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16 Points to Consider While Taking in Clean Ballast

Clean ballast is taken at sea after thoroughly cleaning the dedicated cargo tanks.Before taking in clean ballast the slop tanks which contain the tank washings have to be carefully decanted...

12 Points To Be Kept In Mind While Sailing Onboard

Sailing is not an easy task, both for the old or new seafarers. Some people refer to themselves as the masters of the sea in sailing, but I don’t think it is 100% accurate. Can anyone truly...

Four missing in Serious fire on ultra-large container ship Maersk Honam

The ultra-large 330 mts Maersk containership of 15,262 TEU Maersk Honam headed from Singapore to Suez carrying 7,860 containers reported a serious fire in the vessel's hold at on Tuesday nea...