Although 109 containers went overboard from the ZIM Kingston (IMO 9389693) on October 21st off the Canadian province of British Columbia and the US state of Washington, only four thus far have washed up ashore. This means that two of the four containers with 57 tons of potassium amyl xanthate and...
As reported yesterday in IMN, general cargo ship Rise Shine (IMO 9164550), with containers on board, grounded in a storm off the Russian coast late on November 8th. The seriousness of the grounding necessitated a rescue operation by Russia’s Emergencies Ministry. The authorities reported that the...
Thai authorities said that they had salvaged 51 containers after a collision between a feeder vessel and a general cargo ship in Thailand’s Chao Phraya River (IMN, November 5th). Two feeder container ships, the O.P.K.3 (IMO 9092630) and NP Pathum Thani, collided during the afternoon of November 2nd...
Container ship Vega Scorpio (IMO 9491599) was intercepted by a Libyan patrol vessel in position when 16nm northwest of Ras el Hilal, and was detained for allegedly breaching the LNA ‘No Sail Zone’ during the morning of November 7th. The vessel, which was en route from Benghazi to Tobruk at the...
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Over-pressurization of vessel tanks when shore pipelines are cleared can cause physical distortion and even rupture of the tanks. Any overfilling of tanks during pipeline clearing can also result in pollution or personal injury when product escapes through the pressure vacuum valve, warns Robert Skaare, Arendal-based Senior Claims Executive at Gard. Skaare wrote that over…
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Cargo ship (with container capacity) Rise Shine (IMO 9164550) drifted aground and was reported to have broken in two during the morning of November 9th during stormy weather in Vostok Bay, west of Nakhodka, Russia, Japan sea. The ship issued a distress signal at 06:02 local time. It was understood...
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Businesses in the western Canadian province of British Columbia are facing a seasonal supply chain problem as a result of the loss of containers overboard from the ZIM Kingston (IMO 9389693), on October 21st. While “only” 109 containers fell overboard from the vessel in stormy weather, with a small...
The International Transport Intermediaries Club has warned brokers and agents that allowing complacency to creep into daily activities has the potential to cost them dearly. It noted a recent example concerning a shipbroker negotiating a short-term charter on behalf of their owner principal, for...
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The Steamship Mutual Extranet system was reported as unavailable yesterday, November 8th. Steamship Mutual apologized for any inconvenience caused during this period of unavailability. General cargo ship Arklow Flair (IMO 9361732) allided with the inner section of the outer pier in Workington Port,...
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Container ship MSC Shannon (IMO 8913423) sustained an engine room fire in the Gulf of Finland early on the morning of Sunday November 7th, disabling the vessel and prompting a large-scale emergency response. At about 02:00 Sunday local time the Finnish Coast Guard received a distress call from the...