Eight people are confirmed dead while another two have gone missing after a commercial tanker capsized in rough seas off southwestern Japan on Wednesday, March 20. The South Korean-flagged chemical tanker Keoyoung Sun was at anchor near Mutsure Island just off the main island of Honshu when its...
Don’t be fooled by the word “pictorial” in its title. While it does include some first-rate pictures, this book is much more than that. It describes very fully three of the most interesting and intense decades in tanker, indeed ship, development in all of maritime history. Focused on just one ship...
WORK BOAT WORLD: Philip Malone has joined UK-based maritime nuclear energy company Core Power as its new Vice President of Engineering. In his new position, Malone is responsible for providing the strategic, technical, and design leadership required to bring advanced nuclear energy technologies to...
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Japan’s Sumitomo Heavy Industries has adopted a resolution whereby one of its subsidiaries will withdraw from the business of building new general commercial vessels, the company said in a statement on Wednesday, February 14. The company’s shipbuilding business Sumitomo Heavy Industries Marine and...
China Merchants Jinling Shipyard has been awarded a contract to build two additional ice-class tankers in a series for Swedish shipowner Furetank. The tankers will be built to a design by Swedish naval architecture firm FKAB Marine Design. Each will have ice class 1A notation, a maximum deadweight...
To ensure safer maritime journeys in Europe, the European Council presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators have reached a provisional agreement to revise the 2009 directive on the investigation of accidents in the maritime transport sector. The new legislation forms part of the so-called “maritime safety” legislative package. The revised directive aims to simplify and […]
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Barring new evasive techniques by Kremlin technocrats, the rapid rise in Russia’s shadow tanker fleet since the Ukraine war may be reversing as pressure is brought to bear on India and other countries that have discreetly helped Russia beat oil and gas shipping sanctions. The agency waging its own...
The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) changes its Secretary General but rarely, so it is interesting to see the first thoughts of Arsenio Dominguez, who inherited this important role from Kitack Lim at the turn of the year. A port engineer from the Republic of Panama, and a long-term IMO...
How one relates to the hostilities, wars, and conflict (Kindly choose an appropriate term.) in the Middle East seems to vary a good deal, with the attacks upon shipping in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden being consigned to something of a sideshow. There are endless comments about the effects of...
As the number of ships passing through the drought-ridden Panama Canal and the terrorist-hit Red Sea slows, the geopolitical importance of these so-called choke points in world trade comes to the fore once again. The disruption inevitably works its way through to the Asia Pacific. Take the Panama...