![[VIDEO] Tourist Ferry with 1,000 Onboard Evacuated After FIRE Breaks Out](https://www.maritimemanual.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/eleftherios-venizelos-ferry-fire-768x544.jpg "[VIDEO] Tourist Ferry with 1,000 Onboard Evacuated After FIRE Breaks Out 1")
The boat, carrying 1,016 people, was traveling from the port of Piraeus near Athens to Chania on the island of Crete when the fire started. 875 passengers and 141 crew were onboard as the ship, The Eleftherios Venizelos, went past the island of Hydra. A car parking compartment had caught fire around midnight local time…
India and France will commence the project of launching a constellation of maritime surveillance satellites by next year, an official of the French Space agency said. “The satellites will be designed to cover areas ranging from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean and parts of the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, keeping in…
Seadrill has selected Kongsberg Maritime to deliver real-time monitoring systems that will enhance operability in the shallow water harsh environment operations planned for the West Hercules and West Phoenix semi-submersibles. The technology will enable more integrated and remote operations, enabling migration of expertise fromoffshore to onshore facilities by digitalising assets, personnel workflows and processes, and…
Odfjell Drilling has awarded Kongsberg Maritime the contract to deliver a real-time monitoring and advisory solution to provide operational safety and non-productive time (NPT) improvements for the 6th generation semi-submersible, Deepsea Stavanger. The contract is in specific relation to an upcoming offshore South Africa campaign awarded to Odfjell Drilling. Also read: Oil Driller as a…
Cruise company P&O Cruises Australia has announced that it will bid farewell to Pacific Jewel as part of the commitment to refresh its fleet. Pacific Jewel’s final journey with P&O will be on February 24, 2019, before being transferred to a new company. A second Princess Cruises’ Grand Class ship will join the fleet to…
The construction of the Chilean Navy’s new polar ship has started officially at the ASMAR Talcahuano Shipyard. ASMAR, Chile’s state-owned company, had to ramp up its infrastructure just for this ambitious project. A 150-ton gantry crane has been incorporated launching pad to increase lifting capacity. Along with it, a 230-ton carriage has been brought in…
FUELSAVE will unveil a containerized version of its revolutionary FS MARINE+ technology during the SMM 2018 trade fair, taking place during the first week of September, in Hamburg Germany. The FS MARINE+ Container has been designed to provide ship operators with a more cost-effective, plug-in-and-play version of its engine combustion optimization and emissions abatement system….
Norway’s maritime technology group Kongsberg Maritime has been awarded contracts by China’s Nanjing Jinling Shipyard to deliver power and hybrid systems to nine roll-on/roll-off vessels (RoRo vessels) ordered by Italian Grimaldi Group. The contracts are valued at more than NOK 400 million (USD 47.04 million). The contract scope includes the delivery of supply and integration…
The container, processed with the revolutionary new blockchain-based CargoX Smart Bill of Lading™, has been released successfully in the Port of Koper, Slovenia (EU), where it arrived on Sunday, 19 August 2018, completing its journey from Shanghai (China) aboard the cargo ship Ever Safety, and was shipped by one of the world’s largest freight forwarders….
The sinking of the 29-meter tour boat M/V Phoenix off Phuket on July 5th this year with the loss of 47 tourist lives, including 13 children, was the worst man-made maritime disaster in Thailand for many decades. There are all too frequent collisions, fire onboard incidents, speedboat accidents, and tour boat sinking and in many,…
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