The last five years have been one of the longest and most challenging downturns the offshore industry has ever experienced. Since the oil price drop of […]
Selecting inappropriate oil-in-water monitoring technologies can jeopardise environmental compliance, market-leading maker of smart water quality monitoring equipment Rivertrace has warned. Their advice to ship owners confronted […]
Satcom Global has announced a crew calling initiative which is providing free telephone vouchers to each of its Satcom Global Aura VSAT customers, as part of […]
With the commissioning of coastal research vessel Sagar Anveshika earlier this year, the Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass) celebrated yet another collaborative success with the Indian […]
ABS has launched comprehensive guidance on sanitizing and decontaminating marine and offshore assets exposed to COVID-19. Response Measures to COVID-19 for the Marine and Offshore Industries […]
Significant reductions in CO2 emissions per container transported, a successful conversion of the vessel fleet to operate using low-sulfur fuel oil, and considerable improvements in quality […]
A Panama-flagged bulk carrier, the Top Grace, that was detained in South Africa last month after it was found to have thrown overboard two stowaways off […]
The IMO 2020 global sulphur regulation for marine fuel oil has now been in force for over three months. BIMCO, ICS, INTERCARGO and INTERTANKO are calling […]
The Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, commissioned two new multimillion-dollar, state-of-the-art Mobile Harbor Cranes (MHCs) at Apapa Port, Lagos, this week. […]
On Saturday, due to vicious storm winds, Baltic Sea ferry Viking Grace was grounded with 429 crew and passenger in the Aland Islands, between Sweden and […]
The Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Escape started its recruitment process on Saturday. After being docked at Mormugao Port Trust, the cruise decided to pick 2000 Goan […]
Incident Overview In a recent incident, three people have been kidnapped from a vessel. Pirates left the vessel at 05°09N – 003°29E (180/75NM off Lagos Nigeria) […]
Foreign crew-members are now allowed to sign-on and sign-off on ships at Indian ports. The government has decided to follow through its decision in July and […]
PIRIOU is one of the three winners of the Call for notification of interest of the offshore wind Innovation Challenge –managed by WPD and the Brittany […]
Ocean Infinity is excited to announce plans for the next phase of its Armada fleet of robotic vessels with a signed contract for eight 78-meter, optionally […]
The World Health Organization has developed two (free access) e-learning courses: “Promoting public health measures in response to COVID-19 on cargo ships and fishing vessels”. The […]
From 2019 through 2020, there is a sharp increase in the number of incidents of robbery and theft against ships while underway in the Singapore Strait […]
GreenSteam, a leading provider of vessel performance optimization solutions for the shipping industry, announces the launch of GreenSteam Capture, a new mobile app designed to automatically […]