A senior citizen from Canada who was arrested, has been sentenced to 40 months federal prison after he was caught with about 200 gallons liquid methamphetamine on his sailboat. He was going from Mexico to Canada on his sailboat (Mandalay). 66 year old was somewhere near to about 225 nautical miles off Newport, Oregon in […]
Shipping hub Singapore has revised the requirements for the crew change in their latest circular. Just for the information of the readers, 6000+ crew changes have been carried out at this port city in the lockdown phase. Following are some of the changes in the requirements: Now ship can sail off after port clearances and […]
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 […]
