted several trials of...
Cruise Ship Employees Reveal 7 Most Annoying Things Passengers Do
For some cruise ship workers, interacting with passengers can be a blessing and a curse. Mark Matousek writes about the experience of 39 current...
IMO Gears Up To Investigate Scrubbers’ Washwater
In a recent development, the International Maritime Organization’s MEPC, Marine Environment Protection Committee, announced that they will investigate open-looped scrubbers' discharge, in particular, the...
Cruise Ship Design for the Human Scale
The Spring/Summer 2019 issue of International Cruise & Ferry Review published suggestions given by YSA Design chairman Trond Sigurdsen, why cruise lines could pay...
Chevron To Bring IMO Compliant Shipping Fuel
Chevron plans to bring an IMO-compliant 0.5% sulphur shipping fuel blend to the market by the end of the third quarter, reports Reuters.
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Ocean Freight Rates Set To Rise as Shippers Struggle To Install Scrubber Equipment
With IMO deadline just months away, shipping lines are scrambling to fit scrubbers, but some are finding they have left it too late...