STABILITY INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS FOR LIGHTSHIP PROPERTY CHANGES
Applicability: shipowners, ship operators, ship managers, ship masters, ship designers and ship builders.
SOLAS (Chapter II-1, Reg 5.4) requires that where any alterations are made to a ship so as to materially affect the stability...
AUSTRALIA DESTROYS INDONESIAN FISHING BOAT FOR ILLEGAL SHARK FINNING
The Australian Border Force has destroyed an Indonesian fishing boat after finding hundreds of illegally-obtained shark fins on board off the remote Northern Territory.
On February 11, the Australian authorities spotted and intercepted the Indonesian...
NEWEST HYBRID RORO SHIP ROUNDS OFF GRIMALDI’S GG5G FLEET
Italian shipping company Grimaldi Group has taken delivery of the final hybrid roll-on/roll-off (RoRo) ship in its Grimaldi Green 5th Generation (GG5G) class.
The Italian-flagged Eco Napoli, the last of 14 ships in the GG5G...
PORT FEES ON CHINESE SHIPS WOULD HIT U.S. AG, ENERGY AND SHIPPING
While businesses have been closely following the Trump administration's tariff policies, the seven-figure port fee proposal from the US Trade Representative (USTR) could have even deeper effects on American shipping interests. If adopted, Chinese-built...
SHELL-BREVIK ENGINEERING LCO2 CARRIER DESIGN WINS DNV AIP
Norwegian class society DNV has awarded a detailed approval in principle (AiP) to the UK-based Shell International Trading and Shipping Company Limited, part of Shell, and Norway-based marine engineering company Brevik Engineering for their...
OFFICERS ON VAN OORD DREDGER PLEAD GUILTY FOR SINGAPORE ALLISION/OIL SPILL
Four of the officers who were aboard the Van Oord dredger Vox Maxima in June 2024 when it blacked out and hit a bunker tanker pleaded guilty in a Singapore court on Thursday for...
TDI-BROOKS WRAPS UP SEISMIC SURVEY FOR SHELL OFFSHORE NIGERIA
U.S.-headquartered TDI-Brooks has finalized its job with Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) which entailed series of 2D ultra high-resolution (2DUHR) seismic site survey and pipeline route assessment work offshore Nigeria.
According to...
CLASS SOCIETIES ABS AND DNV ADVANCE PLANS FOR AMMONIA-CRACKING BULKER
An innovative project to develop a shipboard ammonia-cracking technology took a key step forward toward the vision of building a zero-emission dry bulk carrier for the copper industry. Class societies ABS and DNV working...
FUTURE IMO AND ILO LEGISLATION AUTUMN 2024
Including adopted amendments entering into force on or after 1 November 2024, requirements which have entered force but are phasing in for some ships, and significant developments up to and including the Marine Environment...
TOTAL INSURED LOSSES FROM NORTH SEA CONTAINERSHIP-TANKER ALLISION TO LIKELY RANGE BETWEEN $100M TO...
Total insured losses resulting from the allision between a Portuguese-flagged containership and a US-flagged tanker in the North Sea are anticipated to range between $100 million and $300 million for all coverages, according to...