Environmental Resource Center offers in-depth training on regulations for marine & air transportation of hazardous materials.Businesses that are involved in the sea or air transportation of hazardous materials can help their workers keep…
Statutory Alert: Periodic servicing of free-fall lifeboat release systems – amendment to SOLAS regulation III/20.11.2.4.Applicability: Ships which have a free-fall lifeboat fitted. Lifeboats should be tested regularly to ensure they operate when needed and that crews know how to operate them…
International Transport Intermediaries Club (ITIC) has emphasised how avoidable errors can prove expensive for ship agents.In the latest issue of its Claims Review, ITIC recounts how a ship agent at a tidal port in Japan was asked to provide…
Norwegian training specialist Seagull AS has signed a licensing agreement with the International Shipping Federation (ISF), the global employers’ association for shipowners, which will allow Seagull to utilize electronic versions of the widely…
Ince & Co partner Jamila Khan has moved to the firm’s Piraeus office.Jamila has a broad practice covering all aspects of shipping and international trade and commodities disputes and commercial transactions. She has close links with…
An Action Plan adopted at recent IMO Forum in Suva, Fiji, to address safety concerning Pacific area dometic ferry operations.Recent losses of domestic ferries worldwide, including the sinking of the Rabaul Queen in Papua New Guinea in February 2012…
Public Hearings Scheduled to provide opportunities for public input. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has completed a draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS), providing updated environmental and socioeconomic analysis…
The Supreme Court of the Seychelles recently found 15 Somalis guilty of piracy and jailed them for up to 18 years.Judge Mohan Burhan rejected their defence that they were fishing and having fun as they fired rockets at a tanker in the Arabian…
European Union Naval Force Commander reminds yacht & leisure craft owners piracy still a danger in Gulf of Aden & Indian Ocean.Rear Admiral Potts who is the operation commander of the European Union’s counter piracy mission (EU NAVFOR) off…
Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS), a maritime services provider, is advising all crew, vessel owners, masters and operators to triple check passenger data before submitting Electronic Advanced Notice of Arrival (E-NOA) and Advance Passenger…
TF president Paddy Crumlin condemns those responsible for seizure of 'Fragata Libertad', an Argentine navy training ship, in Ghana.The detention of the ship was ordered on application to a court by Elliott Capital Management, which has bought…
Two shippers to use waiver to ship fuel to U.S. Northeast in the acute fuel shortage following the passage of Hurricane Sandy.Two companies have told the United States they intend to take advantage of a waiver allowing foreign-flagged ships to take oil products and additives from the U…
The ship 'Norgas Cathinka' remains detained in Indonesia following a September 2012 collision.In a statement, the operators, Singapore-based Norgas Carriers said that the ship, the Norgas Cathinka, was still carrying 3,045 metric tons of the highly flammable and explosive chemical propylene…
The owner of the missing freighter 'Amurskaya' has been arrested on suspicion of negligence leading to multiple deaths.The cargo ship Amurskaya was carrying a cargo of 700 tons of gold ore when it went missing near the Shantar Islands in the Sea of Okhotsk on October 28…
Crews should triple check Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) data to avoid US CBP penalties.Maritime services provider Inchcape Shipping Services (ISS) is advising all crew, vessel owners, masters and operators to triple check passenger…
