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Installation Of Offshore Wind Turbines On World’s Largest Offshore Jack-Up Installation Vessel Announced

Installation Of Offshore Wind Turbines On World’s Largest Offshore Jack-Up Installation Vessel Announced

Dogger Bank Wind Farm and Jan De Nul Group announce the signing of the final contract for the transport and...
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Captain Of Cargo Chip Claims To Have Warned About Explosive Chemicals Onboard For Years Prior To Blasts

Captain Of Cargo Chip Claims To Have Warned About Explosive Chemicals Onboard For Years Prior To Blasts

Boris Prokoshev, the captain of the Russian cargo ship suspected to have carried the 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate responsible...
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World’s First Zero-Emissions Top Handlers Performing Well At Port Of Los Angeles

World’s First Zero-Emissions Top Handlers Performing Well At Port Of Los Angeles

The world’s first zero-emissions top handlers, unveiled last fall as part of a pre-commercial demonstration project at the Port of...
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AES says pandemic impacts less severe than feared, decarbonization plan on track

AES says pandemic impacts less severe than feared, decarbonization plan on track

The coronavirus pandemic and its impact on second quarter 2020 results did not turn out to be as "severe" as...
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Container ships sent to Tripoli to keep Lebanon supply lines running

Container ships sent to Tripoli to keep Lebanon supply lines running

Leading container lines are diverting ships to Lebanon’s smaller terminal of Tripoli after the devastating explosion at Beirut’s port that...
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$3.5 Billion requested for COVID-19 relief for U.S. maritime industry

$3.5 Billion requested for COVID-19 relief for U.S. maritime industry

The International Propeller Club of the United States has requested that Congress appropriate $3.5 billion for the relief and support...
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Plane carrying WHO trauma and surgical supplies arrives in Beirut, Lebanon

Plane carrying WHO trauma and surgical supplies arrives in Beirut, Lebanon

A plane carrying 20 tonnes of WHO health supplies has landed in Beirut, Lebanon, to support the treatment of patients...
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Bulk carrier sitting on reef off Mauritius starts to leak bunker fuel

Bulk carrier sitting on reef off Mauritius starts to leak bunker fuel

The 203,000 dwt Wakashio bulk carrier, which ran aground on a reef just off the southeast coastline of Mauritius on July 26, has started...
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AMSA Fines $20000 To Gold Coast Boat Share Company For Operating Illegally

AMSA Fines $20000 To Gold Coast Boat Share Company For Operating Illegally

Gold Coast company, GC Princess Boatshare Pty Ltd, has been found guilty of operating a domestic commercial vessel unlawfully and...
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Crew Change Crises Worsens In Australia As Crew Of Two Ships Refuse To Sail

Crew Change Crises Worsens In Australia As Crew Of Two Ships Refuse To Sail

The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) says Australia is facing economic carnage from clogged ports as a result of rapidly...
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Beirut Port Officials Placed Under House Arrest Over Negligence Of Duty

Beirut Port Officials Placed Under House Arrest Over Negligence Of Duty

On 4th August two massive explosions shook the port of Beirut, Lebanon and the surrounding areas. The blast occurred in...
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Beirut Blast: 10 Out Of 11 Missing Filipino Seafarers Located And Declared Safe

Beirut Blast: 10 Out Of 11 Missing Filipino Seafarers Located And Declared Safe

As per the report of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Philippines, 10 of the 11 missing Filipinos lost during...
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U.S. sends first shipment of crude to Saudi Arabia in over a decade

U.S. sends first shipment of crude to Saudi Arabia in over a decade

The United States sent a shipment of crude to Saudi Arabia in June, data from the U.S. Census Bureau showed...
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China to promote Tianjin Port as an International Shipping Hub

China to promote Tianjin Port as an International Shipping Hub

China’s National Development and Reform Commission and Ministry of Transport jointly issued guidelines to speed up Tianjin’s development to be...
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Cranes collapse at JNPT due to cyclonic winds

Cranes collapse at JNPT due to cyclonic winds

Three rail mounted quay cranes used for loading and unloading containers at the terminal run by Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust...
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Beirut Port Suffers Total Destruction From Blasts

Beirut Port Suffers Total Destruction From Blasts

The internet was shaken on 4th August when videos of the explosion near the port of Beirut, Lebanon, went viral....
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Shipping Emissions Are Projected To Increase By Up To 50% Until 2050 – New Study

Shipping Emissions Are Projected To Increase By Up To 50% Until 2050 – New Study

The greenhouse gas emissions of shipping have increased from 977 million tonnes in 2012 to 1,076 million tonnes in 2018...
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Maritime UK launches Mental Health Benchmark Survey

Maritime UK launches Mental Health Benchmark Survey

Maritime UK, the umbrella body for the £46bn maritime sector, is partnering with Safer Highways to launch its first survey...
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India’s jet fuel exports seen extending declines on refinery works, weak demand

India’s jet fuel exports seen extending declines on refinery works, weak demand

India’s jet fuel exports which dropped almost 60% in June from a year earlier are expected to keep falling at...
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Govt taking steps to reduce Logistics cost to boost growth: Mansukh Mandaviya

Govt taking steps to reduce Logistics cost to boost growth: Mansukh Mandaviya

The Government has initiated multiple steps to reduce high logistics cost, including strengthening inland waterways, Shipping Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said...
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