More come to SUNY Maritime for STCW training

JULY 25, 2016 — More professional mariners are coming to SUNY Maritime College, Fort Schuyler, NY, for training and courses to maintain their credentials and endorsements. Increased enrollment is being seen across

Box ship scrape is first accident in expanded Panama Canal

JULY 25, 2016 — A Cosco neopanamax containership last month became the first ship to make a commercial transit of the expanded Panama Canal. Now another Cosco neopanamax, the 8,500 TEU Xin

Aircraft carrier to get post-Fukushima decontamination

JULY 25, 2016 – Earlier this year, defense media reported Navy officials as saying that 16 ships remained contaminated with low levels of radiation five years after taking in part in relief

HHI to build MSC tanker for Royal New Zealand Navy

JULY 25, 2016 – South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), the world’s largest shipbuilder, has won an order to build a 23,000 ton class logistics support vessel for New Zealand Defence Force’s

NY Waterway ferry makes “hard landing”

JULY 24, 2016 — Seventeen passengers aboard the New York Waterway ferry Peter R. Weiss were injured after it struck a dock in Jersey City on Saturday night, local media report, citing

Panama Canal launches Green Connection Award

JULY 23, 2016 — The Panama Canal has launched the Green Connection Award, a new initiative to recognize customers who demonstrate excellent environmental stewardship, and to encourage others to implement technologies and

VIDEO: Damen ASD duo headed for Argentina

JULY 22, 2016 — After successfully completing sea trials, two Damen ASD Tugs 2810 — Estibador I and Estibador II — are headed from Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania to Puerto General

Siemens puts a specialized mobile workshop in a box

JULY 22, 2016 — To facilitate maintenance work on its Siship eSipod drive when ships are in dry dock, Siemens AG has developed what it calls “a unique logistics concept based on

Clogged fuel filter and human error led to cruise ship fire

JULY 22, 2016 — A French marine safety investigation report into the November 18, 2015 fire on board the Compagnie du Ponant expedition cruise ship Le Boréal, near the Falkland Islands, finds

U.K. ferry will feature battery hybrid technology

JULY 22, 2016 — A new ferry being built at the Cemre shipyard in Turkey for U.K. operator Wightlink will be the first to utilize Wärtsilä hybrid battery technology to improve efficiency,

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