Last month pirates on the West Coast of Africa near Benin attacked a container vessel – Tommi Ritscher and kidnapped 8 crew members including Captain of the ship. Bulgarian nationality Captain, along with other crew members, was in captivity for more than 1 month as we see from the news that is coming from various […]
Electrical propulsion on ships has been discussed in this article in detail. Electric propulsion is used mostly on passenger vessels or Cruise lines and other small vessels. But with emissions norms becoming stringent, they will make their way into merchant shipping as well. Electrical propulsion has lot of advantages over the internal combustion engines which […]
World third largest shipping company CMA CGM (Compagnie Maritime d’Affrètement (CMA) and Compagnie Générale Maritime (CGM)) have ordered seven new dual fuel container ships. Capacity of each ship will be 7600 teu. It is interesting to note that all of them will be powered by LNG. CMA CGM has been pushing the use of LNG […]
