Boxship World Archives - Baird Maritime

March 26, 2020

Swire Shipping’s first 2,400TEU vessel enters service

Written by Baird Maritime on March 26, 2020. Posted in Boxship World.

The Swire Shipping containership Changsha has formally entered service with its new owners. Swire’s first 2,400TEU vessel will be deployed on the company’s ..

March 23, 2020

MAIB report enumerates causes of 2018 vessel collision off Gibraltar

Written by Baird Maritime on March 23, 2020. Posted in Boxship World, Gas Tanker World.

The UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has released its investigation report into a collision between a containership and a gas carrier in waters off ..

March 15, 2020

OOCL orders five 23,000TEU vessels

Written by Baird Maritime on March 15, 2020. Posted in Boxship World.

Hong Kong-based OOCL has entered into newbuilding contracts for five containerships with two joint venture companies formed by Kawasaki Heavy Industries and China COSCO ..

March 24, 2020

Seven abducted from containership off Gabon

Written by Baird Maritime on March 24, 2020. Posted in Boxship World, Piracy.

A group of pirates boarded an MSC-operated containership in the Gulf of Guinea off Gabon and abducted seven of its crew on Sunday, March 22. Security consultancy firm ..

POLLUTION RECOVERY WEEK

March 17, 2020

REMINISCENCES | Oil in the wrong place

Written by Michael Grey on March 17, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Boxship World, Commercial Mariner - Ships & Ports, Dry Cargo World, Fuels, Lubricants & Bunkering, Pollution/Rubbish Cleanup, Port World, Tanker World, Work Boat World Features.

Wonderful stuff, oil, just as long as it stays in the right place. Half a century or so ago we tended to think like that, before the age of the superspill and well before ..

TUG & SALVAGE WEEK

March 6, 2020

REMINISCENCES | Rope’s end – Ship lines over time

Written by Michael Grey on March 6, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Boxship World, Commercial Mariner - Ships & Ports, Commercial Mariner - Tugs & Towage, Harbour Tugs and Operation, Port Equipment, Port World, Ship World Features, Ship World Vessel Reviews, Work Boat World Features.

I was reading a recent account of a lively time in a major European port, in one of the winter storms that are being blamed on climate change, but may also have something ..

March 24, 2020

COLUMN | Seafarers – Last in the queue [Grey Power]

Written by Michael Grey on March 24, 2020. Posted in Ausmarine - Shipping and Offshore, Boxship World, Commercial Mariner - Ships & Ports, Dry Cargo World, Port World, Ship World Features, Ship World Vessel Reviews, Tanker World, Work Boat World, Work Boat World Features.

We are living in unprecedented times, in a situation where fear and uncertainty oscillate, even in the minds of practical people with heaps of common sense. And if is bad ..

March 17, 2020

FEATURE | US-China “Phase One” agreement fails to boost January volumes

Written by BIMCO on March 17, 2020. Posted in Boxship World, Commercial Mariner - Ships & Ports, Dry Cargo World, Port World, Ship World Features, Ship World Vessel Reviews, Tanker World.

Even before the effects of the coronavirus, the “Phase One” agreement between China and the US failed to boost volumes of the implicated goods in January. In ..

March 5, 2020

Singapore Convention on Mediation ratified by two more states

Written by Baird Maritime on March 5, 2020. Posted in Boxship World, Dry Cargo World, Tanker World.

The United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation now draws closer to entry into force, which shall take place six months ..