News is coming from Philippines that 2nd engineer with virus symptoms died on a cargo ship. Name of 2nd engineer is Aristone Calad, 65, a native of Deplahan, Zamboanga Sibugay. He was found dead in his bed. Investigation showed that he had symptoms of cold, cough and fever. His colleagues said that after cargo operations […]
EU MRV and the IMO DCS. The shipping industry is responsible for about 3% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and this share is expected to increase in the future. To address this challenge, the European Union (EU) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) have introduced two different but complementary regulations to monitor, report and […]
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 […]
