The Maritime Industry Guide
On Thursday, December 19, singer Marc Anthony’s luxury yacht had caught fire and the 36.5-meter long boat was halfway submerged in Biscayne Bay, after which it required 45 firefighters to extinguish flames for around two hours.
For four years, Deacon Dileep Athaide has been a Catholic port chaplain to the thousands of seafarers who work on the container ships and tankers in Metro Vancouver ports.
Cruise ships are getting larger and the activities onboard more extreme. WSJ’s Scott McCartney visits a shipyard in Finland to see how the cruise operator Carnival is able to pack so much on a ship — including a rollercoaster — and still have it float.
On 21st December, evening the motor ship CDRY BLUE, a 108 m long merchant ship flying the Italian flag from Cagliari and heading for Alicante, ran aground on the south-west coast of Sardinia and more precisely in Torre Cannai Municipality of Sant’Antioco.
Watch two cruise ships of Carnival Corp colliding in the port of Mexico’s Island of Cozumel.
MOL and e5 Lab, which are working to develop and promote electrically powered zero-emission vessels, have concluded an MOU to conduct a joint study of a hybrid pure car carrier equipped with a hydrogen fuel cell system and large-capacity batteries.
The Bridge Operator was lucky he wasn’t inside the operator’s shack, as the 238-foot yacht ripped the shack clean off the bridge.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. announced its official naming and launch at Kobe Works of the SUISO FRONTIER (Kawasaki hull no. 1740), the world’s first liquefied hydrogen carrier.
A video of a small cargo vessel sinking at Lewobela Port, Lembata island, Banda sea, Indonesia has gone viral on youtube.