[Watch] Shipwreck Found in Arctic 168 Years After Failed Expedition

Bulker Aground in Lake Superior In 1845, Royal Navy officer Sir John Franklin set out with two ships—the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus—and a...

Shippers Boosting Pacific Lines After Hanjin Fall

Foreign shipping lines are increasing their transpacific routes after Korea’s largest shipper, Hanjin Shipping, filed for court receivership last month. Strategies Maersk The world’s largest shipper, Maersk...

Paint Cuts Ships’ CO2 Emissions by ‘Confounding’ Barnacles

A Japanese company has developed a special barnacle-busting paint that dramatically affects a ship's performance at sea.  When barnacles, green mussels, and other organisms...

Giant Spider Travels to Scotland in Shipping Container

Stowaway Huntsman spider found in Dumbarton shipping container The workers in London were in for a surprise when they encountered a poisonous tropical spider stowed...

Ship Size Too Large for Full Capacity Usage

The World’s Biggest Floating Natural Gas Terminal Can’t Get Steady Work Shipper Mitsui O.S.K. Lines thinks big.  Its new 40 billion yen ($394 million) floating...

One Killed, 3 Injured During Water Cannon Accident

The ship ‘Astro Tamoio’ owned by ‘Astromaritima Navegacao’ which was due for launch on 1st October has been involved in a water cannon accident...

Shipping Firm Fined £15,000 Over Workers Fall from a Crane

Derry Firm Fined £15,000 Over Workers Fall from a Crane Derry firm Burke Shipping services have been fined £15,000 for breaching the well-being and protection...

Savage Slide in Vessel Values Due to Low Oil Price

The first week of September 2016 got under way with the oil price making significant gains. However, these gains are only enough to drive...

Zika Alert! China Adds Singapore to List of Affected Countries

The Zika Virus *Update* Zika Virus: China Adds Singapore to the list of Affected Countries Further to our Industry News of 24 March 2016, we have...

Super Typhoon Targets Taiwan, Mainland China

Super Typhoon Targets Taiwan, Mainland China Super Typhoon Meranti will hold on to its intensity over next couple of days before pounding Taiwan with flooding...