The National Transportation Safety Board has issued its report on a deadly engine room fire that broke out Jan. 8, 2024, when the Danaos-operated containership Stride was bunkering while docked at the Barbours Cut Marine Terminal in LaPorte, Texas.
The fire self-extinguished after crewmembers shut down all ventilation to the engine room. Two crewmembers died as a result of the fire and one was seriously injured. The 1997-built Stride was declared a total loss valued at $12 million and was...
Philly Shipyard Inc. yesterday held a steel cutting ceremony to mark the start of construction on the first of three 3,600 TEU Aloha class LNG-fueled containerships to be built for Honolulu-headquartered Matson Navigation Company Inc.
Representatives from Philly Shipyard and Matson gathered for short remarks before Regis Burkhardt, Matson site team manager, pushed the button of the shipyard’s state of the art plasma cutter to officially begin production.
“Today we celebrate not only the beginning...
One of the world’s busiest ports, China’s Port of Ningbo was has been rocked by a massive explosion that sent a huge fire ball into the air.
The Chinese Government run Global Times newspaper reports that the explosion occurred in a container aboard the 6,589 TEU containership YM Mobility at 3.45 p.m.
The Ningbo Maritime Search and Rescue Center activated an emergency response plan and dispatched a maritime patrol vessel to the scene to enforce security measures. It also sent three firefighting...
The U.S. Coast Guard has lifted the detention order imposed on the containership MSC Michigan VII following the June 6 incident in which a power surge caused it to surge forwards as it was departing North Charleston, S.C. That led to fears that the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge over the Cooper River could suffer a fate similar to that of Baltimore’s Key Bridge.
VIDEO: Charleston Harbor Pilots avert potential box ship strike on bridge
Yesterday, the Coast Guard Sector Charleston Captain of the Port...
First Citizens Bank reports that its maritime finance business has provided a senior secured loan of $22 million to Euroseas Ltd. for the financing for a newbuild 2,800 TEU Eco containership.
Formed in 2005, Euroseas [Nasdaq: ESEA] is an owner and operator of container carrier vessels and provider of seaborne transportation for containerized cargoes. The company has a fleet of 22 vessels, including 15 feeder containerships and seven intermediate containerships. Euroseas’ 22 containerships have a...
ABS has published a new notation that enables containership operators to load an additional tier of containers on deck with reduced risk of loss due to parametric rolling. Called
CLP-V(PARR), it combines the ABS Computer Lashing Program notation with mandatory parametric roll guidance to allow operators to optimize stowage and lashing of containers without loss of safety margin.
“Optimizing container loading is key to efficient vessel operations but also has a foundational impact on safety,...
The skill of Charleston Harbor Pilots may well have saved the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge over the Cooper River from potentially suffering the same sort of fate as Baltimore’s Key Bridge.
The incident began yesterday when Coast Guard Sector Charleston command center watchstanders received a report at 12:17 p.m. from the Charleston Harbor Pilots dispatch of a containership, the MSC Michigan VII, experiencing a malfunction with the systems controlling its propulsion on the Cooper River while...
https://www.marinelog.com/news/charleston-harbor-pilots-avert-potential-box-ship-strike-on-bridge/
A design for an ammonia-fueled containership has been awarded Approval in Principle by classification societies ABS and Lloyd’s Register (LR). The design has been developed by a cross-industry task force led by the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping and whose other members include A. P. Møller-Mærsk, MAN Energy Solutions, Deltamarin, Eltronic FuelTech, and the two classification societies.
The design outlines a commercially viable and safe ammonia-fueled 3,500 TEU container...
The National Transportation Safety Board has issued its report on an August 2022 incident in which the 681 foot, 1,992 TEU Matson Navigation containership Maunalei incurred $3 million in damages after a propeller blade cracked, leading to a loss of hydraulic oil and propulsion while transiting the Pacific Ocean.
The NTSB investigation found that a blade on the vessel’s controllable pitch propeller system did not meet manufacturer design specifications.
The Maunalei was traveling to Portland,...
Officials of the Key Bridge Unified Command were yesterday continuing to evaluate the Dali in preparation for refloating the vessel and clearing the Fort McHenry Federal Channel to the Port of Baltimore.
Since explosive cuts brought down most of the bridge structure that had been pinning the Dali down, the scene around the vessel looks a lot less chaotic. However, there is still a lot of clearance to be done prior to the Dali refloat.
Unified Command officials have evaluated sonar and lidar...