HMCC News

The latest Seafarers Happiness Index report from The Mission to Seafarers has been published for the third quarter of 2021. The report highlights happiness levels have […]

Hitachi Zosen Corporation (Hitachi Zosen), Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd.(MOL) and Yanmar Power Technology Co., Ltd. (YPT) have proposed “Development of Methane Slip (Note 1) Reduction Technology […]

A sailor with a past criminal record murdered a captain and the first officer on board an oil tanker. The perpetrator then surrendered himself to the […]

Pirates aiming to seize a Panama-flagged cargo vessel sailing in the Gulf of Guinea had all plans ruined as a helicopter with Russian marines came to […]

Officials say that stormy weather keeps hindering firefighters from boarding a container vessel that kept burning near Victoria. During a press conference, Paul Barrett, a planning […]

The first LNG bunker vessel to be based in France has been officially named “Gas Vitality”, at a ceremony held at Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding, China. The 18,600-m³ […]

Vard Electro will deliver its largest battery package to date for a vessel retrofit as the Norwegian shipowner proactively upgrades its fleet with hybrid power in […]

The Republic of Botswana has become the latest state to join the International Maritime Organization (IMO). IMO now has 175 Member States. Botswana deposited its instrument […]

Specialist heavy-lift project carrier, AAL Shipping (AAL) has acquired two heavy-lift ‘mega-size 33,000dwt W-Class multipurpose vessels (MPVs) from the second-hand market, the ‘AAL Mars’ and the […]

The technology group Wärtsilä announces its “Set for 30” commitment to achieving ambitious climate targets. Wärtsilä’s goal is by 2030: To become carbon neutral in its […]