29th March 2018 BP has published its Annual Report and Accounts for 2017, highlighting that group Chief Executive Bob Dudley accepted a pay cut. Dudley’s pay was cut by 24 percent to $13.4 million despite 2017 being one of the best years in BP’s recent history. For the three-year period …

27th March 2018 Offshore support vessel scrapping rates have jumped by over 150 percent, with Tidewater topping the list of companies offloading vessels by selling 13 vessels for scrap so far in 2018. “In this current period of downturn, critics of offshore ship owners say they have been guilty of …

27 MAR 2018 The sound of people chewing, slurping, tapping, or humming can drive some people into a rage, and scientists have actually discovered the neurological wiring responsible for this strange condition. Called misophonia, it describes the unreasonable emotions that well up inside some of us when we hear certain repetitive …

The U.S. Maritime Administration issued U.S. Maritime Alert 2018-004 A “Possible GPS Interference – Eastern Mediterranean Sea” on March 23 in response to reports of GPS disruptions and interference from multiple vessels and aircraft between Cyprus and Port Said, Egypt. These reports come on the heels of multiple warnings by …

If you spot red in the toilet after relieving yourself, you may want to call a doctor. Red urine could be a sign that there’s blood in your pee, or that you have a urinary tract infection, prostate problems, kidney disease, a tumor, or some other condition. But if you …

South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries reports that the Stellar Eagle, a tanker-to-ore carrier conversion belonging to Polaris Shipping, was found to have 22 “unauthorized modifications” during an inspection at Rizhao, China. Polaris has been ordered to send the Eagle to a shipyard to correct the unsanctioned work. It is not the Eagle’s only recent run-in …

27 MAR 2018 Boiling an egg to perfection sounds like the simplest cooking task in the world, but as anyone who’s boiled an egg knows, you can get surprisingly mixed results. That’s probably because you’re not taking into account all the variables. But if you want the perfect boiled egg …

26th Mar 2018 The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) says that governments must compromise to help the IMO agree a strategy for the further reduction of CO2 emissions by shipping that will match the expectations of the Paris Agreement on climate change. The call comes ahead of critical meetings at …