A ship is typically built for a 20-25 year lifespan and such is the pace of technical development in the marine industry that she is likely to become technically redundant quite early in her life. This has become even more of an issue in recent years, with substantial breakthroughs being made in fuel efficiency…
Alert 001/13: At 1130Z (UTC) on 05 Jan 2013 a merchant vessel reported an attack by pirates/1 skiff at position 0300N 05152E. The skiff had a white hull, 6 POB, fired small arms and RPG. This vessel managed to evade hijack. On 06 Jan 2013, the Pirate Activity Group (PAG) responsible for this attack…
Twelve months on from the Costa Concordia incident, a new Allianz report identifies that 106 ship losses were reported worldwide in the 12 months to November 25 2012 – up from 91 ships the previous year but a 27 percent decrease on the ten year average of 146 ships per annum. Despite this long term…
Double hull, as the name suggests, are tanker ship hulls with double layers of watertight hull surface. The inner and outer layers of the hull are on the bottom as well as the sides of the tanker ships. The double layer construction helps in reducing the risks of marine pollution during collision, grounding, and any…