Built as the first purpose-designed Antarctic research ship, RRS Discovery is again helping push the frontiers of science – this time from a drydock in Dundee. John Monasta, associate director of maritime engineering consultancy Beckett Rankine, tells John Bensalhia about the restoration of a ship that once carried Scott and Shackleton
While undergoing maintenance in the Syros shipyard in Greece, the Equinox Seas bulk carrier was the scene of a deadly fall after a worker entered a taped off zone unaware of the hazards
While departing the Port of Singapore, Vox Maxima experienced a loss of electrical power, hit the stationary bunker tanker, Marine Honour, and leaked an estimated 400 tonnes of oil into the surrounding water.
There appears to be cautious enthusiasm for AI in the maritime sector, although over a third of respondents from a recent survey had directly experienced issues.
