MarineCraft News Desk 
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday and underscored the need to protect the freedom of navigation and commerce, and the safety and well-being of seafarers, India's foreign ministry said.The meeting took place…
Chevron CEO Mike Wirth said on Friday that oil buffers that limited crude price increases earlier in the Iran war have been depleted, and the conflict could lift prices further over the next few months.Since the war began in late…
U.S. officials have confirmed that Saudi Aramco's East-West Pipeline – the key bypass route carrying Gulf oil around the contested Strait of Hormuz – has been damaged in a Houthi strike.
A fixed firefighting system released into a space that is still being ventilated is fighting a fire that is still being fed. Dampers and closures are what make containment possible, and they are among the most consistently defective items on any ship. By MarineCraft Journal · 17 September 2026 · 9 mins read … Read more
Fire hoses have a maximum length as well as a minimum, nozzles must do two jobs, and every ship above 500 tons carries a brass flange that may never be used in its working life but has to be produced the moment an inspector asks for it. By MarineCraft Journal · 16 September … Read more
A lifebuoy is a ring that floats. The complication is that SOLAS does not treat them as interchangeable: it specifies which buoys carry lights, which carry smoke, which carry lifelines, and, crucially, which combinations are not allowed on the same buoy. By MarineCraft Journal · 15 September 2026 · 9 mins read Halfof … Read more
