Thousands of Scottish shipyard jobs are in the balance after it emerged that work to build two aircraft carriers may be delayed by the financial downturn. The contract for the 65,000-tonne vessels HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales was signed in July. Work was due to commence on the warships – the biggest [...]

The Indian navy has been given formal approval by the United Nations to go after pirate ships in Somali waters, the BBC has learnt. The UN approval authorises India to go in “hot pursuit” of pirates, naval sources told the BBC. On Tuesday, an Indian warship sank a suspected Somali pirate vessel after it opened [...]

A campaign to address the global shortage of seafarers, especially officers, which threatens the very future of the international shipping industry, has been launched by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in association with the International Labour Organization, the “Round Table” of shipping organizations – BIMCO, ICS/ISF, INTERCARGO and INTERTANKO – and the International Transport Workers’ [...]

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The newly elected president of InterManager, and president of major shipmanager V.Ships, and has started his period in office by urging shipowners to place training at the top of their manning agendas, despite having to deal with the effects of the credit crunch on the global shipping industry. Mr Giorgi said that the industry must [...]

A hijacked Saudi-owned supertanker carrying more than $100 million worth of crude oil is approaching Somali waters where it is expected to anchor so that negotiations can begin on the release of the vessel and its 25 crew, United States navy officials said Tuesday. The vessel, the 1,080-foot Sirius Star, is the largest ship ever [...]

The economy of the euro zone slipped into recession for the first time during the third quarter, the European Union’s statistics agency confirmed Friday, as the financial crisis continued to depress manufacturing activity and consumer demand. Gross domestic product declined 0.2 percent in the third quarter from the previous three months in both the euro [...]

An explosion on a chemical carrier has killed two sailors and contaminated waters in the nearby area in eastern China Zhejiang province Thursday morning. Loaded with 120 tonnes of carbon dioxide, the ship sank immediately after the explosion at a dedicated dock for a chemical factory in Tangqi Township, Yuhang District, in the provincial capital [...]

Growing numbers of shipowners are so concerned about the threat of piracy off the coast of Somalia that they are lengthening voyages by as much as three weeks to avoid the area. Svitzer, the world’s largest tug operator, last week became the first shipowner to admit publicly it was sending vessels that needed to move [...]

For nearly a year, six Chinese crew members on a ship that crashed into the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge — creating the bay’s worst oil spill in nearly 20 years — have been detained by federal authorities. The sailors are being held as material witnesses in the crash of the Cosco Busan. The men, including [...]