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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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. ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is the Newsletter of the Council of American Master Mariners Inc. Sidelights Winter ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

  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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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. ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

• 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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...