
Turkey Leads Naval Task Group to Clear Black Sea Mines
Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria deploy ships to the Black Sea to detect and neutralize drifting mines, enhancing maritime safety in the region.
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Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria deploy ships to the Black Sea to detect and neutralize drifting mines, enhancing maritime safety in the region.

Seven vessels docked at Port Qasim to manage diverse cargoes, while additional ships are expected to arrive for loading and unloading.

Geodis relocates 25 firefighting helicopters to Chile, enhancing wildfire response capabilities for Pegasus Aero Group.

An Italian tourist died in a Nile River collision, leading to a captain's license suspension and an ongoing investigation into maritime violations.

A powerful storm in the North Atlantic prompts ships to reroute southward, with winds up to 80 knots and waves reaching 54 feet.

After the collision, the Panama-flagged ship named 'Benitamou' was damaged from the port side at the hatch level 4. The ship, which started to take on water, was anchored at the scene.

LONDON shipbroker Braemar ACM notes that 12 vessels with a capacity of 36,000 TEU have been sold for demolition in the past 30 days, taking the year-to-date number to 30, for 52,000 TEU

THE International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) is urging the industry to strengthen fire protection in the cargo area of container vessels; amend the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) by including active and/or passive fire protection onboard new containerships; and consider the need to upgrade fire fighting equipment on existing box ships

Ha'aretzGaza-boundshipsdock in EgyptYnetnewsAccording to the report, some of the activists were also on board the Mavi Marmara, the Turkishshipraided by IDF troops in May....IDF soldier jailed for stealing from Gaza flotillashipHa'aretzIsrael invites Turkish Gazashipsurvivors to testify in internal...www.worldbulletin.netIsraeli soldier jailed for stealing from raidshipReuters IndiaThe Canadian Press -Scoop.co.nz (press release) -CRIENGLISH.com294 haber makalesinin tümü »

Al-Masry Al-YoumGaza-boundshipsdock in EgyptYnetnewsAccording to the report, some of the activists were also on board the Mavi Marmara, the Turkishshipraided by IDF troops in May....IDF soldier jailed for stealing from Gaza flotillashipHa'aretzIsrael invites Turkish Gazashipsurvivors to testify in internal...www.worldbulletin.netIsraeli soldier jailed for stealing from raidshipReuters IndiaThe Canadian Press -Scoop.co.nz (press release) -CRIENGLISH.com291 haber makalesinin tümü »

ReutersAttacked Gaza aidshipshad altered course to Egypt, Turkish...Hurriyet Daily NewsGaza-bound aidshipsattacked by Israeli commandos in May had altered their course to avert a diplomatic crisis, something the head of the group that...Flotilla passengers relive deadly raidAFP'IDF soldiers on Marmara didn't offer medical treatment'Jerusalem PostIsrael fired 308 live bullets at Turkish Gazashippassengers: generalwww.worldbulletin.netReuters -UPI.com -Sunday Business Post218 haber makalesinin tümü »

SunHerald.comNorwegian orders two newshipsMiamiHerald.comBY HANNAH SAMPSON Months after launching it biggest and most expensiveship, Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line on Monday announced plans to order two new...NCL confirms two newshipsTTG liveNorwegian Cruise Line to Build Two 4000-pax CruiseShipsShipCritic Blog (blog)Norwegian Cruise Line to Build Two New Next Generation Freestyle...Business Wire (press release)17 haber makalesinin tümü »

The GuardianSeoul sendsshipsto zone of potential conflict with North KoreaThe Voice of RussiaSeoul has sent its most advanced missileship“Sechzhon the Great” to the zone of potential conflict with North Korea. It is equipped with a computerized...North Korea offers to allow UN inspections: ReportDaily News&AnalysisSouth Korea continues with its scheduled live-fire military exerciseNews-Worthy InformationSouth Korea Concludes Artillery Drill, Scrambles Jet FightersVoice of AmericaIndia Infoline.com4.437 haber makalesinin tümü »

Fox NewsSeoul sendsshipsto zone of potential conflict with North KoreaThe Voice of RussiaSeoul has sent its most advanced missileship“Sechzhon the Great” to the zone of potential conflict with North Korea. It is equipped with a computerized...Pyongyang agrees to return of inspectors: CNNXinhuaNorth Korea offers to allow UN inspections: ReportDaily News&AnalysisSouth Korea continues with its scheduled live-fire military exerciseNews-Worthy InformationIndia Infoline.com4.469 haber makalesinin tümü »

The HinduSeoul sendsshipsto zone of potential conflict with North KoreaThe Voice of RussiaSeoul has sent its most advanced missileship“Sechzhon the Great” to the zone of potential conflict with North Korea. It is equipped with a computerized...Cargoship"Sunrise" successfully docks at South Korean portThe Voice of RussiaPyongyang agrees to return of inspectors: CNNXinhuaNorth Korea offers to allow UN inspections: ReportDaily News&AnalysisYonhap News -Stars and Stripes -News-Worthy Information4.686 haber makalesinin tümü »

New rules may separateships, Alaska sealsSeattle Post IntelligencerBy DAN JOLING AP ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Federal scientists are recommending rules that could restrict cruiseshipvisits to Alaska's Hubbard Glacier near...New rules may separateships, Alaska sealsSeattle Times20 haber makalesinin tümü »

Don''t allowshipsfrom Japan to release water: Goa authoritiesIBNLive.comPTI | 03:04 PM,Apr 22,2011 Panaji, Apr 22 (PTI) Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has asked the two main ports in the state not to allow theshipsarriving from Japan to de-ballast the water, in view of the fears of radiation leaks in that...Shipsfrom Japan not allowed to de-ballast in Goa portsMangalorean.com7 haber makalesinin tümü »

The captain of the stricken vessel MV Rena has been arrested and charged overnight. An estimated 70 containers have fallen off the ship.

Ventures AfricaSA battles to attractshipsto its registryCreamer Media's Engineering NewsEven though South Africa had the biggest economy on the African continent and carried out 98% of its trade by sea, the country did not have a single commercialshippingvessel on itsshipregistry, South African Maritime Safety Authority (Samsa...Nation'Could Be Hub forShip, Oil Rig Repair'AllAfrica.comall 39 news articles »

Defense UpdateRIMPACshipssteam in formation off HawaiiHonolulu Star-AdvertiserShipsand submarines participating in the Rim of the Pacific naval exercises lined up for their class portrait Friday in sun-dappled waters off Hawaii. The flotilla, led by the carrier USS Nimitz, included the Pearl Harbor-based cruisers USS Chosin...Collins sub withdrawal will upset crew: expertSydney Morning HeraldHard-Charging Australian Submarine Temporarily Sidelined During RIMPAC...Defense Updateall 91 news articles »

Defense UpdateRIMPACshipssteam in formation off HawaiiAvionics IntelligenceShipsand submarines participating in the Rim of the Pacific naval exercises lined up for their class portrait Friday in sun-dappled waters off Hawaii. The flotilla, led by the carrier USS Nimitz, included the Pearl Harbor-based cruisers USS Chosin...Collins sub withdrawal will upset crew: expertSydney Morning HeraldHard-Charging Australian Submarine Temporarily Sidelined During RIMPAC...Defense Updateall 91 news articles »

Navyshipsinvade in time for air, water showMilwaukee Journal SentinelJeff Ryan (left) of the U.S. Coast Guard and Devon Jesionowski of the Coast Guard HistoricShip'sCompany dress in authentic uniforms to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812 earlier this year in Boston. more photos. U.S. Coast Guard. Jeff...

Six Chineseshipsenter Japanese waters near disputed islandsWashington PostTOKYO— In an increasingly fierce dispute over control of tiny islands and the sea around them, six Chinese maritime patrolshipsentered Japanese waters Friday. Japan's coast guard asked theshipsto leave; China said they had every right to be there.

Los Angeles TimesFire from tallship'scannon proves all too realLos Angeles TimesLaw enforcement officials said a crew member made an unfortunate mistake when the Amazing Grace cannon ran out of blanks that were to be fed into it and fired in the direction of crew members aboard the Bill of Rights, the other tallshiptaking part...2 Injured in Calif as TallShipFires Live RoundABC NewsBuckshot Wrecks TallShips' Battle ReenactmentNewserall 280 news articles »

The Virginian-Pilot3 localshipsextend deployment amid Gaza conflictThe Virginian-PilotThe amphibious transport dockshipNew York (LPD 21) follows the multipurpose amphibious assaultshipIwo Jima (LHD 7), foreground, as they transit the Suez Canal on Nov. 5, 2012. The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group and embarked 24th Marine...Mideast unrest keeps Iwo Jima ARG in the MedNavyTimes.comall 8 news articles »

Norway's government announced plans on Friday for what is being labelled the world's first tunnel for large ships

In Navy, he survivedship'ssinkingSarasota Herald-TribuneA few months before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, Albert“Zeke” Stires Jr. enlisted in the Navy from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. He was assigned to the USS Quincy (CA-39) as an electrician third class andshippedto the South Pacific to ...and more »

HONG KONG bunker suppliers expect up to 20 per cent more inquiries from shipmanagers who have had fuel contracts cancelled after the world's largest supplier announced its bankruptcy in Singapore, Reuters reports.

TERMINAL operators and inland infrastructure are to blame for port congestion, the said the World Shipping Council (WSC), whose members own 90 per cent of the tonnage afloat.

EXPERTS expect more wide-beam 14,000- to 15,000-TEU ships with 21-deck rows and 53.5 metre beams are coming given the popularity of wide-beamed 8,500 - 10,000-TEUers, according to Alphaliner.

INVESTIGATORS are trying to ascertain what is behind a string of cases involving contaminated bunker fuel being loaded on ships in the US Gulf ports, Panama and Singapore

Three more ships were grounded by the tropical storm in the morning of Aug 23, 2018, namely the 'Jin Hua' north of Kaohsiung, in Tainan city area, the 'Unlimited 2' halway between Kaohsiung and Tainan, and the product tanker 'Dragonaria' (IMO: 9172765) on Kaohsiung southern breakwater at the port’s entrance

A.P. Moller - Maersk (Maersk), one of the largest container shipping operators worldwide, has expanded its strategic partnership with Inmarsat Maritime, a Viasat company, to enhance connectivity across its global fleet of roughly 340 container ships.

THE average capacity offered from the Far East to the US West Coast has fallen to its lowest since February in the past four weeks, according to the latest update from Oslo-based ocean and air freight rate benchmarking platform and container shipping index, Xeneta

QUESTIONS have been raised at the TPM22 conferenc2 in Los Angles by beneficial cargo owners (BCOs) and shippers as to why ocean carriers decided to deploy bigger ships on the transpacific tradelane without consulting hub ports on their ability to handle them

ATHENS' Marine Traffic, one of several online ship location trackers, now finds ship disappearing from its online maps, following the introduction of a new mainland data law, Reuters reports
Global Maritime News & Shipping Industry Updates
35,000/day" class="w-full h-full object-cover"/>CHARTER rates for short employment have 'gone out of control', says container shipping consultancy Alphaliner in its weekly report

CONTAINER shipping consultancy Sea-Intelligence says container shipping schedule reliability declined marginally in April, down 0

The wait time for ships to pick up coal has stretched to three weeks

It is not yet clear in full detail what happened, and how, in Suez Canal, probably later more details will come up. It was a major accident, which involved 5 ships and blocked the Canal. It seems like not only vessels are to blame for mayhem, but Canal management also. One disabled ship in Canal shouldn’t lead to multiply collisions and general chaos.

The number of ships waiting to berth at Brazilian ports to load soybeans and its byproducts is currently almost 60 percent larger than in the same period last year, according to data from shipping agency Williams compiled by Reuters

Technology options exist for converting ocean-going ships from high-pollution heavy fuel oil, to low-pollution alternative fuels. But refitting the fleet will be very expensive. Who should pay for it?

Eight cargo ships beached or sank in typhoon

THE global idle containership fleet stood at 472,995 TEU as of July 24, marking the first time in two years that capacity has fallen below 500,000 TEU.

N. Korean ships allowed into port for humanitarian reasons


Two cargo ships under foreign flag collided Saturday morning, off the Lesvos island, North Aegean.

Washington PostUS icebreaker to rescue 2shipsin AntarcticaWashington PostThe Russian researchshipAkademik Shokalskiy has been trapped in ice-clogged Commonwealth Bay since Christmas Eve, while the Chineseshipwhich came to its rescue, Xue Long or Snow Dragon in Chinese, reported on Friday it too had become stuck ...Seattle's Polar Star heads to Antarctica to aid strandedshipsThe Seattle TimesAntarctic Rescue Updates: US Icebreaker to Rescue 2Shipsin AntarcticaThe Weather ChannelUS Vessel to AidShipsStuck in AntarcticaNew York TimesPolicyMicall 2,307 news articles »

Canada.comNext two Norwegianshipsto be called Escape, BlissUSA TODAYNorwegian Cruise Line fans: Get ready to sail on the Norwegian Escape and the Norwegian Bliss. The Miami-based company today announced that those would be the names of the two 4,200-passenger"Breakaway Plus" vessels it has ordered over the past ...Norwegian Announces New CruiseShipNamesCruise CriticNorwegian Cruise Line Fans Name TheirShipsPR Web (press release)all 19 news articles »

Over the course of the past few years technological leaps and the advance of maritime technologies and design have led to the creation of a new type of vessel, the so called Eco Ship. In essense these are new designs which are optimized for saving fuel, using a combination of available engine technologies
50 articles found with keyword "Ships"

Turkey, Romania, and Bulgaria deploy ships to the Black Sea to detect and neutralize drifting mines, enhancing maritime safety in the region.

Seven vessels docked at Port Qasim to manage diverse cargoes, while additional ships are expected to arrive for loading and unloading.

Geodis relocates 25 firefighting helicopters to Chile, enhancing wildfire response capabilities for Pegasus Aero Group.

An Italian tourist died in a Nile River collision, leading to a captain's license suspension and an ongoing investigation into maritime violations.

A powerful storm in the North Atlantic prompts ships to reroute southward, with winds up to 80 knots and waves reaching 54 feet.

After the collision, the Panama-flagged ship named 'Benitamou' was damaged from the port side at the hatch level 4. The ship, which started to take on water, was anchored at the scene.

LONDON shipbroker Braemar ACM notes that 12 vessels with a capacity of 36,000 TEU have been sold for demolition in the past 30 days, taking the year-to-date number to 30, for 52,000 TEU

THE International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) is urging the industry to strengthen fire protection in the cargo area of container vessels; amend the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) by including active and/or passive fire protection onboard new containerships; and consider the need to upgrade fire fighting equipment on existing box ships

Ha'aretzGaza-boundshipsdock in EgyptYnetnewsAccording to the report, some of the activists were also on board the Mavi Marmara, the Turkishshipraided by IDF troops in May....IDF soldier jailed for stealing from Gaza flotillashipHa'aretzIsrael invites Turkish Gazashipsurvivors to testify in internal...www.worldbulletin.netIsraeli soldier jailed for stealing from raidshipReuters IndiaThe Canadian Press -Scoop.co.nz (press release) -CRIENGLISH.com294 haber makalesinin tümü »

Al-Masry Al-YoumGaza-boundshipsdock in EgyptYnetnewsAccording to the report, some of the activists were also on board the Mavi Marmara, the Turkishshipraided by IDF troops in May....IDF soldier jailed for stealing from Gaza flotillashipHa'aretzIsrael invites Turkish Gazashipsurvivors to testify in internal...www.worldbulletin.netIsraeli soldier jailed for stealing from raidshipReuters IndiaThe Canadian Press -Scoop.co.nz (press release) -CRIENGLISH.com291 haber makalesinin tümü »

ReutersAttacked Gaza aidshipshad altered course to Egypt, Turkish...Hurriyet Daily NewsGaza-bound aidshipsattacked by Israeli commandos in May had altered their course to avert a diplomatic crisis, something the head of the group that...Flotilla passengers relive deadly raidAFP'IDF soldiers on Marmara didn't offer medical treatment'Jerusalem PostIsrael fired 308 live bullets at Turkish Gazashippassengers: generalwww.worldbulletin.netReuters -UPI.com -Sunday Business Post218 haber makalesinin tümü »

SunHerald.comNorwegian orders two newshipsMiamiHerald.comBY HANNAH SAMPSON Months after launching it biggest and most expensiveship, Miami-based Norwegian Cruise Line on Monday announced plans to order two new...NCL confirms two newshipsTTG liveNorwegian Cruise Line to Build Two 4000-pax CruiseShipsShipCritic Blog (blog)Norwegian Cruise Line to Build Two New Next Generation Freestyle...Business Wire (press release)17 haber makalesinin tümü »

The GuardianSeoul sendsshipsto zone of potential conflict with North KoreaThe Voice of RussiaSeoul has sent its most advanced missileship“Sechzhon the Great” to the zone of potential conflict with North Korea. It is equipped with a computerized...North Korea offers to allow UN inspections: ReportDaily News&AnalysisSouth Korea continues with its scheduled live-fire military exerciseNews-Worthy InformationSouth Korea Concludes Artillery Drill, Scrambles Jet FightersVoice of AmericaIndia Infoline.com4.437 haber makalesinin tümü »

Fox NewsSeoul sendsshipsto zone of potential conflict with North KoreaThe Voice of RussiaSeoul has sent its most advanced missileship“Sechzhon the Great” to the zone of potential conflict with North Korea. It is equipped with a computerized...Pyongyang agrees to return of inspectors: CNNXinhuaNorth Korea offers to allow UN inspections: ReportDaily News&AnalysisSouth Korea continues with its scheduled live-fire military exerciseNews-Worthy InformationIndia Infoline.com4.469 haber makalesinin tümü »

The HinduSeoul sendsshipsto zone of potential conflict with North KoreaThe Voice of RussiaSeoul has sent its most advanced missileship“Sechzhon the Great” to the zone of potential conflict with North Korea. It is equipped with a computerized...Cargoship"Sunrise" successfully docks at South Korean portThe Voice of RussiaPyongyang agrees to return of inspectors: CNNXinhuaNorth Korea offers to allow UN inspections: ReportDaily News&AnalysisYonhap News -Stars and Stripes -News-Worthy Information4.686 haber makalesinin tümü »

New rules may separateships, Alaska sealsSeattle Post IntelligencerBy DAN JOLING AP ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Federal scientists are recommending rules that could restrict cruiseshipvisits to Alaska's Hubbard Glacier near...New rules may separateships, Alaska sealsSeattle Times20 haber makalesinin tümü »

Don''t allowshipsfrom Japan to release water: Goa authoritiesIBNLive.comPTI | 03:04 PM,Apr 22,2011 Panaji, Apr 22 (PTI) Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has asked the two main ports in the state not to allow theshipsarriving from Japan to de-ballast the water, in view of the fears of radiation leaks in that...Shipsfrom Japan not allowed to de-ballast in Goa portsMangalorean.com7 haber makalesinin tümü »

The captain of the stricken vessel MV Rena has been arrested and charged overnight. An estimated 70 containers have fallen off the ship.

Ventures AfricaSA battles to attractshipsto its registryCreamer Media's Engineering NewsEven though South Africa had the biggest economy on the African continent and carried out 98% of its trade by sea, the country did not have a single commercialshippingvessel on itsshipregistry, South African Maritime Safety Authority (Samsa...Nation'Could Be Hub forShip, Oil Rig Repair'AllAfrica.comall 39 news articles »

Defense UpdateRIMPACshipssteam in formation off HawaiiHonolulu Star-AdvertiserShipsand submarines participating in the Rim of the Pacific naval exercises lined up for their class portrait Friday in sun-dappled waters off Hawaii. The flotilla, led by the carrier USS Nimitz, included the Pearl Harbor-based cruisers USS Chosin...Collins sub withdrawal will upset crew: expertSydney Morning HeraldHard-Charging Australian Submarine Temporarily Sidelined During RIMPAC...Defense Updateall 91 news articles »

Defense UpdateRIMPACshipssteam in formation off HawaiiAvionics IntelligenceShipsand submarines participating in the Rim of the Pacific naval exercises lined up for their class portrait Friday in sun-dappled waters off Hawaii. The flotilla, led by the carrier USS Nimitz, included the Pearl Harbor-based cruisers USS Chosin...Collins sub withdrawal will upset crew: expertSydney Morning HeraldHard-Charging Australian Submarine Temporarily Sidelined During RIMPAC...Defense Updateall 91 news articles »

Navyshipsinvade in time for air, water showMilwaukee Journal SentinelJeff Ryan (left) of the U.S. Coast Guard and Devon Jesionowski of the Coast Guard HistoricShip'sCompany dress in authentic uniforms to commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812 earlier this year in Boston. more photos. U.S. Coast Guard. Jeff...

Six Chineseshipsenter Japanese waters near disputed islandsWashington PostTOKYO— In an increasingly fierce dispute over control of tiny islands and the sea around them, six Chinese maritime patrolshipsentered Japanese waters Friday. Japan's coast guard asked theshipsto leave; China said they had every right to be there.

Los Angeles TimesFire from tallship'scannon proves all too realLos Angeles TimesLaw enforcement officials said a crew member made an unfortunate mistake when the Amazing Grace cannon ran out of blanks that were to be fed into it and fired in the direction of crew members aboard the Bill of Rights, the other tallshiptaking part...2 Injured in Calif as TallShipFires Live RoundABC NewsBuckshot Wrecks TallShips' Battle ReenactmentNewserall 280 news articles »

The Virginian-Pilot3 localshipsextend deployment amid Gaza conflictThe Virginian-PilotThe amphibious transport dockshipNew York (LPD 21) follows the multipurpose amphibious assaultshipIwo Jima (LHD 7), foreground, as they transit the Suez Canal on Nov. 5, 2012. The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group and embarked 24th Marine...Mideast unrest keeps Iwo Jima ARG in the MedNavyTimes.comall 8 news articles »

Norway's government announced plans on Friday for what is being labelled the world's first tunnel for large ships

In Navy, he survivedship'ssinkingSarasota Herald-TribuneA few months before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941, Albert“Zeke” Stires Jr. enlisted in the Navy from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio. He was assigned to the USS Quincy (CA-39) as an electrician third class andshippedto the South Pacific to ...and more »

HONG KONG bunker suppliers expect up to 20 per cent more inquiries from shipmanagers who have had fuel contracts cancelled after the world's largest supplier announced its bankruptcy in Singapore, Reuters reports.

TERMINAL operators and inland infrastructure are to blame for port congestion, the said the World Shipping Council (WSC), whose members own 90 per cent of the tonnage afloat.

EXPERTS expect more wide-beam 14,000- to 15,000-TEU ships with 21-deck rows and 53.5 metre beams are coming given the popularity of wide-beamed 8,500 - 10,000-TEUers, according to Alphaliner.

INVESTIGATORS are trying to ascertain what is behind a string of cases involving contaminated bunker fuel being loaded on ships in the US Gulf ports, Panama and Singapore

Three more ships were grounded by the tropical storm in the morning of Aug 23, 2018, namely the 'Jin Hua' north of Kaohsiung, in Tainan city area, the 'Unlimited 2' halway between Kaohsiung and Tainan, and the product tanker 'Dragonaria' (IMO: 9172765) on Kaohsiung southern breakwater at the port’s entrance

A.P. Moller - Maersk (Maersk), one of the largest container shipping operators worldwide, has expanded its strategic partnership with Inmarsat Maritime, a Viasat company, to enhance connectivity across its global fleet of roughly 340 container ships.

THE average capacity offered from the Far East to the US West Coast has fallen to its lowest since February in the past four weeks, according to the latest update from Oslo-based ocean and air freight rate benchmarking platform and container shipping index, Xeneta

QUESTIONS have been raised at the TPM22 conferenc2 in Los Angles by beneficial cargo owners (BCOs) and shippers as to why ocean carriers decided to deploy bigger ships on the transpacific tradelane without consulting hub ports on their ability to handle them

ATHENS' Marine Traffic, one of several online ship location trackers, now finds ship disappearing from its online maps, following the introduction of a new mainland data law, Reuters reports
Global Maritime News & Shipping Industry Updates
35,000/day" class="w-full h-full object-cover"/>CHARTER rates for short employment have 'gone out of control', says container shipping consultancy Alphaliner in its weekly report

CONTAINER shipping consultancy Sea-Intelligence says container shipping schedule reliability declined marginally in April, down 0

The wait time for ships to pick up coal has stretched to three weeks

It is not yet clear in full detail what happened, and how, in Suez Canal, probably later more details will come up. It was a major accident, which involved 5 ships and blocked the Canal. It seems like not only vessels are to blame for mayhem, but Canal management also. One disabled ship in Canal shouldn’t lead to multiply collisions and general chaos.

The number of ships waiting to berth at Brazilian ports to load soybeans and its byproducts is currently almost 60 percent larger than in the same period last year, according to data from shipping agency Williams compiled by Reuters

Technology options exist for converting ocean-going ships from high-pollution heavy fuel oil, to low-pollution alternative fuels. But refitting the fleet will be very expensive. Who should pay for it?

Eight cargo ships beached or sank in typhoon

THE global idle containership fleet stood at 472,995 TEU as of July 24, marking the first time in two years that capacity has fallen below 500,000 TEU.

N. Korean ships allowed into port for humanitarian reasons


Two cargo ships under foreign flag collided Saturday morning, off the Lesvos island, North Aegean.

Washington PostUS icebreaker to rescue 2shipsin AntarcticaWashington PostThe Russian researchshipAkademik Shokalskiy has been trapped in ice-clogged Commonwealth Bay since Christmas Eve, while the Chineseshipwhich came to its rescue, Xue Long or Snow Dragon in Chinese, reported on Friday it too had become stuck ...Seattle's Polar Star heads to Antarctica to aid strandedshipsThe Seattle TimesAntarctic Rescue Updates: US Icebreaker to Rescue 2Shipsin AntarcticaThe Weather ChannelUS Vessel to AidShipsStuck in AntarcticaNew York TimesPolicyMicall 2,307 news articles »

Canada.comNext two Norwegianshipsto be called Escape, BlissUSA TODAYNorwegian Cruise Line fans: Get ready to sail on the Norwegian Escape and the Norwegian Bliss. The Miami-based company today announced that those would be the names of the two 4,200-passenger"Breakaway Plus" vessels it has ordered over the past ...Norwegian Announces New CruiseShipNamesCruise CriticNorwegian Cruise Line Fans Name TheirShipsPR Web (press release)all 19 news articles »

Over the course of the past few years technological leaps and the advance of maritime technologies and design have led to the creation of a new type of vessel, the so called Eco Ship. In essense these are new designs which are optimized for saving fuel, using a combination of available engine technologies