Vessel Scrapping: Record Year for Container Ships in 2016

The ship breaking industry is set to end 2016 on a positive note, having experienced a record high volume of box ship scrapping. Mainly due...

3 Vessels from Norway Seized

A Norwegian ship lessor has been caught in the debt web of Swiber Holdings, with three of its vessels in Singapore arrested by a...

Fire on a Boat Claims 23 Lives and Injures Many

On January 1, 23 people were killed and dozens injured on Sunday after a fire ripped through a boat carrying nearly 250 people to...

Skangas Make First Small Scale LNG Reload at Klaipeda

Skangas signed an agreement with Statoil, the Norwegian oil and gas company, for a small-scale LNG reload to take place at the Klaipeda LNG...

Plane Accidentally Drops Anti-ship Missiles

Anti-ship missiles accidentally dropped into Sea A South Korean military plane has accidentally dropped anti-ship missiles into the Sea of Japan (or the East...

Video Based Case Study on VLCC Collision & Propeller Fouling

VLCC Collision & Propeller Fouling Learn from others’ accidents.  Watch an accurate reenactment of a collision involving an undisclosed VLCC tanker. Disclaimer: This video is intended...

[Watch] Virtual Reality Training for Offshore Blade Installation

The installation of todays giant wind turbines at sea is not an easy task and demands highly skilled technicians.  Now our people train the...

Top New Year’s Shots from Around the World

Fireworks explode over the Arc de Triomphe monument as part of New Year celebrations on January 1, 2017 in Paris. (AFP PHOTO / LIONEL...

11 Ships have Wrecked on New Year’s Eve

Approximately eleven ships have been wrecked off New Jersey over a period of two hundred years on New Year’s Eve.  Here’s a potpourri of...

Top 10 Accidents Read in MFAME in 2016

Few accidents in 2016 were unforgettable.  Here are the Top 10 Accidents of 2016. 1. Tanker Explosion Throws Worker 80 Metres On Wednesday, the product tanker...