Maritime & Shipping News

E-CREWING deploys new satellite vessel tracking service - NAVISPOTTER.COM

E-CREWING proudly announces trial deployment of innovating satellite vessel tracking service. No matter how far is your vessel beyond of terrastial AIS station coverage the updated vessel's position is always on your monitor. Secure and reliable algo...

E-CREWING become an authorized Liberian Filing Agent

First ever remotely operated trading vessel is put on trials in Copengagen

The Rolls Royce together with world's biggest tug operator Svitzer A/S launched the first ever comercial remotely operated vessel on June 20, 2017 in Copengagen.  From the quay side in Copenhagen harbour the vessel’s captain, stationed at the...

Bahamas flagged bulker St. Gregory ran aground in Greece

On the morning of June 7, on the southeastern coast of the Peloponnese, Greece, the bulk carrier St. Gregory, the Bahamas, ran aground. According to the Coast Guard of Greece, the ship, at the time of the accident there were 19 crew members, none of...

Wilhelmsen Ship Services launches drone delivery program

Development of drones' technologies as well as IoT slowly but surely leads to implementation of new logistic services into most spheres of our activity. This time the shipping industry which is traditionaly very conservative becoming a pion...

Double blast in Cartagena's shipyard

Colombian police are investigating explosions at two shipyards in Cartagena that killed at least six people and injured 22 others. The blasts occurred within about 30 minutes of each other Wednesday, at two industrial facilities that are at least si...

IMB's latest piracy report

Pirates and armed robbers attacked 43 ships and captured 58 seafarers in the first quarter of 2017, slightly more than the same period last year, according to the latest ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) piracy report. The global report highli...

New application of AHTS fleet invented in U.A.E.

According to The Guardian, UAE will be run out of ground water in the next 15 years  The major source of the fresh water in the area is mostly desalination, and average daily consumtion rate isabout 500 liters of water a day per p...

GasChem Beluga spotted in Tees Port, UK

GasChem Beluga, an innovating liquefied ethane carrier designed & operated by our core client Hartmann Reederei was spotted in Teesside on April 27. The 38.000 cbm LEG-carrier "GasChem Beluga", which features a length of 188.3 meters a...

Canary Islands ferry with 140 passengers hits into breakwater in terrifying accident

An out-of-control ferry with 140 passengers on board has been filmed smashing into a harbour wall. Thirteen people were injured in the incident last night as the ship left the port of Las Palmas in Gran Canaria, one of the Canary Islands, heading fo...