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Piracy Update 2016

Credit: United Nations While piracy on the high seas continues to fall across most of the globe, International Maritime Bureau (IMB) Piracy Reporting Center is highlight growing threat of violent attacks in the Gulf of Guinea off the west coast of Africa, where 44 seafarers have been captured so far this year. Worldwide, just 37 piracy […]

Containerisation celebrates 60th birthday

Containerised shipping has turned 60, after the first seaborne container was transported on board Malcolm McLean’s Ideal-X on April 26, 1956. The man credited with being container shipping’s true pioneer was Malcolm McLean, a trucking magnate, who used a converted tanker to move the first containerised cargo by sea 60 years ago from New Jersey […]

VGM Infographic

The amendments to the SOLAS convention edge closer to their implementation date of the 1st July 2016.  The shipping industry is in information mode, collating and soaking up all the details they can on how to carry out the methods that are required to obtain the Verified Gross Mass (VGM). The VGM of a container […]

U.S. Customs Discoveries

It’s been a while since we have posted on the team at U.S. Customs and their recent discoveries.  Much like our hard working officers on the Australia Border Force (ABF) the team at U.S. Customs and Border Protection serve the public every day, ensuring that their borders are safe and taken care of. Collated below […]

Are mega-ships at risk?

Maps of Mars are better than those of Earth’s oceans, placing mega ships at risk. The grounding of a mega ship could result in a cargo loss of up to US$4 billion, the insurance industry warns. It’s a possibility that cannot be ruled out as the world has better maps of the surface of Mars […]

Maersk Line 3D printing

When you’re on the middle of the ocean, traveling at 23 knots and a part breaks, what do you do? If you are on a vessel that’s part of a Maersk fleet, you would just print it out! Maersk Line have revealed that their vessels have been kitted out with 3D printers just for these […]

Drone ships – “This is happening”

Rolls-Royce’s Advanced Autonomous Waterborne Applications Initiative (AAWA) project has unveiled its vision for how remote and autonomous drone ships will become a reality. The project’s first year findings were presented at a conference at Helsinki’s Finlandia Hall last week. “Autonomous shipping is the future of the maritime industry. As disruptive as the smart phone, the […]

Top twenty cargo airports in 2015

According to Airports Council International, total cargo handled (loaded and unloaded freight and mail) by airports worldwide in 2015 was up 2.4% over 2014 to about 103 million tonnes. International freight handled was up 2.2% to 63 million tonnes, accounting for a little more than 61% of the total volume. That’s a lot of cargo. […]

Two kidnapped from container ship

Another brazen attack off Nigeria as pirates board and kidnap two crew members from a containership underway. The incident occurred on the same day that pirates kidnapped six crew members from the tanker “Puli” more than 100 miles from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The ship has been identified as the Liberian-flagged CMA CGM Turquoise, a 4,360 […]