[Watch] Tanker Grounding Near Antwerp After Collision with Bulker

A video animation created from satellite data has retraced the path of tanker Seatrout, which ran aground near Antwerp after a collision with bulk...

Trump Administration Announces New Travel Ban

The Trump administration has unveiled new travel restrictions on certain foreigners from Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen as a...

Singapore to Trial Marine Biofuels

Can biofuels provide a sustainable power alternative to the shipping industry? A new collaborative project in Singapore is going to test the idea. The Maritime and Port Authority...

How Technology Makes Ports More Efficient

Taking a look at the world around us, it is clear that technology is making boundless industrial and societal processes more efficient. From online...

Lack of Comprehensive Maintenance Checks Could Cost Lives

A bosun who was rigging an accommodation ladder on a 265-metre cargo ship, ended up lost at sea when the steel wire securing his...

First Fully LNG Cruise Ship Builds Starts

The construction work has commenced recently, on AIDA Cruises’ new AIDAnova, Carnival Corporation and this will be fully powered by the first of seven...

[Watch] Dramatic Rescue of a Family from Capsized Vessel

The Coast Guard released video Friday of a dramatic rescue off Puerto Rico as Hurricane Maria battered the island. The video shows a British helicopter...

Alang: Looking at a Healthier Future

There is always something morbid about a place where things are taken apart, piece by piece, after the end of their useful lives, and...

IMO Conducts Exercise on Maritime Security in Lima, Peru

The IMO conducted a national tabletop exercise on maritime security in Lima, Peru (18-19 September) to support the country to implement the United Nations...

Freighter Collided with Breakwater

On Sep 21, a general cargo ship Micurazan Maru collided with breakwater at Tadaira, Hirado island, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The vessel was en route...