By Krisztina Than and Marton Dunai BUDAPEST, May 31 (Reuters) – Roiling flood waters in the Danube made it impossible for rescuers to reach the wreck of a river boat on Friday, two days after it sank in the Hungarian capital with 28 people feared dead, nearly all of them South Korean tourists. One...
CRUISES mostly involve relaxing, eating and exploring new ports of call, but not all holidays on cruise ships pass smoothly. A cruise ship doctor reveals one thing to always look out for and staff will always know the truth, writes Harriet Mallinson for an article published in Express.co.uk.
Fakes out at sea?Cruise ship holidays spend a fair bit of time out at sea which, if you suffer from travel sickness, could prove tricky.
A cruise ship doctor, however, has revealed how often people pretend...
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Data sourced from industry media, meetings and courses keep on raising worries around the fluctuation in the nature of IMO 2020-consistent fuel – extremely low sulfur fuel oils (VLSFOs), says a report published in Marine Propulsion.
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The technology group Wärtsilä has signed long-term service agreements for four Japanese owned LNG Carriers, reports The Maritime Executive.
What is in the agreement?Wärtsilä’s Dynamic Maintenance Planning (DMP) proposition with performance guarantees is recognised as adding considerable value to the customers’ operations.
Two of the vessels are owned by a joint venture between Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) and JERA Co., Inc. (JERA), the Tokyo based energy company.
The other two are owned by a...
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According to a Reuters’ report, shipowners, who are facing one of the biggest changes in the oil industry in decades, are seeing more fuels that will be compliant with new rules on sulfur emissions from ships, but some say the way forward is far from clear.
The Backdrop of thisThe United Nations shipping agency the International Maritime Organization (IMO) will from January 2020 limit the sulfur content in fuel ships use to 0.5%.
With the exception of some zones around northwest Europe and North...
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A jury in the Western District of Louisiana has acquitted the Russian Master of an oil tanker on all charges related the illegal discharges from the vessel. After spending more than 19 months detained in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Captain Vjaceslavs Birzakovs, Master of the oil tanker RIDGEBURY...
Interview by Paul González-Morgan (Marine Strategy) – Antonio Alcaraz is Reverse Logistics Officer in the chemical industry and a Maritime Photographer, with a genuine passion for boats, ports and terminals. Alcaraz has a special interest in the activity done by pilots at his home port of Valencia,...
WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was unaware of any effort to move the USS John S. McCain that was stationed near the site of his recent speech in Japan. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed to Reuters that an initial request...