Retailers are going one more step ahead to main their supply chain post covid times. As we know that earlier retail giant like Walmart, Ikea etc chartered ships for their supply, now news is that COSTCO has hired around 3 ships of around 1000 TEU capacity each to move the supplies faster from ASIA to […]
Maersk have planned to divest its container manufacturing business to China International Marine Containers Ltd. (CIMC). Maersk Container Industry (MCI) is expert when it comes to making reefer containers and was making the same for so many for Maersk and other business. Since Denmark based is now shifting its goal to fully focus on only […]
This is second time in the year 2021 that USS Ronald Reagan and its strike group have been deployed here in south china. This region is quite tensed yet important part in the maritime world right now. Fleet of all the ships involved in the deployment came here on 24th September. Strike group will carry […]
As per the news coming from the maritime industry, there was a major intrusion by foreign hackers on the computer networks of one of the most important maritime port in United States. Though there was no affect on the operation of this busy port-which lot of news networks are calling PORT OF HOUSTON. The database […]
In a process to reduce carbon emissions by cutting down the consumption of heavy fuel oil, MSC which is 2nd largest carrier in the shipping world has taken a step ahead. Air Lubrication system for 30 vessels of their fleet was ordered from UK Based maker Silverstream technologies. As per the experts of the industry, […]
Wind Turbine Installation Vessel (WTIV) design-The NP20000X ULAM developed by naval architects by NED-Project working with GPZ Energy was approved in principal by ABS. This modern installation vessel for the wind turbines will be able to handle somewhere around 15-20 MW installations. One more good thing is that this vessel can be powered by hydrogen […]
MSC LAUREN which is 12500 teu ship is now doing 15 days quarantine in anchorage outside Peru, as one of their crew member was found to be covid-19 positive. Not much information has been given about this incident. Ship was on Asia to West coast of Latin America route. On 21st September, one crew member […]
Two bulk carriers have reported to be in the collision incident while at Aegean Sea. Clipper Como (Danish Bulker) and Levantes ( Greek Bulker) collided with each other. While there are no news regarding damage to the Levantes, but Danish bulker suffered heavy damages as seen in the picture. It seems that the port side […]
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 […]