31 – A Prime Age For Seafarers To Take Up Jobs Ashore!

Maritime CEO Forum in Singapore kickstarted an important debate on what every seafarer undergo in their peak of their career life.  Should seafarers ditch...

Fire On Board An Ethylene Carrier At Sinopacific Shipyard

Accident Fire Date 14th March 2016 Vessel type Ethylene Carrier(under construction) Location Sinopacific Offshore & Engineering’s Qidong Fengshun Shipyard According to the reports, an ethylene carrier which was under construction at the...

Fatigue! – The Root Cause For A Bunker Tanker To Run Aground

A fuel tanker ran aground in Nunavut in 2014 after its fatigued crew made a wrong turn in Chesterfield Inlet. Incident: The Bunker tanker was on...

General Slocum Sinks Killing 1,021 Souls

The General Slocum was a passenger steamboat built in Brooklyn, New York, in 1891.  The General Slocum was named for Civil War General and...

Save Upto 6% Fuel Annually – With Dynamic AC system

With the DAC - All electrically propelled vessels can save at least 6% fuel annually. ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, is launching...

Use of Torch Lights Inside a Ballast Tank Kills Three

Every shipboard activity has a high-risk factor associated with it. May it be in the engine room or in the cargo area, the risks...

OOPS! – Bunker Fuel Spilled At Los Angeles

A Pure Car Carrier(PCC) leaks oil off Los Angeles in the west coast port Yesterday at 7:25 PM. The 2007 built car carrier left a...

[Watch] Oil Leaks From A Car Carrier At Port Of LA

Incident : Oil Spill Location : Port of LA Vessel Type : Car carrier Amount of spill : Not available A cargo ship spilled oil into the sea during its refueling operations...

[Watch] Dolphin Stampede

  Whale watchers,  looking to catch a few glimpses of the animals were in for a surprise when hundreds of dolphins began racing and...

Woman Seafarers, Sexual Harassment On the High Seas

The Philippines started deploying women marine deck officers and marine engineers on international vessels in the late 1990s, sending 1,404 of them to sea...