April 7th, 20200Yet another gantry crane has been pulverised by a poorly berthed mega boxship. The Japanese controlled 13,900 teu , part of the Ocean Network Express (ONE) fleet, smashed into the quayside at Busan New Port on Monday, bringing down a crane onto the back end of the boxship into the process. Dramatic footage sent to Splash shows the...
April 6th, 20200Crew changes and ship deliveries in Japan just got a whole lot more challenging with the government issuing extraordinary travel bans on Friday covering 73 nations, including the Philippines. Filipinos make up close to three quarters of all crew on the Japanese merchant fleet, the world’s third largest shipowning nation. The...
April 3rd, 20201Japanese owner Nisshin Shipping has returned to Chinese yard Nantong Xiangyu Shipbuilding and Offshore Engineering for the construction of two 63,500 dwt ultramax bulkers. The latest order adds to Nisshin's existing large orderbook of 28 vessels at Nantong Xiangyu. Delivery of the latest two vessels is scheduled in June 2021....
March 31st, 20200Japanese owner Asahi Tanker has announced a plan to build the world's first two zero-emissions electric bunker tankers. The vessels are being designed by e5 Laboratories, a joint venture set up by Asahi Tanker with Exeno Yamamizu, MOL and Mitsubishi in August last year, to develop electrically powered ships and develop a platform to...
March 30th, 20200Imabari Shipbuilding and Japan Marine United (JMU), Japan's two largest shipbuilders, have given details of their new joint venture company. Nihon Shipyard Co will start operating on October 1 with Imabari holding a 51% stake and JMU 49%. It will handle all commercial ships excluding liquefied natural gas carriers. At a press...
March 27th, 20200Japan is currently exploring the possibilities to integrate 15 major shipyards in the country under a so-called All Japan Shipbuilding merger plan, following similar steps by neighbouring shipbuilding rival countries China and South Korea, local financial newswire Nikkei is reporting. The merger plan comes after Japan's largest two...
March 26th, 20200Belgian offshore marine engineering company DEME and Japanese marine contractor Penta-Ocean Construction have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on the construction of offshore wind farms in Japan. According to DEME, the development of offshore wind projects has gained considerable momentum throughout...
March 25th, 20200Two workers have died in a incident at an Imabari Shipbuilding yard in Japan yesterday. According to local reports, the two workers were found to have fallen into a cargo hold of a bulk carrier under construction at the yard. The shipyard called in an emergency medical rescue team but failed to save the lives of the two...
March 24th, 20200Singapore-based Unix Line, the primary shipmanagement arm of MOL Chemical Tankers, was fined $1.65m and placed on four years probation after pleading guilty last month in the US to a violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships. Unix Line admitted that its crewmembers onboard the 26,200 dwt tanker knowingly failed to record...
March 19th, 20200Japanese classification society ClassNK has announced the appointment of Hiroaki Sakashita, current senior executive vice president of ClassNK, as president and CEO as well as a representative director of the group. Sakashita has taken over the post from Koichi Fujiwara, who has been appointed as chairman of the board. Sakashita used...
