The recent pictures of the gigantic Evergreen containership sitting forlornly across the Suez Canal, bow and stern hard aground on the sand, with a diminutive digger scraping away around the bulbous bow, sparked a few memories. For a start, the sheer size of the canal itself, able to offer a passage to ships of 400 metres ..
I was delighted recently to be informed I was considered an essential service provider as part of Hong Kong’s salvage response team and could get a priority booking for a coronavirus jab. In the same week I also qualified as an elderly person. The only difference was that wrinklies could choose which type of jab they ..
Stena Group companies have been much in the news recently. On the ferry side, Stena Line has been boasting about the number of women they employ, whilst Stena Bulk has been touting an innovative new concept for the bulk trades. Stena Line said it will attract, recruit, and keep the best talents “by actively recruiting ..
In Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE, public investment by petro-states is increasingly focused on squeezing out private sector businesses in oilfield services, especially international ones. This is leading to state-owned companies competing with one another in the region. Drilling rigs, supply vessels, and even forklifts ..
Fatigue, I was reading recently, has become a major problem in our meanly manned ships of today. The obvious solution would be to increase the available manpower to a level that might make it less likely that people would fall over from exhaustion, but that fails to commend itself to the ruling bean-counters. One cheaper ..
What is going on in the North Pacific, as scarcely a week goes by without stacks of containers hurling themselves into the sea as ships roll extravagantly in the heavy weather they seem to be encountering? Is the weather any worse than might be expected during the winter season in this notoriously fickle route between Asia ..
Hydrofoils have always seemed to have so much potential to enhance vessel performance but, except in very limited and specialised areas, they have never made a big ..
Despite the introduction ten years ago of regulations prohibiting the use of asbestos materials onboard ship, a significant number of existing and newbuild vessels .. MSC Cruises and Total have entered into an agreement for the supply of LNG to MSC Cruises’ upcoming LNG-powered cruise ships. The agreement calls for Total to .. Singapore shipowner Grindrod Shipping Holdings has entered into two separate transactions regarding the sale of three vessels in its fleet. The 2013-built MR tankers ..
Study reveals over 65 per cent of ships still operating with asbestos
MSC Cruises, Total ink LNG bunkering agreement
Singapore’s Grindrod Shipping sells three tankers
Despite the introduction ten years ago of regulations prohibiting the use of asbestos materials onboard ship, a significant number of existing and newbuild vessels .. MSC Cruises and Total have entered into an agreement for the supply of LNG to MSC Cruises’ upcoming LNG-powered cruise ships. The agreement calls for Total to .. Singapore shipowner Grindrod Shipping Holdings has entered into two separate transactions regarding the sale of three vessels in its fleet. The 2013-built MR tankers ..
Study reveals over 65 per cent of ships still operating with asbestos
MSC Cruises, Total ink LNG bunkering agreement
Singapore’s Grindrod Shipping sells three tankers
Despite the introduction ten years ago of regulations prohibiting the use of asbestos materials onboard ship, a significant number of existing and newbuild vessels ..
The board of the Georgia Ports Authority has approved capital improvement projects that will increase the Port of Savannah’s container capacity by 20 per cent. The ..
Following a salvage operation involving both local and international organisations, the containership Ever Given, which ran aground and ended up blocking traffic in both ..
DFDS will introduce a new unaccompanied freight service between Sheerness in North Kent and the French port of Calais. The service will start on June 1 and will offer one ..
The Philippine Coast Guard has deployed vessels and personnel in response to a collision incident between two foreign-flagged commercial ships in the waters off Cavite ..
Seanergy Maritime Holdings Corporation has entered into a definitive agreement with an unaffiliated third party to purchase a modern Capesize vessel for a gross purchase ..
Indian ports and logistics company Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) has taken over full ownership of Krishnapatnam Port after acquiring the outstanding 25 ..
The Port of Rotterdam has sold its sole remaining icebreaker to a marine contractor in Friesland, where it will join a sister vessel that had also been acquired by the ..
Med Marine has cut the first steel for a new ASD tug slated for the Port of Karadeniz Ereğli on Turkey’s Black Sea coast. The Robert Allan Ltd-designed tug will ..
The recent pictures of the gigantic Evergreen containership sitting forlornly across the Suez Canal, bow and stern hard aground on the sand, with a diminutive digger ..
Russian shipowner SCF Group recently took delivery of the third ship in a series of new Atlanticmax LNG carriers built by South Korean shipyard Hyundai Samho Heavy ..
Sanmar Shipyards has delivered the first of a three-vessel order of a new variant of a Robert Allan Ltd ASD tug design. The arrival of Svitzer Sohar to the Port of Sohar, ..
The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) recently commissioned a new diesel-electric submarine into service. JS Toryu (“Fighting Dragon”) is the final ..
Roger Revelle, a research vessel of Scripps Institution of Oceanography of UC San Diego, has completed undergoing an 18-month mid-life upgrade program expected to extend ..
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