Society of Master Mariners' Bangladesh Maritime professionals knowledge sharing

13 JUL 2018 Phil and Anthony Butler aren’t just father and son. The physics professor and bioengineering professor (respectively) are also business partners. And this week, their company, MARS Bioimaging, unveiled a first-of-its-kind X-ray scanner 10 years in the making. First, a quick recap of how X-ray imaging works. When X-rays travel through your …

13 july 2018 Technology group Wärtsilä has secured a landmark $200 million contract from a European container carrier for scrubber system retrofits, defying skeptics of exhaust treatment as a means of sulfur emissions compliance. In a statement, Wärtsilä said that it will deliver 50 MW, 60 MW and 70 MW …

12 JUL 2018 It’s not a great time to be having unprotected sex. Cases of syphilis are on the rise, there’s something called super-gonorrhea going around, and according to BASHH, there’s a new STI you can catch. What makes it even worse is that doctors have warned the new infection could become a …

11 July 2018  Captain John Loftus, an advocate for merchant marine safety, won a decision from the Administrative Review Board of the Department of Labor that sustained a $1.1 million judgment against a company that punished Loftus for reporting unsafe conditions aboard the company ships.   The decision, delivered on May …

11 july 2018 PHP Ship breaking and Recycling Industries of Bangladesh has bought its first vessel to be recycled in accordance with the Hong Kong Convention. PHP was the first Bangladeshi recycling facility to receive statement of compliance with the convention in October 2017. The statement was obtained from RINA.  …

11 JUL 2018 Finger pricks and daily insulin injections are currently the leading regimen for those with type 1 diabetes, a condition in which the body’s insulin producing cells beta cells are destroyed. And it’s not foolproof. Patients can often face risks over overcorrecting their blood sugar levels, which can …