Cargo owners Adriaanse Import & Export, JDM Food Group, Rewe-Zentral, TFC Holland and their insurers, US-based AIG and Germany-based Allianz, are suing the ship’s owner, Japan-based Shoei Kisen Kaisha, in a London court over the six-day grounding of giant container ship Ever Given in the southern...
A fight broke out between passengers aboard the cruise ship Carnival Sunrise (IMO 9138850) on September 9th as the vessel was returning from a Caribbean cruise. The fight reportedly began between just two people after one claimed that the other had stolen their chair at the Tides Bar, which is...
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Water levels fell again on the River Rhine in Germany last week, indicating that the respite provided in early September as the rains reappeared was only temporary. That said, by the end of las week on September 23rd the levels remained significantly higher than they were at during lows earlier in...
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Greenpeace activists have staged a protest at Tornio, Finland, that aimed to highlight shipments from Russia’s Vysotsk LNG project — a joint venture between Russia’s largest independent gas producer Novatek and the country’s leading financial institution, Gazprombank. On September 18th activists...
China-based correspondent Huatai Marine said that it had recently received enquiries from International group Clubs about administrative fines faced by their members for dumping food wastes in Chinese waters. Huatai Marine said that it had been requested to provide relevant regulations and...
Crude oil tanker Alexia (IMO 9389966) caught fire at around during the morning of September 22nd in the Gulf of Finland while en route from Ust Luga Russia to Turkey, apparently in load. According to the Finnish and Estonian SAR Command Centres the fire was extinguished and nobody was injured....
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Shipowners’ Club has reported a combined ratio of 96.2% for the first half of 2022, “in line with budget”. An underwriting gain of a $4.3m was the result of an 8% growth in earned income compared to same period last year and a 2% reduction in overall claims costs. Shipowners Club financial year...
The summer months of 2022 have seen a “slow-motion collapse” in freight rates for both Dry Bulk Carriers and Containerships, according to Using VesselsValue data, Vivek Srivastava, Senior Trade Flow Analyst at VesselsValue. For bulk carriers the Capesize 54-TCA Index fell from $38,169 per day on...
On September 19th the EU further amended its FAQS on sanctions against Russia, and in so doing provided a little more clarity on the application of provisions relating to the carriage of certain cargoes from Russia, including coal and other solid fossil fuels, as well as certain types of...
At least one and possibly two uncrewed surface vessels have washed up on a rocky shoreline outside the Russian Navy stronghold of Sevastopol, Crimea. Photographs of the apparently improvised black craft showed that it was fitted with an electro-optical camera, a laser rangefinder, and two steel...
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