Nine crewmembers of a fishing boat suffered injuries after a fire ignited and caused a gas cylinder to explode on board their vessel off the southern Indian city of Visakhapatnam on Friday, April 5. The locally-registered fishing vessel Durga Bhavani was in the Bay of Bengal 65 nautical miles off...
Belgium and the European Union haved signed the United Nations Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships, otherwise known as the Beijing Convention on the Judicial Sale of Ships, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) confirmed via a recent...
Taiwanese news outlets RTI and CNA report that two people were killed and another two have gone missing after a Chinese fishing vessel capsized and sank near Taiwan’s Kinmen Islands on Thursday, March 14. The vessel identified as Min Long Yu 61222 was approximately 1.1 nautical miles off Dongding...
Four people are confirmed dead after a fishing vessel capsized off the southern coast of South Korea on Saturday, March 9. The 29-tonne vessel identified as 2 Haesinho was approximately 68 kilometres south of the city of Tongyeong when it overturned on the morning (local time) of Saturday. Of the...
Vietnamese news outlets report that one person is confirmed dead while two others have gone missing after a fishing vessel and a locally-registered cargo ship collided with each other off Quang Ngai province in central Vietnam on Friday, February 23. An initial investigation stated that the fishing...
The Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) of Seattle, Washington, has entered into a strategic partnership with Anchorage, Alaska-based naval architecture and marine engineering firm Coastwise Corporation wherein the latter will become a new division under EBDG. Coastwise Corporation has been rebranded as Coastwise Engineering. This division will continue to provide superior naval architecture services to […]
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To ensure safer maritime journeys in Europe, the European Council presidency and the European Parliament’s negotiators have reached a provisional agreement to revise the 2009 directive on the investigation of accidents in the maritime transport sector. The new legislation forms part of the so-called “maritime safety” legislative package. The revised directive aims to simplify and […]
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The world of the environment is dominated by dramas and driven by hysterias. Inspired by our political and institutional (UN) masters, and guided by our proverbial generosity, we have fallen into the traps set by those interested in anything else but conserving wild species. In the mid-90s, we were...
Two people were killed after an oil tanker caught fire in the waters off Batangas province, Philippines, on Sunday, October 22. The incident occurred shortly after 09:00 local time on Sunday when a blaze ignited on the oil tanker Sea Horse while it was anchored one nautical mile from the Port of...
Three fishermen were killed after their boat capsized as a result of a collision with another vessel off Pangasinan province in the northern Philippines on Monday, October 2. Investigators from the Philippine Coast Guard said the locally-registered fishing vessel Dearyn was some 180 nautical miles...