A cargo fire that broke out on the 6,552 teu container ship CMA CGM Rabelais (IMO 9406635) on August 3rd was soon brought under control. One crew member was injured, but was not in any danger, the owner Danaos Corp said. The crew member was understood to have been injured during firefighting...
Containers started moving again early last week through the Northern California Port of Oakland after independent truck drivers ended the protests that had virtually shut down the port for almost a week Officials at the private operators of Oakland’s shipping terminals said they were clearing...
Two more ships, carrying corn and soybeans, left Ukrainian Black Sea ports on Monday August 8th, taking to 10 the total since the first ship sailed last week. Bulk carrier Sacura (IMO 9497000), which departed from Pivdennyi (Yuzhne), is carrying 11,000 tons of soybeans to Italy, while the Arizona...
Australian Border Force (ABF) officers seized 700 kilos of cocaine from a container aboard Maersk container ship Maersk Inverness (IMO 9348156) on July 22nd. The drugs were discovered in 28 denim bags inside a shipping container marked as “wood products” on the manifest aboard the vessel. The...
The Romanian Black Sea port of Constanta has asked for EU funds and government loan guarantees as part of a plan to facilitate a more significant contribution to the export of grain from Ukraine. In July the Romanian government said that it was considering a pilot programme to buy equipment that...
Given the recent headlines describing a serious global shortage of grain, it might come as something of a surprise to read that traders were offering discounted grain, but international and local traders started to offer more Ukrainian-origin grain for sale on Friday August 5th, at a discount....
Bulk carrier Philipp Oldendorff (IMO 9540869) drifted onto anchored bulk carrier SSI Providence (IMO 9883065) at Ahirkapi Anchorage, Istanbul, during the evening of August 5th. The SSI Providence was receiving supplies at the time. The Philipp Oldendorff had arrived from Kerch Strait Russia,...
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MS Amlin’s fell to a loss of £93m in Q1 of its financial year, from of £49m in Q1 2021, as group profits at parent MS&AD shrunk by 49% to ¥60bn. The carrier attributed the losses at MS Amlin to the impact of claims relating to Russia and Ukraine as well as a negative investment…
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Four vessels sailed from the Black Sea ports of Chornomorsk and Odesa on Sunday August 7th as the results of a deal to unblock the country’s sea exports begin to gear up. The four bulk carriers were loaded with almost 170,000 tonnes of corn and other foodstuffs, Ukraine’s sea ports authority said....
Freeport LNG will be allowed by the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to resume some operations in October. Freeport LNG in Quintana, Texas is the second-largest US liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter Freeport LNG shut the plant, which supplies about 20% of U.S. LNG...