Caution! Heat from Fuel Tanks Can Damage Your Cargo
Fuel oil in tanks bordering cargo holds release excessive heat that can damage bulk and bagged agricultural products.
What Can Happen?
When the fuel oil is...
All I Want For Christmas Is You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be
It was Mariah Carey’s Christmas classic All I Want For Christmas Is You, but as you have probably never heard it before.
Earlier this week,...
Weekend Party Spoiled as Containership Suffers Engine Damage on Friday!
A Cargo Ship And a lifeboat needed assistance in rough weather.
Accident type
: Engine failure
Vessel type
: Cargo vessel and its salvage tug.
Location
: Off the Cornish...
[Watch] Biggest Moments in 2015 – From GOOGLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YgwocSX5ds&feature=youtu.be
The video features ‘the 2015 biggest moments’ and the related searches in the year. The searches has inspired trillion of questions.
Explore the year's biggest...
The New Concept Of ‘Hydricity’ Uses Solar Energy To Produce Power Round-The-Clock
"Hydricity" concept, proposed by researchers, is aimed at creating a sustainable economy by not only generating electricity with solar energy but also producing and...
A ‘Silver Bullet’ to Prevent Water Ingress into Cargo Holds
One of the important factors predicting the seaworthiness of a vessel is the ability to resist the seawater ingress into the internal spaces. However,...
Downtrend In Vessel Valuations
The bulker market values continued their downward trend. The Baltic Dry Index reached another all-time low, since 1985.
The sale of the Pierre LD 171,900...
How a King Cobra Travelled From Singapore to United States!
A stow-away Indian Cobra was rescued from a container ship bound for the APM Terminals at the Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal in New Jersey....
Tragic Night At Sea: Birkenhead Wreck
Accident type
: Wrecked
Vessel involved
: HMS Birkenhead
Location
: Gansbaai
Date
: 26th February 1852
Casualties
: 450 deaths
VESSEL INFO:
Name
: HMS Birkenhead
Built
: 1845
Class & type
: Frigate, later troopship
Tonnage
: 1400...
Cancer Is Due To Environment Factors
Cancer is not due to bad luck but a result of environmental factors, a study suggests
Cancer is caused by one of the body's own...