Royal Caribbean vessel Icon of the Seas is currently on its way to Grand Bahama shipyard for “unplanned repairs” after cancelling one of its itineraries in the Western Caribbean.

According to AIS data, the vessel is currently en route to St. Kitts &…

An outsize concern on ships is bulkhead penetrations – the need to route pipes and cables through bulkheads in such a way that create holes in the ship. These require special seals and fastenings on either side of the hole to prevent water ingress, a…

European shipping lines’ alliance with green methanol – and a number of associated retrofits – might have come to an end, with Hamburg-based OceanScore asserting that biofuel, specifically residual or ‘waste’ biofuel rather than crop or…

Villa Vie Residences, a cruise ship with a permanent community of people intending to live permanently on the vessel, has finally left Belfast after an impromptu repair at Harland & Wolff (H&W) put it out of action for four months.

The vessel had…