An International Maritime Organization working group that met virtually last week has produced a proposed package of additional CO2 reduction measures for the existing global shipping fleet. The draft text will now
“Life during COVID is hell,” is one response received in the most recent survey on Seafarers Happiness survey conducted by the Mission to Seafarers with the support of the Shipowners’ P&I Club
Carnival Corporation’s Costa Cruises brand reports another milestone for Costa Smeralda, its first ship fueled by liquefied natural gas (LNG). The Costa flagship’s bunkering with the fuel on October 25 in the
U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien last week announced plans to conduct a feasibility study on whether to base U.S. Coast Guard Sentinel Class Fast Response Cutters (FRCs) in American Samoa. “The
An incident in which a group of stowaways took control of the Navios Tankers Management 75,000 dwt tanker Nave Andromeda in the English Channel off Gosport, Hampshire, ended when U.K. special forces
A project that aims to put a RO/RO operating on liquid green hydrogen (LH2) into operation by 2024 has been granted EUR 8 million (about $9.5 million) in EU funding. Called the
Singapore-headquartered BW LPG reports that its Very Large Gas Carrier (VLGC) BW Gemini has started a week-long series of sea and gas trials. The ship is the first VLGC to be retrofitted
A commercially viable, zero-carbon, ammonia-fueled marine two-stroke engine could be a reality by as soon as 2024. That is the aim of the AEngine project, a consortium set up with the support
Considered on a per capita basis, there may not be another state in the nation paying as high a cost from passenger ships not sailing as Alaska. That is one of the
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Tuesday, October 20, called for major safety improvements to small passenger vessels after its investigation of a 2019 California dive boat fire that killed 34