These past two years the NGO Shipbreaking Platform has won support for sustainable ship recycling in the financial sector while raising the stakes for shipowners who […]
Stena Bulk is presenting a prototype of the next-generation product and chemical tanker, the IMOFlexMAX, which will be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more […]
DNV GL, the world’s leading classification society, has launched new guidance on recycling to help shipowners navigate a regulatory environment that is becoming increasingly complex. With […]
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) announced that the Japan Federation of Pilots’ Association (JFPA) (Note 1)” has presented its Best Quality Ship Award for fiscal year […]
For smaller vessels like handymax bulkers or product tankers, the cost of installing a scrubber for SOx compliance has sometimes outweighed the benefits. Now Alfa Laval […]
Things have turned worse for manning agencies in the Philippines when the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) issued an order mandating them to arrange and […]
As ship crew members have extended their contracts for months as a result of lockdown, The European Transport Workers’ Federation (ETF) and European Community Shipowners’ Associations […]
Professor Alvin Ing, a pioneer in respiratory medicine and a faculty of Medicine and health sciences, Macquarie University recently conducted a study on Asymptomatic COVID on […]
The Coast Guard medevaced an injured fisherman Wednesday in the Bering Sea, about 80 miles northeast of Dutch Harbor. An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew based out […]
To enhance MSC’s services to customers shipping goods between India and Africa, it is announcing a new direct service from India to West Africa, the MSC […]
An investigation report by Bloomberg has revealed the human cost of shipping in the coronavirus pandemic. Thousands of cruise ship workers were forced to live in […]
A lifeline for seafarers waiting for crew changes has indeed being thrown by Sri Lanka, which straddles a major shipping lane. It has approved crew changes […]
The New Year started with rather peculiar shipping news as an oil tanker in Iraq has found its hull loaded with explosives. The incident once again […]
A cargo ship with 13 crew members sank in East China’s Zhejiang Province on Wednesday. According to the maritime search and rescue center, two have died […]
Things are fast deteriorating on the stranded ships carrying Indian seafarers in China as more and more seafarers’ mental well being are in dire condition. 16 […]