The giant containership orderbook – equivalent to the extant fleets of Cosco, Hapag-Lloyd, Evergreen and Ocean Network Express (ONE) combined – is setting all manner of new records.According to brokers Braemar ACM, as of May 1 this year the capacity ...

Dutch sustainable shipping company EcoClipper revealed that its newly purchased ship, De Tukker, will start sailing from mid-August 2022. Bought in January this year, De Tukker is the first in a fleet of low-impact sailing ships which will tThe ...

Four of the cruise ships previously operated by Genting Hong Kong’s Star Cruises have been sold with reports indicating that at least three of them are expected to quickly arrive at the Asian scrapyards. The Joint Provisional Liquidators overseeing ...

C-Job Naval Architects have designed a brand new class of liquid hydrogen tanker that will revolutionize the renewable energy market. The tanker concept, developed in partnership with LH2 Europe, is a critical element in realizing a green end-to-end ...

Global Survival Technology pioneer Survitec is teaming up with Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd (NCLH), Independent Maritime Advisors Ltd, and a major shipbuilder to deliver a cruise ship design incorporating Survitec's Seahaven, the world's ...

Swire Shipping buys US's Westwodo Shipping Lines expanding in Pacific NorthwestWestwood Columbia is one of four 45,000 dwt ships Swire Shipping acquires with Westwood Shipping Lines (WSL)
Swire Shipping announced that it has signed a definitive ...

In an interview with the US Naval Institute, the US Chief Of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Mike Gilday, addressed the issue of US Navy ships returning to port covered in rust, saying that rust-free ships are critical for deterrence and naval ...

SummaryOn 26 August 2018, Wight Sky suffered a catastrophic main engine failure as it prepared to enter the Lymington River on its regular crossing from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. This was the ferry’s second catastrophic main engine failure in less ...

DYT, formerly known as DOCKWISE YACHT TRANSPORT was founded in 1987. The first sailing was under the name of Wijsmuller, a shipping company that specialized in heavy, off shore bulk transport and tugboats. During the oil crisis of the 80’s, ...

On April 26, Asahi, the world’s first pure battery tanker to operate completely on electricity, supplied the car carrier Victorious Ace with fuel at the Daikoku Pier C-1 Wharf in Yokohama, Japanese shipping major Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) ...

UK-based Artemis Technologies, a spin-off from the Artemis Racing America’s Cup sailing team, has released the first pictures of its 100% electric, high-speed foiling workboat prototype on Belfast Lough. The 11.5-metre vessel named Pioneer of ...

Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI) has started sea trials of the Stena Pro Patria, the first methanol-powered dual-fuel tanker constructed in China in what has been described as a 'watershed moment' in the development of methanol as an ...

The State of Maryland has asked Taiwanese liner Evergreen to establish a so-called responsibility fund to pay for costs related to the month-long grounding of its EVER FORWARD vessel in the state’s Chesapeake Bay.
 In a letter to Benjamin Tsai, ...

Seafarers are dying needlessly in lifeboat accidents when maritime legislation doesn’t actually require vessels to be manned during drills.
InterManager, the international trade association for ship and crew managers, is raising awareness of this ...

Leading Classification Society ClassNK has issued an Approval in Principle (AiP) for the design of an ammonia-ready LNG-fueled Panamax bulk carrier developed by Planning and Design Center for Greener Ships (GSC). Ammonia is expected to be used as ...

Brazilian law enforcement agencies arrested six people and confiscated 30 kilos of cocaine at the port of Santos, Brazil, according to the Brazilian news outlet G1 / Globo. The drug smugglers, five Brazilians and one Argentinian, were arrested at ...

At long last, the Ever Forward is free. After weeks of tugging, pulling, digging and dumping, the 1,095-foot cargo ship was pried from the muddy clutches of the Chesapeake Bay Sunday morning. Two pulling barges and five mighty tug boats manuevered ...

SynopsisOn 31 October 2020, 34 containers were lost overboard from the Netherlands registered general cargo vessel Francisca, near Duncansby Head in the North Sea. Francisca was on passage from Iceland to the Netherlands when severe weather ...

A week after the news came out that German retailing giant Lidl, part of the Schwarz Group, had filed a trademark to start a new shipping line to transport its goods, the company has reportedly reached agreements to charter three vessels and acquire ...

Navigating in fog can mean that emerging situations are diffcult to understand and, sometimes, stop. A ro-ro freight ferry was inbound to its destination port on a summer morning. The weather was fne and the seas slight, although there were ...

About 200 vessels have been supplied with contaminated bunker fuel in the latest environmental misconduct in the Port of Singapore. Of these, about 80 ships have reported various issues with their fuel pumps and engines, according to the Maritime ...

Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) and Seaborg on Monday (Apr11) announced signing a partnership agreement to develop floating nuclear power plants based on Seaborg's inherently safe Compact Molten Salt Reactor (CMSR). The agreement includes development ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is removing one container at a time in an effort to free a cargo ship that has been stuck in Chesapeake Bay for more than four weeks. NewsNation got an up-close look at the efforts to free the cargo ship EVER FORWARD The Coast ...

Newbuild m.v. BROUWERSGRACHT was launched from dry dock last Friday 8 April at Mawei shipyard in Fuzhou China. At the same time sister vessel m.v. BLOEMGRACHT was floated. M.v. BROUWERSGRACHT has been moved to the outfitting quay where the ...

The owners of an oil-production and storage ship had a history of financial problems before the vessel blew up in Nigerian waters two months ago. The TRINITY SPIRIT, which caught fire on Feb. 2, burned for more than 24 hours and left a stain of ...

A group of 14 organisations has released its new Vessel Reporting and Data Quality white paper, which calls for the maritime sector to create a new data standard aimed at evolving noon reports into holistic vessel reports to support vessel and ...

The war in Ukraine has focused attention on liquefied gas (LNG) to replace Russian supplies coming via pipeline. Germany, France and Italy are all planning to rent or acquire special floating terminals in order to increase import capacity. While ...

A tanker loaded with one million barrels of Russian oil set sail from Murmansk last month, headed for Philadelphia. Then, in the middle of the Atlantic, it did an abrupt U-turn. The ship, BEIJING SPIRIT, had apparently lost the buyer for its oil. ...

Classification society DNV has issued an Approval in Principle (AiP) for the design of a green ammonia tanker that also runs on green ammonia developed by LMG Marin, Wärtsilä and Grieg Edge. According to developers, the MS Green Ammonia got the AiP ...

In the early hours of a stormy winter’s day, a roll-on/roll-off passenger ferry (RoPax), which was laid up for the festive period, broke free from its moorings in winds gusting up to 55 knots (kts) (Figure 1). The master had anticipated storm force, ...

The fleet of insolvent Genting Hong Kong — those ships that sailed for Crystal Cruises, Dream Cruises and Star Cruises — will likely go to auction soon.Auctions are required as part of the legal liquidation process to clear any maritime liens ...

“ What maximum winds are expected in the storm area?” That is one of Standard Marine Communication Phrases under the International Maritime Organization (IMO) that officers in charge of navigation on ships, whatever their nationality, must be able ...

Another containership has reportedly fallen victim to storms in the Northern Pacific. Maersk is confirming reports that a chartered containership it operates suffered “a very serious incident,” with a collapse of container stacks and the loss of ...

  Global shipping lines made an astounding operating profit (EBIT) of over $110 billion in 2021. According to analysis by Sea-Intelligence, the combined 2010-2020 operating profit across all years was a combined figure of $37.54 billion, CEO Alan ...

China is the world’s largest exporter of containerized goods, produces eight of every 10 new containers, is the leading builder of container ships and operates the fourth-largest liner company. It should come as no surprise that China overwhelmingly ...

China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) on Monday (21 March) said its subsidiary has recently received an Approval-in-Principle (AiP) certificate from classification society DNV for an ammonia-fuelled 7,000-unit capacity car carrier (PCTC). The ...

TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and Oshima Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. on Wednesday (Mar23) announced the introduction plan of large-scale dry bulk vessel with a hard sail system was certified as "Introduction plan of vessel with excellent ...

For several months, the mysterious 140-metre-long, six-floor superyacht has towered over the smaller boats in the shipyard in Marina di Carrara, a town on Italy’s Tuscan coast, arousing chatter among its people over the identity of its wealthy ...

UK’s cleantech company Silverstream Technologies has been selected to equip nine 16,000 TEU containerships with its air lubrication systems Silverstream unveiled the order on 22 March 2022, without disclosing any further details on the boxships or ...

New Orleans-based start-up is working to develop a fleet of smaller, more efficient, electric-powered ships to help decarbonise the shipping industry that is responsible for about 3% of all carbon emissions worldwide. A team of the U.S. Merchant ...

Undersea footage reveals the ship’s diverse collection of sea stars, sponges, anemones, and even a rare deep-sea squat lobster During Ernest Shackleton's 1915 Antarctic expedition, his ship Endurance was crushed by ice. After 106 years, scientists ...

Already a few years ago, the fishery-inspection vessel of a European country wanted to conduct an inspection at sea of a fishing vessel. The fishing vessel was ordered to prepare a pilot ladder to allow the inspector to board the vessel. When the ...

Some of my best friends design ships for a living, but in their quest to devise dramatic solutions to the problems of decarbonising the shipping industry, I sometimes wonder if they might be going a bit over the top. I was looking recently at a ...

An original bill which has been carried on board has no practical value as evidence of title and the practice remains inherently risky because of the difficulty in verifying which party is entitled to possession of the cargo if none of the ...

Combination would establish a global marine insurer positioned to thrive in the face of current and emerging challenges and opportunities posed by digitalisation, recruitment, regulation and sustainability. North P&I and Standard Club have entered ...

Ministers and trade unions have condemned P&O Ferries’ mass sacking of 800 British seafarers to replace them with agency crew as shameful and “completely unacceptable”, amid furious calls for action against the company’s Dubai owners. P&O Ferries’ ...

Marine Service GmbH and Newport Shipping are proud to announce an Approval in Principle from Bureau Veritas (BV) for a jointly developed containerized LNG solution. The 40' ISO LNG Fuel Tank Container System is suitable for LNG-fuelled newbuildings ...

Yesterday was Carnival Cruise Line’s fiftieth (50th) birthday.  The internet was filled with celebratory tweets and Facebook postings from Carnival cruise fans and travel agents extolling the cruise line’s “family fun and entertainment.” There is ...

As part of today's agreement, Proman will aim to supply Maersk with 100,000 – 150,000 tonnes per year of green methanol from its new 200,000 tonnes per year methanol facility in development in North America. The project will be built by Proman with ...

The shipping industry is faced with a logistical and legal nightmare, in the aftermath of the events in Ukraine. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Intermodal said that “the escalating confrontation between Russia and Ukraine has the potential ...

Norsepower has announced an agreement signed with CLdN, the logistics specialist for road, sea and rail, to install two tilting Rotor Sails on board a 2018-built Ro-Ro vessel to improve ship fuel efficiency and carbon emissions reduction. ...

A new study finds that turbines can muddle ships' navigational systems, obscuring the location of smaller boats or creating misleading images on radar screens. OFFSHORE WIND DEVELOPMENT has the potential to transform the nation’s energy supply by ...

Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov’s superyacht, the world’s largest by volume, was seized by German authorities in Hamburg, according to Forbes. The German government has frozen the DILBAR, Usmanov’s 512-foot yacht, the publication said, citing ...

The obligation of seaworthiness is fundamental to contracts of carriage of goods by sea, but how far does that obligation reach? The award-winning shipping and maritime lawyers at Bahamas law firm ParrisWhittaker are highly experienced in advising ...

The ban includes any vessels owned or operated by anyone connected to Russia and authorities will also gain new powers to detain Russian vessels. The ban was introduced together with additional economic measures including against the Russian ...

  The Felicity Ace, the cargo ship that caught fire while carrying thousands of brand new Volkswagen, Porsche, and Lamborghini vehicles, sunk Tuesday morning (Mar 01), according to a press statement. The ship, which was carrying around 4000 cars, ...

The California Air Resources Board has reached a settlement agreement with Wan Hai Lines (USA), part of Taiwanese shipping company Wan Hai Lines, for $680,750 for violations of the Ocean-Going Vessels At-Berth Regulation. The regulation aims to ...

CHINA's biggest shipping company, Cosco Shipping Group, carries 10 per cent of the world's cargo and operates over 5.2 per cent of the world's fleet by deadweight tonnage, reports Colchester's Seatrade Maritime News. Cosco maintained its position ...

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Location: Near the North Shipwash Buoy, to the north of Harwich Haven Authority jurisdictional limits on the east coast of England. Completed preliminary assessment summary: Maud/Gardenia Seaways SynopsisAt about 0230 on 4 November 2021, the ...

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), representing 80% of the world’s merchant fleet, has warned of supply chain disruption should the free movement of Ukrainian and Russian seafarers be impeded. The Seafarer Workforce Report, published in ...

Last week, the Joint War Committee placed the Russian and Ukrainian parts of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in its top-risk category. The JWC is the little-known but powerful insurance industry body that classifies regions of the world according ...

Firefighters are struggling to put out a fire that broke out last week Wednesday on a vessel carrying thousands of luxury cars, which is adrift off the coast of Portugal’s Azores islands, a port official said, adding it was unclear when they would ...

Ocean Infinity has contracted VARD for the design and construction of a new series of six multi-purpose offshore vessels, all of which will be operated from shore and will eventually utilise green ammonia as fuel. This landmark order of six, ...

A misjudgment during navigation was the probable cause of the grounding of the 20,568 TEU Mumbai Maersk off the German island of Wangerooge earlier this month, an investigation has found. On 2 February 2022, at around 11:05 P.M., the ...

The Dutch coastguard said on Saturday it was trying to locate 26 empty shipping containers lost on the North Sea during Storm Eunice on Friday. The Panama-registered container ship MARCOS V lost the 40-foot (12-meter) containers around the Dutch ...

According to the International Group of P & I Clubs’ “Report on P&I claims involving vessels under pilotage 1999-2019”, over the last twenty years, there were 1,046 incidents in which pilot error either caused or contributed to those events. The ...

In November 2020, just off the coast of British Columbia in Canada, a huge wave was measured as being 17.6 meters (58ft) high, smashing all previous world records. While the four-storey wall of water is impressively tall, what makes it special and ...

An abandoned cargo ship packed with cars is adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, after a rapidly-spreading fire on board forced the crew to escape. The 656 foot-long Felicity Ace roll-on/roll-off car-carrying ship caught fire in the North Atlantic on ...

  Conversion of HIDDEN GEM to the world’s first polymetallic nodule vessel nears completion in Rotterdam harbour. There is a real buzz on board as final deliveries of custom-engineered equipment arrive. The project team and crew are busy ...

The U.S. Navy only operates nuclear-powered submarines. China meanwhile never stopped operating conventional submarines even though they are less capable. This has advantages and disadvantages. But a new submarine pushes this difference further. It ...

  The technology group Wärtsilä, together with the shipping company Grimaldi Group, have unveiled a new system that uses exhaust gas scrubber washwater to tackle the amount of microplastics in the world’s oceans; a critical and growing global ...

French company Grain de Sail has ordered its future cargo sailboat from compatriot shipbuilder Piriou, expanding its carbon-free maritime fleet. The shipbuilding contract was signed during the One Ocean Summit week in Brest aboard Grain de Sail 1 — ...

Colombia has taken a step toward recovering a long-lost Spanish wreck and its fabled riches, but it may be a rough ride as Spain and native Bolivians have also staked claims to the booty. Maritime experts consider the wreck of the San Jose to be the ...

Yesterday, seventy-two (72) out of two-hundred and thirty (230) crew members on the Silver Cloud operated by Silversea Cruises (Silversea Expeditions) tested positive for COVID-19, according to a crew member on the cruise ship who wishes to remain ...

First of 13 ABS Class Newcastlemax Vessels Ordered by Eastern Pacific Shipping The first LNG-fueled Newcastlemax bulk carrier in an order of 13 ABS-Classed vessels for Eastern Pacific Shipping (EPS) has taken on its first load of LNG bunker fuel at ...

At least three people have reportedly died while four are still missing following an explosion of the oil production and storage vessel, FPSO Trinity Spirit, in waters offshore Nigeria. The vessel exploded last Wednesday while 10 crew members were ...

The main features of Energy Observer 2 are: • Length: 120 meters • Width: 22 meters • Draft: 5,5 meters • The surface of the wings: 1450 m² • Deadweight: 5,000 tons • Containers: 240 TEU (Twenty feet equivalent) • Ro-ro bridge: 480 linear meters ...

The search for Ernest Shackleton’s wrecked ship Endurance has begun. In the endeavour, a South African icebreaker has already departed.    In 1915, Endurance had sunk off the coast of Antarctica. It happened after it was slowly crushed by pack ice. ...

A historian says he is a “nervous wreck” about plans to cut off the masts of a sunken WW2 cargo ship laden with explosives jutting out of the River Thames. The SS Richard Montgomery, nicknamed the £1 billion timebomb based on the amount of damage ...

A.P. Moller - Maersk has in collaboration with the National Meteorological Service of Germany, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), installed automated weather stations on 50 of its vessels. While crossing the largest oceans, the vessels transmit live data ...

The Crystal Symphony and the Crystal Serenity have been arrested late Friday night, February 4th, according to crew members on both ships. Both Crystal cruise ships are in waters near the port in Freeport, Bahamas. Earlier yesterday, we were ...

Joined by FedEx executives, Dr. Udo Lange, President/CEO of FedEx Logistics; Patrick Moebel, President of FedEx Trade Networks; and Jim Rinchiuso Managing Director, Global Ocean Product for FedEx Logistics; the Port of Hueneme, Navy Base Ventura ...

The Bahamas has been confirmed as a top-performing flag state, achieving positive scores across all 19 categories of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS)’s 2020-21 Flag State Performance Table. In ICS’s latest report, The Bahamas scored ...

LARGE fires on containerships are newsworthy events that gain attention even outside the world of shipping. In the past year, however, there has been a dearth of these incidents. With the exception of the fires on board X-Press Pearl and Zim ...

US-based cruise major Royal Caribbean International has taken delivery of Wonder of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, after three years of construction. A traditional flag-changing ceremony took place in Marseille, France on 27 January, ...

Boskalis has successfully salvaged the rudderless cargo vessel Julietta D off the Dutch coast. The vessel ran into trouble during yesterday's Storm Corrie. The Julietta D was anchored off the coast of IJmuiden (the Netherlands) but got into ...

"Automated Mooring" using an Automatic Flight Drone TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) today announced that together with its two group companies and the following consortium partners have successfully concluded the world's first sea trial of ...

THE troubled 13,900-TEU MADRID BRIDGE , which suffered a collapsed container stack mid-Atlantic, has at last found a berth at the little used Hugh K Leatherman terminal in Port of Charleston, reports London's Loadstar. The spanking new Leatherman ...

Billie Farrell is the new captain of the U.S.S. “Constitution,” a 1797 frigate that now serves as a floating museum. Farrell relieved John Benda, who’d served as the ship’s captain since February 2020. For the first time in its 224-year history, ...

COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers took delivery of its 80,000dwt semi-submersible vessel “Xin Yao Hua” on 19 January 2022, bringing its fleet of semi-submersible vessels to nine. According to COSCO’s statement on Monday, this makes its fleet the ...

NYK and the Knutsen Group of Norway have established a joint venture company for the commercial development of a liquefied CO2 marine transportation and storage business worldwide using the Knutsen developed technology PCO2® which allows transport ...

A 75-year-old Frenchman attempting to row across the Atlantic “to laugh at old age” has been found dead in his cabin at sea, his support team said. Portuguese coast guards found Jean-Jacques Savin’s overturned boat off the archipelago of the Azores ...

Last week, a federal district court (Judge Darrin P. Gayles) in Miami issued an arrest warrant for the Crystal Symphony because the luxury cruise ship is millions of dollars in arrears in unpaid fuel bills. Judge Gayles signed the order of seizure ...

The wheels of justice, at least in the commercial courts, grind exceedingly slowly - most will have forgotten the casualty to the big containership CMA CGM LIBRA The CMA CGM LIBRA grounded when leaving the Chinese port of Xiamen in May 2011, after ...

JAPANESE owned but Singapore based Ocean Network Express (ONE) has confirmed that 60 containers were lost overboard with a further 80 damaged in the stack collapse aboard the 13,900-TEU MADRID BRIDGE mid-Atlantic en route to New York, reports ...

Maritime veterans do not appear to think much of Maersk’s new methanol vessel design, saying the forward-situated superstructure will cause a host of problems. Ex-ship’s captain Arjun Vikram-Singh, currently CEO of Quantum BSO, said: “Thank God I’m ...

The design of an ammonia-fueled Panamax bulk carrier developed by the Japanese organisation Planning and Design Center for Greener Ships (GSC) has received an Approval in Principle (AiP) from the classification society ClassNK. Before issuing the ...

Samskip added 150 brand new 45ft high cube reefer containers to its fleet, further enhancing its capability to ship high value, temperature-controlled and perishable goods across the European markets and the rest of the world. Equipped with the most ...

For the past several weeks, I have received emails from several people who reconsidered going on this Atlantis Events party on the Oasis of the Seas. One person commented: “They won’t let us postpone! We’re Canadian and under an advisory not to ...