WORKSHOP BY FORWARD SEAMEN’S UNION OF INDIA
The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (“MLC, 2006”) ensures a minimum working and living standards for all seamen working on ships flying the flags of...
SILVER JUBILEE OF MOL
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) announced that on July 25, it hosted a party in Jakarta for about 200 attendees, including customers, to celebrate...
THE PORT OF ROTTERDAM SETS AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION WITH RPA3
The authority of Port of Rotterdam has tested autonomous navigation by converting a patrol vessel into a floating lab including data on metrics such...
HULL CRACK LEADS TO OIL SPILL
The hull of the 1,727 TEU Matson containership S/S Matsonia cracked spilling over heavy fuel oil into the San Francisco Bay.
The vessel was built...
U.S. SLAPS APPROVAL ON COSCO TANKER UNITS
The United States is implementing new approvals on various Chinese entities and people who it accuses of knowingly transferring oil from Iran in violation...
CREW MEMBERS EVACUATED AFTER CARGO VESSEL DRIFTS ASHORE
Under extreme weather conditions, a Cargo vessel remained stranded in the Black sea of north-eastern Istanbul on 19 December. The Turkish emergency crews was...
10 Golden Ocean Ships Get Fresh Funding
The Golden Ocean Group Limited (GOGL), Norway based dry bulk shipping company, revealed the fact of obtaining a loan of USD 120 million towards...
“ROBOATS” COULD FORM POP-UP BRIDGES
Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have formed a fleet of robotic boats that can autonomously detach, attach and assemble itself into a...
US PORTS DESIRE $4 BILLION TO ELEVATE SECURITY
Recent reports of “The State of Freight” infrastructure series says, U.S. member ports of the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA) identified approximately $4...
SULPHUR 2020 – Lowering of Sulphur oxide emissions by 2020
Oxides of Sulphur (SOx) are long known to be severely damaging to people’s respiratory health and they are responsible for harmful acid rain causing...
