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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
First of five- 31 type frigate, HMS Venturer had its first steel cut recently. Ceremony of first steel cut took place at Babcock’s factory in Rosyth, Scotland. These new type of frigates will add more power to the surface combat capability of Royal Navy. The good things are not only limited to UK Naval forces […]
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 […]