EVs and car carrier MOL is looking to AI for car carrier fire protection

VIDEO: MOL opts for AI for car carrier fire protection

As Japan’s Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) knows only too well from its own experience with the Liberty Ace incident, car carrier fires can be costly. To guard against future incidents, the

Image showing drone strike on Russian landing craft

VIDEO: Ukrainian sea drones sink two Russian landing craft

As the case of the dead Russian admiral who wasn’t that dead reminds us, it’s always wise to be cautious about reports coming out of a war zone. However, the Main Intelligence

NTSB report report implicates bank effect

L-ion battery explosion in hand-held radio causes $3 million tanker fire

The thermal runaway of a cell within a handheld radio’s lithium-ion battery led to a fire on the 106,000 dwt Liberian-flagged oil tanker S-Trust last year that resulted in $3 million in

Outrage over Russian attack that saw port pilot killed

Port pilot killed in Russian attack on merchant ship

According to multiple reports, a Russian missile attack on a civilian vessel entering the port of Pivdennyi in Odesa yesterday saw the Ukrainian port pilot killed and injured crewmembers. Ukrainian national news

Conception dive boat fire

Conception dive boat fire: Captain guilty of seaman’s manslaughter

The captain of the Conception, the dive boat that caught fire in 2019 with the loss of 34 lives, was yesterday found guilty of seaman’s manslaughter. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the

Protestor on vessel Cape Orlando

Coast Guard removes protesters from RRF ship Cape Orlando

Coast Guard Sector San Francisco watchstanders received a report of a demonstration happening within the Oakland Harbor near a vessel, the MARAD Ready Reserve Force (RRF) RO/RO ship Cape Orlando, around 8:30

Stat-X: Supplying fixed fire protection for almost every size of vessel

SPONSORED CONTENT: When mariners consider fixed fire protection systems on vessels, most think only of big, complex options—e.g., large banks of CO2 cylinders piped to a ship’s hold, complicated clean agent systems

Spirit of Norfolk had no fire detection or firefighting systems

NTSB: Time for action on passenger boat fire detection and extinguishing systems

The National Transportation Safety Board has now released its report on the engine room fire that broke out on the passenger vessel Spirit of Norfolk on June 7, 2022. It is again

new GMDSS terminal

Intellian and Inmarsat in MOU on new GMDSS terminal

Intellian Technologies and Inmarsat Maritime have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) covering the development of a next generation GMDSS safety terminal, designed for operation over Inmarsat’s ELERA L-band network. The new

Cathlamet ferry "hard landing" was caused by fatigue says NTSB

NTSB: Fatigue and complacency led to $10.6 million WSF “hard landing“

The National Transportation Safety Board says that fatigue and complacency led to the Washington State Ferries (WSF) passenger and car ferry Cathlamet striking a mooring structure, or dolphin, at a Seattle ferry

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