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If you’re considering joining the Commercial Maritime industry, it’s likely that these four letters "STCW" are going to become some...

Baltic index hits fresh multi-year lows on Capesize dip Baltic index hits fresh 2-1/2-year low as larger vessel rates slip...

Ever wondered why we refer to a vessel as ‘SHE’? However, even the Lloyd’s Register Foundation doesn’t provide us with...

The world as we know it has come to become more environmentally conscious. It is not all about plastic bags...

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an inevitable surge in the use of digital technologies due to social distancing norms...

The Covid-19 pandemic hit us suddenly and caught us unaware. It crippled life in an unprecedented way and, in many...

India has a coastline spanning 7516.6 kilometres, forming one of the biggest peninsulas in the world. It is serviced by...

Shipbuilding in India gained momentum in the nineteenth century. India has had a tradition of Shipping and Shipbuilding for millennia....

Indian shipbuilding has a long marine history that dates to the Harappan and Mohenjo-Daro civilizations. Shipbuilding was a significant and...

From the time that ships started sailing, flags were in place as a mode of communication or expression of intent....

Water is an attractive factor when people choose where to live. When we look for a new place of accommodation...

If asked to name a few parts of the ship, a vessel's Anchor would surely be the first item on...

So far through the series, we have been reading about the Ships and their greatest shipwrecks. Through the vast categories...

In the book, “Let your life speak” Parker J. Palmer quotes, “Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some...

We all know about the Titanic and its fateful journey. But have you heard of "Australia’s Titanic"? In our series...

As Michel Serres famously puts it, “Voyaging begins when one burns one’s boats, adventures begin with a Shipwreck” and through...

There’s something horrifyingly fascinating about a mysterious disappearance, and vast oceans offer seemingly endless space to vanish. The true fate...

Endurance was originally known as Polaris and was built for an Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache and the Norwegian...

The USS Samuel B. Roberts (DE-413) was the first of three U.S. Navy ships of the same name that served...

The SS City of Cairo was a British passenger ship. It was manufactured in 1915 for Ellerman Lines Ltd of...