Oil Spill Due To Vessel Grounding Off Papua Guinea

Vessel Grounding Off Papua Guinea Ends In Oil Spillage Incident : Vessel Grounding Vessel type : Passenger/Cargo Vessel Location : Near the Talele Island nature reserve in Papua New Guinea Casualties/Pollution :...

[Watch] Six Cruise Ships Tied Up at the Port’s Docks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be Watch the Port Canaveral was jammed with both spectators and cruise ship passengers as, for the first time ever, six cruise ships tied up...

Frozen Shipping Market Warming Up For 2016

The global shipping market has been fairly icy in 2015.  However the investors managed to overcome the chillness.  Let us see how hot has...

Challenges Faced By Maritime Industry of Nigeria

2015 will go down as the toughest year in  the maritime industry of Nigeria. At the beginning of the year 2015, operators in the industry...

Shell & Port of Antwerp Recommends LNG Bunkering in Europe

Shell’s fleet of barges, to be built by Netherlands shipbuilder VEKA at a Polish yard, will have six-cylinder 20DF dual-fuel main engines from Wärtsilä...

She Sank With 389 Men!

Hiryū was an aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).  It was the only one ship of her class, a modified Soryu...

60 Suffer from Gastro Problems – “A Floating Disaster Ship”

Pacific Eden, dubbed "floating disaster ship" and described as ‘worse than a one-star motel' by holidaymakers had returned to Sydney on Monday after a...

A Month without Spirit

New Scientist staff have teamed up with Rajiv Jalan at the Institute for Liver and Digestive Health at University College London Medical School (UCLMS) to investigate...

25 Years Of WWW

Tim Berners-Lee of Switzerland had on 20 December 1990 turned on the world’s first website.  The site was used internally by CERN scientists until...

Top Ship Designs in 2015 – a Review

The ship designers are hard at work to boost the fuel efficiency of the industry and help ship owners meet upcoming environmental regulations. GE Marine...