Danish Shipping major Maersk has found buyers for its two assets in Russia and they have done deal with IG finance development. Two of its assets one in St. Petersburg and one in Novorossiisk are part of this deal which will make Maersk to completely exit from Russia. Both of them are logistics setups which […]
In a recent accident happened in maritime sector, a UK pilot named Francesco Galia, died while transfer operations from boat to the merchant ship. The highly skilled pilot lost his and is not the alone incident happened so far. Every year such cases of fatal and non-fatal accidents do happens with the pilots all around […]
Merchant navy captain salary latest have been discussed in this article in details. This is a very interesting article on this question about the salary. So, I decided to write a brief yet complete information topic on this matter. Here we will mention the salary which is standard in the market and also discuss what […]
Recently Maersk suspended 5 crew members in connection with allegations related to rape and sexual harassment of a female cadet at sea. According to the blog post by the female cadet, it is not only her but several woman cadet have suffered similarly and this is one of the dark side of shipping industry which […]
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 […]
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 […]