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,...

Singtel Launches All-In-One Smartbox Mobile App

Event: Launch of Mobile App.Date : 27th August 2015.Place : The Grand Park Orchard in Singapore.Chief Guest : Head of Singtel satellite Group, Mr. Lim Kian Soon.A...

Chinese Registered Vessel Sinks

Accident : CapsizeDate : September 3rd, 2015Vessel involved : MV. Zhe Pu 01833Location : China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan PortCasualties : NoneThe vessel reportedly lost engine power when it sailed close to China’s Ningbo-Zhoushan port.  The failed...

Private Cruise Terminal in the Port Of Barcelona

Carnival Corporation has signed a €30million deal to build and operate its second private cruise terminal in the Port of Barcelona, one of the...

Do Real Women Visit Ashley Madison, The Infidelity Site?

Ashley Madison is an infidelity dating website which has around 36 million members of whom hardly 12,000 are women reveals an article by Gizmodo,...

Funniest Mobile Phone Joke In Edinburgh Fringe

The following pun by comedian Darren Walsh has won the prize for funniest joke of the Edinburgh Fringe: "I just deleted all the German names...

Stateless Ship Up For Auction

The Libyan government has put up the oil tanker M/T Morning Glory on auction.  Earlier, the vessel that was transporting crude oil from Es...