Shipping companies are transforming rust buckets into gold mines in a modern-day alchemy that could fuel already rampant inflation for years to come.
 The disruption to world trade caused by pandemic lockdowns and a shortage of new cargo vessels has ...

Japanese shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and compatriot shipbuilders Tsuneishi Shipbuilding and Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding have launched a joint project aimed at developing and building an ocean-going liquefied gas carrier that will ...

BAR Technologies’ WindWings by Yara Marine Technologies (WindWings) to debut in early 2023 on charter with development partner, Cargill. Cargill, Mitsubishi Corporation, BAR Technologies (BAR Tech) and Yara Marine Technologies (Yara Marine) are ...

Two Royal Navy officers who had an affair while serving on Britain's nuclear submarines have been sacked for endangering national security with emails sent to each other as part of their 'clandestine sexual relationship'. Lieutenant Sophie Brook, ...

Electric ferry Ellen sailed 50 nautical miles – 92 kilometers – on a single battery charge during the International Energy Agency’s 7th Annual Conference on Energy Efficiency. The distance marks a new world record. The islands of Ærø and Als in ...

A Danish court on Thursday sentenced a British officer to 18 months in jail after he pleaded guilty to charges of negligent manslaughter for his role as helmsman leading to a collision that killed two Danish seaman. During the case in Copenhagen ...

Seafarer wage rates are set to accelerate in the face of worsening officer supply / demand imbalance. Sustained fleet growth will lead to the highest shortfall of officers to crew the world’s merchant fleet in over a decade by 2027, with important ...

According to news reports, the unfinished hull of Genting Cruise Lines’ second Global Class newbuild will be sold for scrap The 208,000-ton vessel was in early stages of construction at one of MV Werften’s facilities in Warnemunde, Germany, when ...

Wärtsilä Voyage, part of the Finnish technology group Wärtsilä, has decided to acquire PortLink Global, a Canada-based port solutions company. The move will speed Wärtsilä Voyage along its path towards creating an end-to-end connected maritime ...

Shipping giant has begun interviewing its 350 female maritime workers to get to the bottom of the issue ... and this iceberg runs deep
 Just a few days ago, Maersk was hailed as being one of the most attractive companies to work for by students ...

The FSO SAFER floating off the coast of Yemen on 26 April 2022
 Saudi Arabia has pledged $10 million to help finance an operation to prevent a possible oil spillage in the Red Sea from the abandoned FSO Safer off the coast of Yemen.
 The ...

Lithium-ion batteries have been the cause of, and charged with, several notable marine fires in recent years. And now there’s talk of insurance companies refusing to cover boats. This is the time for boat owners to check their polices and speak to ...

Removing sea mines near Ukraine’s key ports could take months, and hundreds of seafarers are still stranded in the region following Russia’s invasion of the country, according to the United Nations agency responsible for shipping safety. “Even if ...

Classification society Lloyd’s Register has granted approval in principle (AIP) for a Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute (SDARI) designed 210,000 dwt Newcastlemax bulk carrier equipped with Anemoi rotor sails. The ship design is ...

An overladen ship crammed with thousands of sheep capsized Sunday off Sudan’s Red Sea coast drowning the animals on board but with all crew surviving, port officials said. The livestock vessel was heading from Sudan's port of Suakin to Saudi Arabia ...

MSC has become the first carrier to provide in-house Liquid Cargo Solutions, directly supplying and fitting flexibags for customers worldwide. MSC provides a single point of contact, offering end-to-end services for customers in the liquid cargo ...

Norwegian digital solutions provider Kongsberg Digital and Swiss MSC, the world’s largest container shipping company, have signed a contract for digitalising MSC’s entire fleet consisting of approximately 500 vessels with Vessel Insight. “As the ...

• Innovative new tank system enables flexible response to diversifying and expanding LCO2 carrier market needs • Advanced design technologies cultivated through experience in developing spherical tanks for LNG carriers Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co., ...

There are around 2,000 cargo ships with an estimated 25,000 seafarers sailing on the Baltic Sea at any given time. The greywater and sewage generated on these vessels can be legally discharged into the Baltic Sea. How could this wastewater be used ...

The drive towards shipping’s decarbonization is well underway. At present there’s a growing number of potential alternative fuels and technologies to achieve the desired goals, each with each benefits and drawbacks, from costs to production ...

• On June 2, SK Shipping's super-large LNG carrier arrived at a South Korean port after a month-long transoceanic voyage. • The vessel equipped with HD Hyundai's Avikus-developed HiNAS 2.0, Level 2 autonomous navigation solution, was successfully ...

It was the afternoon of June 27, 2017, when nearly every computer serving the Danish shipping giant Maersk went dark. A piece of malware called NotPetya, created by Russians to attack the Ukraine, had accidently snuck into the company’s system when ...

THERE are now just under 900 ships totalling 6.8 million TEU due to be built at yards around the world, reports Singapore's Splash 247. According to Alphaliner the pipeline of container newbuildings is bigger than the combined existing fleets of ...

The cruise industry could be in rocky waters again: Difficulties with hiring crew members has hindered several cruise lines' operations, leaving some would-be cruise-goers with fewer onboard dining options or canceled trips.
Like on-land hospitality ...

ABS has granted Approval in Principle (AIP) to the Shanghai Merchant Ship Design and Research Institute (SDARI) for a revolutionary vessel design with a novel aft layout, which eliminates pollution and promotes efficient vessel operations. The ...

DNV has awarded the Norwegian technology provider HAV Group ASA preliminary approval for its hydrogen-based energy system. The system uses liquefied hydrogen storage and fuel cells and was created as part of the FreeCO2ast project, which is ...

Ministers have cancelled a contract with P&O Ferries after it sacked nearly 800 seafarers without notice in March. The Home Office announced that the agreement with the Border Force agency would come to an end with “immediate effect”. It follows ...

CHAIRMAN of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) Group, Gianluigi Aponte, left a job in finance to focus on shipping and now, decades later, he has one of the world's biggest maritime fortunes, reports Bloomberg. While the Covid-19 pandemic hurt ...

P&I condition surveys could be misconstrued in some instances as baggage which is part of being a member of an International Group club. Their value may be overlooked and condensed down to an outcome of a list of so-called ‘defects’ which will ...

Cachalot is the newsletter of the Southampton Master Mariners Club Cachalot No ...

When Angelyn Burk, a recently retired accountant, decided to crunch some numbers one evening last year, she made a stunning discovery: It would be cheaper for her and her husband to spend their retirement perpetually aboard cruise ships than to ...

The Crystal Symphony and Crystal Serenity – Crystal Cruises’ two ocean liners that were seized by Bahamian authorities in February after parent company Genting Hong Kong failed to pay more than $4 million in fuel bills – are being auctioned ...

A photo has emerged online showing oil film on the water shortly after the “ADMIRAL KUZNETSOV” was moved into the dock at shipyard No. 35 in Murmansk.
Origin of the oil is unreported, but there are no other vessels in the dock. The aircraft carrier ...

In a world first, China delivered a 100,000-tonne smart aquaculture vessel last week Friday in Qingdao City, east China's Shandong Province.
 The ship, named GUOXIN-1, is the realization of an innovative mobile fish farming model regarded as a ...

Three-wing rigs for ships can successfully tackle the problem of Energy Efficiency eXisting ship Index (EEXI) and Engine Power Limitation (EPL), extending the life of current and newbuild vessels, research conducted by London-based auxiliary power ...

Yesterday, CNBC reporter Seema Moody tweeted that Carnival Corporation (“Carnival”) was “in discussions to sell (its) Seabourn brand to the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.” This development seems to have surprised some people, but is understandable in ...

The Port of Antwerp-Bruges and CMB are preparing to welcome the world's first hydrogen-powered tugboat, the HYDROTUG ! This one-of-a-kind vessel is a midsize harbor tug powered by twin 2,600 horsepower dual fuel medium speed engines, which run on a ...

Two weeks ago, on May 3rd, the largest cruise ship in the world, Royal Caribbean’s Wonder of the Seas, arrived in Palma de Mallorca billowing a thick cloud of black smoke from its stacks.  The reality of this huge cruise ship belching out a huge ...

New research shows these gentle giants are often on a collision course with large ocean vessels Whale sharks, the largest fish on Earth, have been mysteriously vanishing from the ocean without a trace over the last 75 years—and marine scientists ...

French low-carbon shipping company Neoline has selected the Solid Sail system from compatriot shipyard Chantiers de l’Atlantique as the main propulsion for its first sailing cargo ship. By choosing the Solid Sail solution, Neoline is one step ...

The Isle of Man Ship Registry (IOMSR) is expanding its Greek fleet with an agreement to flag four bulk carriers with Enterprises Shipping & Trading (EST). EST is IOMSR’s oldest and largest Greek client, and the latest additions bring the total ...

New York-based hydrogen company H2 Industries and naval architecture firm TECHNOLOG Services have developed 3D designs for a concept ship that collects plastic waste and converts it into clean hydrogen. Plastic debris currently makes up 80 per cent ...

Costa Rica-based clean shipping company Sailcargo has purchased sailing cargo vessel Vega Gamleby in an effort to accelerate clean shipping. The purchase comes amind a huge growth in the clean shipping industry at the moment, with consumers ...

The world's first ship with an intelligent unmanned system was launched in Guangzhou, South China’s Guangdong Province on Wednesday.  The ship, which was developed by the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory in Zhuhai, ...

Completed preliminary assessment-  summary 4/22: Thorco AngelaA stevedore suffered sickness and disorientation after handling cans containing fumigant while discharging cargo from the general cargo vessel Thorco Angela. In July 2021, 8000t of ...

Delays in the delivery of two new Calmac passenger ferries have caused a major political scandal Ferries are a major issue in the west of Scotland. The 45,000 or so inhabitants of the Hebrides depend on ferry links to deliver essential supplies; to ...

The Pride of Kent was held for six weeks by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency
Inspectors from the agency found it had 47 failures, a record number of faults These included dirty working conditions and problems with fire safety systems. It also ...

Ocean energy pioneer Sustainable Marine today announced it has successfully harnessed the enormous tidal currents in Canada’s Bay of Fundy, delivering the first floating in-stream tidal power to Nova Scotia’s grid. Sustainable Marine CEO Jason ...

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 ...