The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) provided assistance to a drifting bulk carrier in the Coral Sea before tugs arrivedThe Hong Kong-flagged bulk carrier, ID Integrity advised AMSA’s Rescue Coordination Centre (RCC Australia) that…
UTEC Survey has announced deals worth $3 million.UTEC Survey operates from Houston, Aberdeen, Rio de Janeiro, Calgary, Perth, Singapore, St. John’s, Naples and Dubai and has just announced the two contracts which see the utilization of additional vessels in West Africa and the Arabian Gulf…
Russian cruiser sealed off from the sea to allow final demolition An excavation pier around the Russian warship Murmansk that took three years to build has now been sealed, and within weeks the contractor will start the final phase of demolishing the old battleship…
ZF donate to the 'Chauncy Maples' project which aims to bring health care to Lake Malawi's poor by renovating Africa's oldest motor shipMalawi in Central Africa is a quiet, peaceful country of immense beauty. However, it is one of the ten poorest nations in the world…
Tankship freight rates on the up as global oil trade pattern changesAccording to Bloomberg, the U.S. is importing the least in 13 years as China buys more than ever, lengthening voyages for tankers and effectively reducing the fleet’s capacity…
Ship managers sometimes victims of owners' bogus negligence claimsHard times have brought about an increase in bogus claims against ship managers by shipowners, warned the International Transport Intermediaries Club (ITIC) in its latest issue of 'Claims Review'…
'Panos Earth' has been anchored in South Africa's False Bay for 7 weeks without electrical power & the crew wants to go homeThe Panos Earth, 75,864 dwt bulk carrier needs $500 000 (R3.6 million) to repair her generators but squabbles with…
Operators Dynacom Tanker Management report their motor tanker 'Smyrni' hijacked by pirates in the Arabian SeaAt approximately 1115 UTC on 10 May, 2012, an oil tanker managed by Dynacom Tankers Management Ltd. was reported hijacked while it was transiting the Arabian Sea…
In New Delhi the Supreme Court bans the old Exxon Valdez from entry & scrapping until decontaminatedThe ship, now known as the 'Oriental Nicety,' entered Indian waters last week and was headed for Gujarat, when the Supreme Court gave its order…
Antarctica oil spill: a wrecked Brazilian ship 'Endless Sea', leaks oil, trapped in iceA wrecked Brazilian ship is trapped in ice and spilling fuel in Antarctica, with no hopes of containing the damage until the long South Pole winter eases next October according to a Huffington Post news report…
New U.S. Coastguard ship has rust patches, holes in the hullCapt. Charles Cashin, who commands the Coast Guard’s newest national security cutter, the Stratton, said he called in engineers last month when his crew discovered a trio of “pinholes”…
APL’s largest and newest vessel is also its most environmentally-friendly and fuel-efficient.The Singapore-based carrier says the 10,700-TEU APL Southampton, which called on the Port of Singapore on her maiden voyage today, has been fitted…
West African pirates off Lome, Togo, release tankship 'BW Rhine' after a week of pillaging oil product cargoPirates have freed a gasoline tanker they hijacked, after stealing some of the cargo, the shipowner reports, in a fresh example of…
The Supreme Court has granted permission for the 'Enrica Lexie' to leave Indian watersAgreeing that Italian ship Enrica Lexie is not the “object of crime”, the Supreme Court has allowed the detained vessel to leave Indian waters and continue…
Coast Guard responds to offshore drilling unit, tanker collision in Gulf of MexicoThe Coast Guard is responding to a collision between a mobile offshore drilling unit and a tanker vessel , near Port Aransas.Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector…
