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  • Russia to begin year-round voyages from the Arctic to Asia in 2024

    Russia to begin year-round voyages from the Arctic to Asia in 2024

          Russia will begin year-round voyages from the Arctic to Asia along the eastern section of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) from 2024, an opening of a tradelane with huge implications for the global seaborne map. “Together with Novatek, we plan ...
  • Future Proof Shipping launches 1st hydrogen-powered inland containership

    Future Proof Shipping launches 1st hydrogen-powered inland containership

    Dutch shipping company Future Proof Shipping (FPS) officially launched the first hydrogen-powered zero-emissions inland container ship, H2 Barge 1, in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The official launch of H2 Barge 1 took place in Rotterdam on 25 ...
  • KCC inks deal for three wind-assisted CABU III ships, ready for conversion to zero-emission fuels

    KCC inks deal for three wind-assisted CABU III ships, ready for conversion to zero-emission fuels

    Oslo-listed shipowner Klaveness Combination Carriers (KCC) has entered into a deal with Chinese shipbuilder Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding Co for the construction of three third generation (CABU III) vessels.The company said that the CABU III ...
  • BIMCO: 15,000 vessels set to be recycled by 2032

    BIMCO: 15,000 vessels set to be recycled by 2032

    Over the next ten years, from 2023 to 2032, more than 15,000 ships with deadweight capacity of more than 600 million tonnes are expected to be recycled, more than twice the amount recycled in the previous ten years, BIMCO estimates. As recycling ...
  • WSC reports the lowest container losses on record

    WSC reports the lowest container losses on record

    The number of containers lost overboard in 2022 is 661, the World Shipping Council (WSC) said in its annual report on containers lost at sea, revealing positive developments in container safety within the international liner shipping industry.This ...
  • Century-old training bark keels over during maintenance in Cape Town

    Century-old training bark keels over during maintenance in Cape Town

    A historic Dutch vessel capsized during maintenance in Cape Town on Saturday. The 112-year-old bark (three-masted ship), the Europa, was on its side when TimesLIVE visited the port. In a statement, the company that owns the vessel said the accident ...
  • MSC charts course for ammonia-powered  containership with industry majors

    MSC charts course for ammonia-powered containership with industry majors

    The world’s largest container shipping company Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (Mou) with Lloyd’s Register (LR), Shanghai Merchant Ship Design & Research Institute (SDARI) and MAN Energy Solutions ...
  • US, UK, others seek to target illicit oil shipping  transfers at sea

    US, UK, others seek to target illicit oil shipping transfers at sea

    The U.S., UK, Denmark and other countries have called for more action, including increased surveillance, over the booming practice of unregulated oil transfers at sea, as fears grow over potential pollution, according to a paper submitted to the ...
  • New UK cable layer to run on methanol once delivered in 2025

    New UK cable layer to run on methanol once delivered in 2025

    UK-based HVDC cable company XLCC has completed model testing on its new cable laying vessel (CLV) that was announced last year and which will be deployed in the renewable energy sector.The vessel will feature battery energy storage systems and shore ...
  • Norwegian Naval Officer Found Guilty of Negligence in Warship’s Collision with Oil Tanker

    Norwegian Naval Officer Found Guilty of Negligence in Warship’s Collision with Oil Tanker

    Norwegian naval officer was found guilty on Monday and sentenced to a two-month suspended jail sentence for negligence leading up to the 2018 collision between a warship he navigated and an oil tanker in which the military vessel sank. Building a ...
  • Fire Hazard: Norwegian Shipping Company First to Ban Electric Cars on Ferries 

    Fire Hazard: Norwegian Shipping Company First to Ban Electric Cars on Ferries

    The Norwegian shipping company, Havila Kystruten, has banned electric, hybrid, and hydrogen cars from its ferries. After a risk analysis, it was concluded that the risk to the safety of the shipping fleet was too significant. If a vehicle catches ...
  • Construction starts on COSCO’s 2nd 700 TEU electric containership

    Construction starts on COSCO’s 2nd 700 TEU electric containership

    Chinese shipbuilder COSCO Shipping Heavy Industry (Yangzhou) has started the construction of the second 700 TEU electric containership for compatriot COSCO Shipping. The construction ceremony took place on 8 May in the presence of the shipowner, ...
  • €26m navy ships from New Zealand arrive in Cork Harbour

    €26m navy ships from New Zealand arrive in Cork Harbour

    Following a mammoth voyage from New Zealand heavy lift ship Happy Dynamic arrives at Cork Harbour with two new inshore patrol boats for the Naval Service. Picture: David Creedon
A €26m pair of navy ships bought from New Zealand have finally arrived ...
  • Van Oord breaks its own Subsea Rock Installation world record

    Van Oord breaks its own Subsea Rock Installation world record

    Van Oord’s flexible fallpipe vessel Stornes has set a new world record. The vessel carried out subsea rock installation works in a record water depth of 1.364 meters. A distance comparable to almost five times the length of the Eiffel tower! The ...
  • UK trio to develop electric hydro-foiling high-speed ferry

    UK trio to develop electric hydro-foiling high-speed ferry

    Solent University, Chartwell Marine and Newcastle Marine Services have joined forces to develop a new electric hydro-foiling high-speed ferry.Following the development of an original concept by Solent University, the group is aiming to develop an ...
  • Average sailing speed could drop by 10 pct by 2025, BIMCO says

    Average sailing speed could drop by 10 pct by 2025, BIMCO says

    Following a 4 percent increase in average sailing speed during the COVID-19 pandemic triggered by strong demand and widespread port congestion, the situation today is very different in the liner sector. Namely, during the first quarter of 2023 the ...
  • Höegh Autoliners taps North Ammonia to power its dual-fuel car carriers

    Höegh Autoliners taps North Ammonia to power its dual-fuel car carriers

    Partnering with North Ammonia marks another sustainability milestone for Höegh Autoliners and is an important step on the path to zero. The green ammonia is meant for ammonia-ready dual-fuel Aurora-class vessels. Securing the supply and delivery of ...
  • Eagle Bulk confirms 3 seafarers are missing from its bulker in Gabon

    Eagle Bulk confirms 3 seafarers are missing from its bulker in Gabon

    Three seafarers have been reported missing from Grebe Bulker, a bulker vessel managed by Eagle Bulk Ship Management Singapore.The vessel is believed to have been boarded by pirates whilst in the inner anchorage of the Port of Owendo, Gabon, on May ...
  • EU persists with dark fleet sanctions despite enforcement difficulties

    EU persists with dark fleet sanctions despite enforcement difficulties

    Commission president promises latest sanctions will crack down on circumvention, but proposals still lack guidance on how implementation would be achieved
European Commission plans to ban ships engaging in deceptive practices including illicit ...
  • Deck blasted into air in aframax explosion

    Deck blasted into air in aframax explosion

    Three crew are presumed dead from Monday’s explosion in Malaysian waters on the 1997-built PABLO, an aframax tanker, with a history of transporting Iranian crude. Dramatic images and videos of the incident have emerged – with almost the entire deck ...
  • MSC Seaside Flunks USPH Health Inspection With Score of 67

    MSC Seaside Flunks USPH Health Inspection With Score of 67

    The MSC Seaside failed a recent health inspection conducted by inspectors at Port Canaveral with a score of just 67. Such a low score is virtually unheard of. There have been only three lower USPH inspection scores in the last twenty years, all ...
  • Cargo ship strikes turbine at Orsted’s Gode Wind 1 offshore wind farm, suffers massive damage

    Cargo ship strikes turbine at Orsted’s Gode Wind 1 offshore wind farm, suffers massive damage

    A cargo ship arrived in Emden, Germany with a massive hole in its hull after reportedly striking a wind farm. According to the German water police, the damaged vessel arrived from Szczecin, Poland to Emden on April 25, 2023. The Antigua-flagged ...
  • Cruise Executives Get Richer While the Cruise Industry Continues to Struggle

    Cruise Executives Get Richer While the Cruise Industry Continues to Struggle

    There were two news stories this past week which prove that the maxim “rich cruise tycoons get richer” remains true while the debt-strapped cruise industry continues to struggle. Business Insider reported that Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd. CEO Jason ...
  • Official documents on £1.3bn navy submarine found in Wetherspoons pub – report

    Official documents on £1.3bn navy submarine found in Wetherspoons pub – report

    Official documents about a £1.3 billion Royal Navy “hunter killer” submarine were reportedly found in the toilets of a Wetherspoons pub. The Sun reported that files carrying details about the HMS ANSON were left in The Furness Railway in Cumbria. ...
  • Piracy in Asian waters likely to rise due to global economic uncertainty: Experts

    Piracy in Asian waters likely to rise due to global economic uncertainty: Experts

    There were 18 piracy attacks between January and March in the Singapore Strait, according to a report by Recaap ISC. - ST
 Economic uncertainty in many parts of the world is likely to fuel a rise in piracy attacks in Asian waters, said ...
  • NYK’s new coal carrier with autonomous navigation system delivered

    NYK’s new coal carrier with autonomous navigation system delivered

    The vessel was delivered at the Saiki Shipyard of Honda Heavy Industries Co. on 28 April. The coal carrier is the sister ship of the domestic coastal coal carrier Ushio, which was delivered in July 2022. As part of the 2021 Support Project for R&D ...
  • The US Navy wants to sell off its troubled littoral combat ships to allies after just a few years in service

    The US Navy wants to sell off its troubled littoral combat ships to allies after just a few years in service

    The service wants to kiss a half-dozen 'little crappy ships' goodbye in the coming years. The Navy plans on selling off six of its much-maligned littoral combat ships to U.S. allies through the Defense Department’s Foreign Military Sales program ...
  • World’s largest VLGC named and delivered

    World’s largest VLGC named and delivered

    Jiangnan Shipbuilding, a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, has delivered the world’s largest Very Large Liquefied Gas Carrier (VLGC) to Singapore-based shipping and trading company Petredec. This marks a significant milestone for ...
  • World’s 1st methanol-powered boxship readies for September christening in Copenhagen

    World’s 1st methanol-powered boxship readies for September christening in Copenhagen

    Danish container shipping major Maersk is set to commemorate a significant milestone in the maritime industry as it prepares to host a series of events celebrating the first-ever voyage of a container vessel powered by green methanol. The ...
  • UK and Netherlands unveil multi-purpose interconnector plans

    UK and Netherlands unveil multi-purpose interconnector plans

    The Netherlands and the United Kingdom have unveiled their plan to build what they say would be a first-of-its-kind electricity link to connect offshore wind between the two countries via interconnectors. LionLink, a multi-purpose interconnector ...
  • Vietnam taking significant volume of US-bound box exports away from China

    Vietnam taking significant volume of US-bound box exports away from China

    Global trade patterns are being remoulded at a fast clip, with reshoring now clearly diminishing China’s dominance in the transpacific box trades.Covid, a more strident China, tensions along the Taiwan Strait, and the war in Ukraine have all played ...
  • SHI, KHNP and Seaborg to develop floating nuclear plants

    SHI, KHNP and Seaborg to develop floating nuclear plants

    South Korean shipbuilding major Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has teamed up with a Denmark-based startup focused on nuclear reactor technology Seaborg Technologies and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP), an owner and operator of nuclear power ...
  • Multiple Russian Submarines Moving in 'Strange  Routes,' U.K. Says

    Multiple Russian Submarines Moving in 'Strange Routes,' U.K. Says

    Russian submarines have been traveling on "strange routes" that deviate from those deemed typical by Western defense officials, according to British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace. 
Wallace said the U.K. had been tracking Russian submarines "in the ...
  • Major carriers still on the hunt for tonnage to boost  market share


    Major carriers still on the hunt for tonnage to boost market share


    Led by MSC and CMA CGM, ocean carriers are again scouring the charter and sales and purchase markets for tonnage to boost capacity and increase their market share. With demand prospects improving, especially for the second half of the year, and ...
  • Ukraine war: The Russian ships accused of North Sea sabotage

    Ukraine war: The Russian ships accused of North Sea sabotage

    Russia has a programme to sabotage wind farms and communication cables in the North Sea, according to new allegations. The details come from a joint investigation by public broadcasters in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. It says Russia has a ...
  • SIDELIGHTS -  Winter 2022

    SIDELIGHTS - Winter 2022

    Sidelights is the Newsletter of the Council of American Master Mariners Inc. Sidelights Winter ...
  • Largest ship ever used for artificial reef

    Largest ship ever used for artificial reef

    USS ORISKANY (CV-34) The last Essex-class carrier ever completed. She was sunk 25 miles south of Pensacola, Florida, becoming the largest ship ever used to create an artificial reef. She's now earned the nickname "The Great Carrier ...
  • World's largest wooden superyacht listed for sale

    World's largest wooden superyacht listed for sale

    The world's largest wooden superyacht has joined the brokerage market and is newly listed for sale with Bush & Noble. Built in teak with a GRP superstructure, the unnamed 50-metre yacht entered construction in 2020 with design and engineering from ...
  • Allege incompetence at your peril

    Allege incompetence at your peril

    In the charterparty dispute London Arbitration 2/23, (2023) 1129 LMLN 2, the arbitral tribunal rejected the owner’s claim for damages for breach of the safe port warranty in a time charterparty, after a laden bulk carrier grounded at the entrance to ...
  • Turkey’s Navy receives its largest-ever ship, the TCG Anadolu

    Turkey’s Navy receives its largest-ever ship, the TCG Anadolu

    Turkey commissioned a new ship, the TCG ANADOLU, on April 10, 2023. 
The Turkish Navy received its largest vessel on April 10 during a ceremony attended by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Defence Minister Hulusi Akar and top military brass. The ...
  • Madame Gu Superyacht: The Striking Blue Masterpiece “Abandoned” by Its Billionaire Owner

    Madame Gu Superyacht: The Striking Blue Masterpiece “Abandoned” by Its Billionaire Owner

    There is no such thing as bad publicity, you often hear, especially in showbiz: whatever attention you get, whether from the media or the general public, is attention that you can later monetize. The superyacht industry is where you draw the line ...
  • The EVER GIVEN Was there a concluded contract? The Admiralty Court says no.

    The EVER GIVEN Was there a concluded contract? The Admiralty Court says no.

    The grounding of the 20,400 teu “EVER GIVEN” in the Suez Canal is well-known, but much less is understood about what was going on behind the scenes as the parties negotiated for her refloating. It has proven controversial. A recent Admiralty Court ...
  • Just how much did MSC’s container business make  last year?

    Just how much did MSC’s container business make last year?

    It’s one of shipping’s most closely held secrets, up there with Greeks and the dark fleet, the true meaning of EEDI, defining an eco-ship, the hourly wage of a Burmese deckhand, and the full extent of the web of shipping interests of the Ofer ...
  • UK Charters Bibby Accommodation Barge to House Asylum Seekers

    UK Charters Bibby Accommodation Barge to House Asylum Seekers

    Faced with rising costs and what UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called an unsustainable situation, the UK’s Home Office confirmed today that it is chartering an accommodation vessel to provide housing for migrants caught attempting to enter the ...
  • Euronav Tanker Departs for Yemen to Replace Decaying FSO Safer

    Euronav Tanker Departs for Yemen to Replace Decaying FSO Safer

    Euronav’s VLCC tanker the NAUTICA has departed for Yemen in the first step toward transferring the oil stored aboard the decaying FSO Safer to a new storage arrangement. UN officials are calling the tanker's departure a key step while however ...
  • MSC buys six secondhand vessels in recent days - Seatrade

    MSC buys six secondhand vessels in recent days - Seatrade

    In its weekly newsletter Alphaliner said that MSC was reported to have purchased six vessels in recent days, Seatrade reports. The latest acquisitions bring the total capacity acquired on the secondhand market by MSC in recent years to 1.2m TEU, a ...
  • Lifeboat cable breaks on new P&O 'superferry'

    Lifeboat cable breaks on new P&O 'superferry'

    The new P&O PIONEER travelling to Dunkirk without one of it's lifeboats.  A new £100m 'superferry' owned by P&O is undergoing repairs in Northern France after an accident during a safety drill at sea. P&O PIONEER, which is not yet in service, has ...
  • Stolt Tankers to apply graphene-based propeller coatings to 25 ships

    Stolt Tankers to apply graphene-based propeller coatings to 25 ships

    Norwegian chemical tanker company Stolt Tankers, a subsidiary of Stolt-Nielsen, has signed a two-year agreement with Canada-based Graphite Innovations & Technology (GIT). Under the deal Stol Tankers will apply GIT’s XGIT-PROP graphene-based marine ...
  • Three crewmembers dead after Ukraine-bound cargo ship sinks off Turkish coast

    Three crewmembers dead after Ukraine-bound cargo ship sinks off Turkish coast

    A Guinea-Bissau flagged cargo ship sank off the Mediterranean coast of Turkey on Wednesday (Apr 05), with 14 crew members on board.  The ship, Joe 2, was en route from the Turkish port of Iskenderun to Ukraine and was carrying aluminum cargo, as ...
  • China’s first hydrogen fuel cell-powered boat hits the water

    China’s first hydrogen fuel cell-powered boat hits the water

    In a significant step towards sustainable and decarbonized shipping, China has launched its first-ever hydrogen fuel cell-powered boat. The vessel named ‘Three Gorges Hydrogen Boat No. 1’ was launched on March 17, in Guangdong, China. The vessel ...
  • A crucial date for deep-sea mining in the Pacific is just around the corner, but is the world ready?

    A crucial date for deep-sea mining in the Pacific is just around the corner, but is the world ready?

    As a crucial deadline looms for a new frontier of mining in the deep Pacific Ocean, Pacific Islanders are worried the controversial practice could go ahead before proper regulations are in place.KEY POINTS* There are many questions still unanswered ...
  • France gets its first offshore solar farm

    France gets its first offshore solar farm

    SolarinBlue, designer of floating solar solutions specially designed for the maritime environment, launched the first units of the Sun’Sète project in mid-March 2023. The demonstrator is installed in the commercial port, located 1.5 km from the ...
  • With great profit comes great responsibiliity’: Unions grill Maersk over labour violations at Copenhagen AGM

    With great profit comes great responsibiliity’: Unions grill Maersk over labour violations at Copenhagen AGM

    Trade unions representing employees of the world’s largest listed shipping company are in Copenhagen today to take their labour message direct to Maersk headquarters as the company records a record $29 billion profit. Unions from as far afield as ...
  • The long hangover of the ‘Ever Given’ global trade disruption

    The long hangover of the ‘Ever Given’ global trade disruption

      They call them “big boys” for a good reason. If you’ve never seen one up close, it’s hard to understand the dimensions of these ships, often compared to floating skyscrapers. The EVER GIVEN is 1,300 feet (400 meters) long and 193 feet (59 meters) ...
  • Crewless container ships appear on the horizon

    Crewless container ships appear on the horizon

    Cruising quietly through the Frier Fjord in southern Norway, the YARRA BIRKELAND looks like an ordinary small ship. However, by the end of the year, the number of crew on board will be reduced from five to two and then, if all goes well, in two ...
  • “Seawing” Automated Kite System to be Installed on CORONA CITRUS, a Coal Carrier for Electric Power Development

    “Seawing” Automated Kite System to be Installed on CORONA CITRUS, a Coal Carrier for Electric Power Development

    Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd. (K LINE) and Electric Power Development Co., Ltd. (J-POWER) have decided to install the “Seawing” * , an automated kite system using wind power, on CORONA CITRUS, an 88,000 DWT-type special coal carrier for ...
  • 74,000-ton container ship crashes into wharf at Port of Kaohsiung: Pilot found to be intoxicated

    74,000-ton container ship crashes into wharf at Port of Kaohsiung: Pilot found to be intoxicated

    HYUNDAI TOKYO approaches wharf at Port of Kaohsiung before collision 
A 74,651-ton container ship was seen approaching a wharf pier bow-first at an angle of 90 degrees before colliding with the steel-reinforced concrete structure at the Port of ...
  • High winds unlikely to have toppled ship in Edinburgh dock - expert

    High winds unlikely to have toppled ship in Edinburgh dock - expert

    An incident where a US Navy vessel toppled over at an Edinburgh dry dock is "unlikely" to have been caused by high winds, a marine expert has said Dr Iraklis Lazakis, from Strathclyde University's department of marine architecture, said it was "very ...
  • Wreckdock sets sights on recycling up to 52 ships annually in its new facility

    Wreckdock sets sights on recycling up to 52 ships annually in its new facility

    The company plans to build four drydocks from 350 meters to 500 meters long with eight quays equipped with heavy-duty cranes, magnets, and other machinery that would be used to dismantle end-of-life vessels within two weeks. The facility will also ...
  • BV to class hybrid ferries with battery and solar power

    BV to class hybrid ferries with battery and solar power

    Classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has revealed it will class two hybrid ferries, which will be equipped with battery and solar power technology for operation in Hong Kong. Designed by CoCo Yachts, a Dutch naval architect design and ...
  • Samskip orders two zero-emission hydrogen-powered feeders at Cochin

    Samskip orders two zero-emission hydrogen-powered feeders at Cochin

    Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), India’s top shipbuilder, has won a contract from Dutch logistics company Samskip for the design and construction of two zero-emission feeder container vessels. The project, which includes an option for two more ...
  • ITF targets four worst flags in bid to scrap unsafe  shipping from Mediterranean Sea

    ITF targets four worst flags in bid to scrap unsafe shipping from Mediterranean Sea

    Up to a thousand ships flagged to the Cook Islands, Palau, Sierra Leone, and Togo will be targeted for safety, maintenance and seafarer welfare inspections across the Mediterranean Sea in the coming eight weeks by an army of inspectors from the ...
  • S&P Global: Russia’s ghost fleet estimated at 434 vessels

    S&P Global: Russia’s ghost fleet estimated at 434 vessels

    Since the introduction of G7 oil price cap for Russia’s crude oil and refined products there have been speculations on Russia’s so-called shadow fleet being used to evade sanctions. Russia has repeatedly stated that it will not work with the price ...
  • ONE orders 10 methanol/ammonia-ready 13,700 TEU boxships

    ONE orders 10 methanol/ammonia-ready 13,700 TEU boxships

    Singapore-based shipping company Ocean Network Express (ONE) has placed an order for ten methanol/ammonia-ready containerships. The vessels will have a carrying capacity of 13,700 TEU. The units will be ready for methanol and ammonia and equipped ...
  • Why the US Navy wants to retire eight ships early

    Why the US Navy wants to retire eight ships early

    The U.S. Navy intends to decommission 11 ships in fiscal 2024, including eight ahead of their planned end of service life — fewer than the 24 it requested to decommission in its FY23 submission, but still likely to reignite debate on Capitol ...
  • Grieg Star: Retrofitting deep-sea ships to ammonia is feasible but challenging

    Grieg Star: Retrofitting deep-sea ships to ammonia is feasible but challenging

    A cross-company, cross-discipline group of industry experts conclude that deep-sea shipping can transform to ammonia as fuel. But there are several difficult hurdles to overcome. Through 2022, a group of industry experts, led by Grieg Star, has ...
  • IFSMA Newsletter No 62

    IFSMA Newsletter No 62

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  • Near-collision in Panama Canal shows 'an accident is waiting to happen'

    Near-collision in Panama Canal shows 'an accident is waiting to happen'

    OOCL Utah‘s near-collision on Sunday with a Panama Canal lock gate suggests a tragic and costly accident is waiting to happen, say experts. Video footage shows a fore-positioned ‘alpha’ tug almost crushed between the Hong Kong-flagged containership ...
  • MSC again takes the lead in a busy week for boxship sales

    MSC again takes the lead in a busy week for boxship sales

    SIGNS that the container sector is getting towards a market bottom can be seen in the sale and purchase secondhand market where vessels are changing hands in significant numbers. As has been the case since the middle of 2020, Mediterranean Shipping ...
  • Euronav to work with United Nations in rescue operation for stricken FSO Safer

    Euronav to work with United Nations in rescue operation for stricken FSO Safer

    Euronav NV (EURN or Euronav) (NYSE: EURN & Euronext: EURN) announced earlier today it has signed an agreement with the UN to sell a VLCC as part of a wider salvage operation for the FSO Safer located in Yemen. Euronav will provide a suitable vessel ...
  • Grafmarine is testing revolutionary solar energy cells with Carisbrooke’s vessel

    Grafmarine is testing revolutionary solar energy cells with Carisbrooke’s vessel

      Grafmarine are piloting its NanoDeck AI Solar tile management solution in partnership with Carisbrooke Shipping Ltd. “NanoDeck challenges the current reliance on fossil fuels by providing a clean and sustainable alternative renewable source of ...
  • World’s largest: Colossal MSC Tessa delivered to MSC

    World’s largest: Colossal MSC Tessa delivered to MSC

    Chinese shipbuilder Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding has delivered the giant 24, 116 TEU containership MSC Tessa to its owner Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). The massive vessel was independently designed by Hudong-Zhonghua and it belongs to the ...
  • US ‘spying’ port cranes allegation is groundless, misleading: ministry

    US ‘spying’ port cranes allegation is groundless, misleading: ministry

    Some US officials’ claims that China-made cranes operating at US ports possibly play a role as “spying tools”, as reported by some foreign media, are totally “groundless”, Chinese officials and experts said on Monday.
The allegations by US ...
  • MOL and VALE agree to install Two Norsepower Rotor SailsTM to an in-service Capesize Bulk Carrier

    MOL and VALE agree to install Two Norsepower Rotor SailsTM to an in-service Capesize Bulk Carrier

    Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and Vale International SA (VALE) have today announced a partnership to retrofit a 200,000-ton class bulk carrier, currently employed under a mid–term contract for transportation of iron ore for Vale, with two 35m x 5m ...
  • Number of Guests and Crew Infected During Gastrointestinal Outbreak on Ruby Princess Increases to Over 300: “Norovirus the Likely Cause”

    Number of Guests and Crew Infected During Gastrointestinal Outbreak on Ruby Princess Increases to Over 300: “Norovirus the Likely Cause”

    The number of people infected with gastrointestinal illness aboard the Ruby Princess increased to over 300 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Infection (CDC). We previously reported that the CDC initially indicated that at least ...
  • U.S. Department of Justice Files Suit to Arrest MOL's Cruise Ship

    U.S. Department of Justice Files Suit to Arrest MOL's Cruise Ship

    The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Japanese shipping giant MOL to recover damages from the allision of the company's sole cruise ship with the U.S. Navy fuel pier in Apra, Guam.  On December 30, 2018, the Japanese-flagged cruise ship Nippon ...
  • Norwegian Firms Establishes Freight Route for Uncrewed Cargo Vessels

    Norwegian Firms Establishes Freight Route for Uncrewed Cargo Vessels

    Norwegian firm Maritime Robotics said it has been given the green light to establish a freight route for its uncrewed vessels in the Trondheimsfjord in Norway. With approval from the Norwegian Coastal Administration and the Norwegian Maritime ...
  • PowerCell to provide hydrogen solutions for two Norwegian state ferries

    PowerCell to provide hydrogen solutions for two Norwegian state ferries

    Swedish company PowerCell has inked a contract to provide hydrogen solutions for two state ferries that operate on Norway’s longest ferry connection. The agreement was signed between PowerCell and SEAM. The Norwegian government has set as a ...
  • Amogy to bring 1st ammonia-powered ship to life

    Amogy to bring 1st ammonia-powered ship to life

    Brooklyn-based technology startup Amogy Inc. is retrofitting a tugboat to run on its ammonia-to-power system and is planning to present the vessel in late 2023. Namely, Amogy intends to sail the tugboat later in 2023 in upstate New York, pending ...
  • FBI investigating 'suspicious death' of woman on Carnival cruise ship

    FBI investigating 'suspicious death' of woman on Carnival cruise ship

    The FBI is investigating the "suspicious death" of a female passenger onboard the Carnival Sunshine The woman was found unresponsive during the ship's February 27 voyage to Nassau, Bahamas, the FBI field office in Columbia, South Carolina, ...
  • GSI delivers first battery-hybrid ferry to P&O Ferries

    GSI delivers first battery-hybrid ferry to P&O Ferries

    China’s Guangzhou Shipyard International (GSI) has delivered the first out of two new battery-hybrid ferries to British ferry operator P&O Cruises. The delivery ceremony took place on 28 February. After the delivery, the ship will be put into ...
  • Ice Damaged Chinese Bulker Sinks After Failed Salvage Effort

    Ice Damaged Chinese Bulker Sinks After Failed Salvage Effort

    Salvage teams were unable to save a Chinese bulker that was damaged in a collision with heavy ice flows near the Russian port of Vanino. The Maritime Rescue Service of Rosmorrechflot, the Russian emergency services ministry, confirmed that the YONG ...
  • Bloom Energy Fuel Cells Demonstrate Effectiveness in First Major Marine Deployment Aboard Cruise Ship Built by Chantiers de l’Atlantique

    Bloom Energy Fuel Cells Demonstrate Effectiveness in First Major Marine Deployment Aboard Cruise Ship Built by Chantiers de l’Atlantique

    In their first major marine deployment, Bloom Energy (NYSE:BE) fuel cells demonstrated a significant increase in electrical efficiency on a luxury cruise ship built by Chantiers de l’Atlantique (CdA). Bloom and CdA have also announced that they have ...
  • Life at Sea Cruises Debuts World’s First Three-Year World Cruise

    Life at Sea Cruises Debuts World’s First Three-Year World Cruise

    Life at Sea Cruises announced today they are accepting reservations for the world’s first - and only – three-year world cruise. The voyage will cover more than 130,000 miles, visiting 375 ports across 135 countries and seven continents. Set aboard ...
  • Jan De Nul And DEME Build The World’s First Artificial Energy Island For ELIA

    Jan De Nul And DEME Build The World’s First Artificial Energy Island For ELIA

    The Belgian consortium TM EDISON (Jan De Nul and DEME) has won the tender for the construction of the world’s first artificial energy island. The construction of the foundations of the Princess Elisabeth Island will begin in early 2024 and will last ...
  • Russia Targets Dutch North Sea Infrastructure, MIVD Says

    Russia Targets Dutch North Sea Infrastructure, MIVD Says

    Russia has in recent months tried to gain intelligence to sabotage critical infrastructure in the Dutch part of the North Sea, Dutch military intelligence agency MIVD said on Monday. The vessel was escorted out of the North Sea by Dutch marine and ...
  • BIMCO: Chinese Shipyards Achieve Market Share Record in 2022

    BIMCO: Chinese Shipyards Achieve Market Share Record in 2022

    After decades after China began its concerted efforts to build its competitiveness in the global shipping industry, its shipyards hit a record 47 percent market share in 2022 according to a new analysis from the shipping trade organization BIMCO. ...
  • Piracy trends and high risk areas

    Piracy trends and high risk areas

    Despite reports of global piracy declining for the second year in a row, the number of robbery incidents in the Singapore Strait reached a seven-year high in 2022 and vessels anchored in South American ports continue to be attacked by violent ...
  • ClassNK adds standards to ensure safe and efficient operation of containerships

    ClassNK adds standards to ensure safe and efficient operation of containerships

    ClassNK has released "Guidelines for Container Stowage and Securing Arrangements (Edition 3.0)" and "Guidelines for Parametric Roll Countermeasures" to achieve and safer and more efficient marine transportation of containers. Responding to rapid ...
  • China Reveals New Heavily Armed Extra-Large Uncrewed Submarine

    China Reveals New Heavily Armed Extra-Large Uncrewed Submarine

    New evidence points to China's XLUUV (extra-large uncrewed underwater vehicles) being armed with torpedoes. This is a significant leap in this space and, together with a large-scale development program, may be out-pacing the West. Extra large ...
  • Newsletter of the Southampton Master Mariners Club

    Newsletter of the Southampton Master Mariners Club

    Cachalot volume 102 Cachalot ...
  • Old Cruise Ships to Find New Life as Floating Residences for World Cruise

    Old Cruise Ships to Find New Life as Floating Residences for World Cruise

    A pair of former Holland America ships will be part of an ‘around the world’ trip on Victoria Cruise Line, Cruise Radio reports. The ships are now to be called VICTORIA MAJESTIC and the VICTORIA AMAZING, and they're being given new life to operate ...
  • P&O Maritime Logistics Introduces Zero-Emission Vessel With Cable Laying Capabilities To Build Wind Farms

    P&O Maritime Logistics Introduces Zero-Emission Vessel With Cable Laying Capabilities To Build Wind Farms

    • Concept design of Multi-Carrying Vessel conversion into Cable-Laying Vessel is now complete and company expects the vessel to be ready to start operations in Q3 2024. • The highly manoeuvrable vessel features a low fuel consumption propulsion ...
  • CMA CGM trials a windshield on board its boxship to cut emissions

    CMA CGM trials a windshield on board its boxship to cut emissions

    The device improves a vessel’s aerodynamics resulting in lower fuel consumption and thus contributing to a lower carbon footprint of the vessel, the shipowner said. The company revealed that the installation process on board the 16,000 TEU vessel ...
  • The US Navy's struggle to keep ships in fighting  shape is leading sailors to 'cannibalize' more parts  from other ships

    The US Navy's struggle to keep ships in fighting shape is leading sailors to 'cannibalize' more parts from other ships

    The US Navy is so short of spare parts that crews are increasingly taking a drastic step: Cannibalizing parts from some ships to keep other ships going.
 The result is more ships that are down for maintenance and unable to perform their missions, ...
  • American Whiskey Salvaged From 170-Year-Old Shipwreck Could Be Worth Millions

    American Whiskey Salvaged From 170-Year-Old Shipwreck Could Be Worth Millions

    Sunken scotch has captured the imagination—and pursestrings—of whisky enthusiasts for generations. It’s the term used to refer to liquid that’s unintentionally aged at the bottom of the sea after a shipwreck. Now American whiskey is poised for the ...
  • Rio de Janeiro’s Picturesque Bay Is a Toxic Ship Graveyard

    Rio de Janeiro’s Picturesque Bay Is a Toxic Ship Graveyard

    Framed by green mountains and a sweeping cityscape, Guanabara Bay offers one of Rio de Janeiro’s most breathtaking views. This triangle of water inland from the Atlantic Ocean, which separates Rio from the city of Niterói, has enchanted countless ...
  • CIMC Group: MSC’s recently ordered LNG-powered boxships will be ammonia-ready

    CIMC Group: MSC’s recently ordered LNG-powered boxships will be ammonia-ready

    Although liner heavyweight Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is trying to keep its ordering of new boxships on the down low, details have emerged of the company’s ten recently ordered LNG dual-fuel containerships. The order was confirmed by ...
  • Collision in Vietnam

    Collision in Vietnam

    Two container ships collided in Long Tau river, Ho Chi Minh, at around 0440 LT Feb 11. According to tracks and analysis involved ships are RESURGENCE and WAN HAI 288, with RESURGENCE moving upstream to Ho Chi Minh, WAN HAI 288 sailing downstream, ...
  • China's export volume of automobiles up 30 pct year on year in Jan

    China's export volume of automobiles up 30 pct year on year in Jan

    China's auto exports continued to maintain a good momentum as auto companies exported over 300,000 vehicles in January alone, an increase of over 30 percent year on year, of which new energy vehicles increased by over 48 percent year on year. Key ...

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