Bulk carrier Pan Jasmine (IMO 9548328) was ordered to leave US waters after agriculture specialists of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the Port of New Orleans discovered invasive insects in the wood used to secure its previous cargo offloaded earlier in Mexico. The ship had arrived at...
Unless action is taken now taken to increase numbers, the world could face a shortage of merchant sailors within five years, raising risks for global supply chains, according to the Seafarer Workforce Report, published last week by Copenhagen-based owners’ association BIMCO and London-based...
Taiwan’s Maritime Port Bureau (MPB) has said that there have been only six cases of seafarer abandonment by foreign commercial vessel operators reported in Taiwan since 2018, of which only two remained unresolved. The MPB’s statement came after local media reported recently that cases of seafarer...
Israel has accused Iran of being responsible for an attack on an oil tanker in which two crew members – a British national and a Romanian citizen – were killed. Oil products tanker Mercer Street (IMO 9539585), operated by London-based Zodiac Maritime, was off Oman’s coast in the Arabian Sea when...
South African state-owned port and land transport logistics operator Transnet has said that operations at South African ports were now back to normal, with days after operations were brought to a virtual standstill as a result of a cyber-attack. “Transnet Port Terminals, in collaboration with the...
Offshore processing ship Höegh Esperanza (IMO 9780354) ran aground in Rio de la Plata fairway while approaching Buenos Aires at around 01:00 UTC on July 30th, late July 29th local time. The tanker was en route from Corpus Christi and was understood to be in load. The vessel was refloated during the...
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Two container terminals at the Port of Houston have reopened after a hardware failure had halted operations on Tuesday July 27th. Truck traffic and access to the port’s terminal operating system, N4, and its customer service portal, Lynx, were restored on Thursday. An update on Friday said that...
Six passengers on Royal Caribbean International cruise ship Adventure of the Seas (IMO 9167227) tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday July 29th six days into a week-long round-trip cruise from Nassau in the Bahamas. There were about 1,000 passengers and 900 crew members on board. Four of the...
The announcement by the UK government that it would no longer require visitors from the US and the EU (currently excluding France) to enter quarantine will be one factor in permitting international cruises to restart from England from August 2nd Domestic cruises have been allowed to run since May,...
PT Pelayaran Nasional Indonesia (Pelni) is preparing the MV/KM Umsini (IMO 8303264) to be the country’s first floating isolation centre for Covid-19 patients in Makassar, after a surge in infections in the capital of South Sulawesi Province. The Umsini will function as an isolation centre for...
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