Stolt Valor suffers explosion
The Navy reports that guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) and U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Baranof (WPB 1318) rescued 24 Filipino mariners in the Persian Gulf, early March 15. At
The Navy reports that guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) and U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Baranof (WPB 1318) rescued 24 Filipino mariners in the Persian Gulf, early March 15. At
Wärtsilä has signed a five-year service agreement with U.S.-based Prestige Cruise Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Oceania Cruises and Regent Seven Seas Cruises. The long-term service agreement covers six vessels, a
With the Costa Concordia incident still impacting bookings, the top executives of Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) gave delegates gathered at Cruise Shipping Miami their views on cruising’s safety record and policies
Carnival Corporation’s AIDA Cruises subsidiary has released more details about the two 3,250 passenger cruise ships that it has on order at the Nagasaki Shipyard of Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) for
In an Oslo Stock Exchange announcement today, Wilh. Wilhelmsen Holding ASA said before tax profits would take a $15 million hit as a result of a decision by its subsidiary Wilhelmsen Technical
The BBC reports that the captain of a vessel involved in a collision with a Stenaline ferry at the mouth of Belfast Lough will appear in court on Friday on a charge
The news that an ME-GI principle LNG-fired engine will be demonstrated next year by MOL and Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding Co. (see earlier story) is one of several indications of growing interest
U.S.-flag containership operator Horizon Lines, Inc., (OTCQB: HRZL) has issued an update on its efforts to mitigate environmental impact from shipping operations and intermodal transport. “Ensuring sustained environmental protection has always been
Wärtsilä has launched a new medium voltage power drive. The product will enable the delivery of electro and automation systems for large, electric propulsion vessels, such as drilling rigs and tankers, large
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) is to temporarily convert the Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co.(MES) slow speed diesel of one of its newbuildings into a ME-GI (electronically-controlled gas injection) engine. The engine