Past week has been quite record breaking one. Maersk Line (Largest Shipping Company) is no more the largest as its competitor MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) took over the No 1 slot. Recently MSC CEO said their target and priority was never being to be biggest, but rather Growth, profitability and supporting customers. With the current […]
Last year around same time, shipping giant decided to give 1000$ to each of its seafarer as part of thanks to seafarers. It was an exceptional recognition for seafarers about their sacrifices and contribution in Covid times by keeping the trade moving. Again this year, Maersk has announced similar bonus for all of its seafarers. […]
Fire broke out in container of ‘Zim Kingston’ after she experienced heavy weather due to which around 40 containers were expected to be lost at sea. Fire broke out on ship on Saturday morning. Currently ship is anchor in Constance Bank near Victoria. Ship was enroute from Busan, South Korea to Vancouver, Canada. As per […]
As the news is coming, third officer onboard a chemical tanker named as ‘MV AYANE’ shot dead Chief Mate and Captian onboard the ship. Incident took place around 23:30 on 23rd October, third officer after killing both officers, called up on VHF and talked to authorities regarding what he has done and wants to surrender. […]
The shipping giant, AP Moller Maersk, which is keen on becoming carbon neutral, is expanding its investment in the same to cut down the emissions. As per the reports, company will be putting Air Lubrication System on one of its ship. If you hear the industry experts, this system tends to give around 10% reduction […]
As we know that near orange county of California, an underwater oil pipe line ruptured which resulted in around 3000 gallons of oil spill. As per the findings it is suspected that line could have been damaged by a ship anchor. In this case, USCG is boarding each ship in the vicinity (Plenty of them) […]
The beverage giant COCO COLA, like other brands-Home Depot etc have gone away slightly from the traditional way of shipping their cargo, for the time being yes! As per the news COCO COLA, chartered three bulk carriers for moving around 60,000 tonnes of cargo which is said to be essential for their supply lines to […]
A major oil spill of size 13 square miles have been reported near orange county, California. The oil leak is suspected to coming from the underwater oil pipe for Elly Platform, which is reported to be quite aging structure. The expected leakage amount so far has been around 125,000 gallons. Though the leakage in the […]
Helms Burton Act extended the territorial application of the initial ban to apply to overseas companies trading with Cuba, and penalized foreign companies allegedly “trafficking” in property formerly owned by U.S. citizens but confiscated by Cuba after the Cuban revolution. MSC is involved in cargo operations at the Cuba’s Port of Mariel was sued by […]
US federal Court of New Orleans charged chief engineer and owners of the ship MV Joanna (Bulk Carrier) for tamper with Oil discharge monitoring system and oil record book as well. As per the finding of United States Coast Guard, the sensor for the oil content was bypassed by a metal plate. This way sensor […]