China COSCO Shipping starts controversial cruise business
The world’s largest shipping company has branched out into a potentially controversial cruise business. China COSCO Shipping will launch cruise trips in the South China Sea next month, with the first...
View ArticleChinese ship repair yard to enter cruise construction business
Chinese company Beibu Gulf Tourism has entered into agreements with Shanghai Zhaoxiang Cruise Technology Group and Shanghai Huarun Dadong Dockyard for the development a luxury cruise ship. Beibu Gulf...
View ArticleCruiseship breaks from its moorings and hits cement carrier in NZ
Investigators are on the scene to try and work out how a cruiseship broke its moorings in New Zealand yesterday and then proceeded to slam into a cement carrier, causing significant damages. The...
View ArticleWhy are third officers being paid less than coffee shop workers?
I recently came across a job advert for a third officer by one of the UK’s major maritime industry recruiters, Faststream Recruitment. The advert offers the successful candidate “the opportunity to...
View ArticleUAE suspends all cruise ship operations
The Federal Transport Authority of the United Arab Emirates has decided to suspend all cruise operations at the country’s ports as part of precautionary measures to prevent the spreading of...
View ArticleCrews ships to the rescue
Container shipping consultant Andy Lane suggests out of work cruise ships could solve certain parts of the crew change crisis. Another day and the full expectation that industry media readership will...
View ArticleWhy we ought to be looking at nuclear power
Dr Paul Read, managing director of naval architects and marine engineers Gelen Marine, and newbuild project manager for new cruise firm, Storylines, writes for Splash on the possibility of using atomic...
View ArticleMSC invests in sustainable shipping data provider
Cruise and container giant Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has invested in Madeira-based Green Maré Services (GMS) as part of its ongoing sustainability drive. MSC has also decided to use the Ship...
View ArticleAdvice to merchant shipping from the men behind the cruise sector’s first...
Battery and hydrogen fuel cell technology exist today to take merchant shipping to zero emissions, it just needs the hand of government, charterers and some pioneering shipowners to make it happen....
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