Eighty people were safely rescued after a passenger ferry suffered water ingress in the Gulf of Trieste off Italy’s Adriatic coast on Wednesday, June 12. The incident on the vessel identified by the name Audace occurred in the eastern portion of the gulf at around midday (local time) on Wednesday....
The Norwegian Coast Guard’s third and last Jan Mayen-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV) was formally named in a ceremony at Vard’s Langsten facilities on Wednesday, June 12. The future NoCGV Hopen and its two earlier sisters, including class lead ship NoCGV Jan Mayen, will replace the coast guard’s...
Two people were killed while three others have been reported as missing after a fire ignited on a fishing boat off Cebu province in the central Philippines on Wednesday, June 5. The Philippine Coast Guard reported that the fishing vessel King Bryan was off the town of Naga when it the blaze ignited...
Canada’s Seaspan Shipyards recently unveiled design images of a new heavy polar icebreaker ordered by the Canadian Coast Guard. Seaspan said the functional design of the vessel is now more than 70 per cent complete and 3D modelling is well advanced. Cutting of the first steel is scheduled before...
Russia’s Vympel Shipyard, a division of state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation, has handed over four new response boats in a series to the country’s Ministry of Emergency Situations. The vessels all belong to the Project MS001 series designed by USC’s Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau. Eleven...
The US Department of Justice reports that two related companies that operated the motor tanker PS Dream – Prive Overseas Marine and Prive Shipping Denizcilik Ticaret – have pleaded guilty to conspiracy, knowingly violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS), and obstruction of justice...
The US Coast Guard has suspended its search for two mariners who went missing after a foreign-flagged cargo sailship sank approximately 20 miles (32 kilometres) north of Great Inagua in the Bahamas early last week. Rescue crews searched by air and sea for two of the crewmembers of the...
UAE defence technology firm the EDGE Group and Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri have entered into an agreement formalising the launch of MAESTRAL, an Abu Dhabi-based shipbuilding joint venture between the two companies. The joint venture, which was first announced in February of this year, will...
Three people have gone missing after a cargo vessel sank off the northern coast of Romania near the border with Ukraine on Saturday, May 18. The Tanzanian-flagged, Turkish-owned Mohammed Z was underway some 26 nautical miles off Sfantu Gheorghe when it sank in the early morning hours (local time)...
Negotiations over a “code of conduct” (COC) in the South China Sea between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China waxed and waned for two decades. Last July, in a bid to expedite an agreement, a three-year deadline was agreed to conclude the talks. Nothing comes easy in this...