A Louisiana court has acquitted Captain Vjaceslavs Birzakovs, Master of the chemical/oil products tanker Ridgebury Alexandra Z (IMO 9439785), on all charges related to illegal discharges from the vessel. On May 23rd the jury in the Western District of Louisiana cleared the Master of six criminal...
Five of the 130 passengers on tourist ship River Countess were reported as injured as a result of the vessel being struck by cruise ships MSC Opera on Sunday morning June 2nd in the port of Venice. Four were tourists, aged between 67 and 72 years. Of these, an American woman was discharged after...
US District Court Judge Patricia Seitz ordered senior executives from global cruise operator Carnival Corp, including board chairman Micky Arison and CEO Arnold Donald, to appear in a court in Miami, Florida, on Monday June 3rd at 2 pm EDT for a probation revocation hearing for continued criminal...
Minnesota-based International Marine Underwriters, a unit of OneBeacon Insurance Group, has expanded its ocean cargo offering in order to address the needs of what it described as “an increasingly global ocean marine market”. The policy now includes an extended warehouse-to-warehouse time frame,...
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/one-beacon-unit-adds-to-ocean-cargo-coverage/
The salvage of containers that were lost by containership MSC Zoe (IMO 9703318) has ended after five months. Only 50 containers and their contents have not yet been found. One of the two ships, salvage vessel Friendship (IMO 7904827), berthed in the port of Terschelling on May 22nd. The other ship,...
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/salvage-of-msc-zoe-comes-to-an-end/
The US inland marine insurance segment has grown steadily in the past decade in tandem alongside increases in construction spending and the transport of goods, according to an AM Best special report entitled “Economic Growth and Specialization Bolstering Inland Marine Expansion”. Direct premiums written nearly doubled over the period, reaching $24.5bn in 2018, from $13.3bn…
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A week after a fire broke out on cargo ship KMTC Hongkong (IMO 9157753) at Laem Chabang Port, Thailand, it has been reported that not all cargo was correctly declared. It was further claimed by Deputy Transport Minister Pailin Chuchottaworn that some of the dangerous cargo was deliberately...
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/irregularities-reported-in-kmtc-hongkong-fire/
Passenger ship Galápagos Majestic (IMO 9695999) ran aground at the north coast of Santiago island in the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador, during the morning of May 31st, with 26 people on board. The hull was breached in the bow area and started to list to starboard side. Despite salvage attempts...
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/marine-accident-3rd-june-2019/
Cr uise ship MSC Opera (IMO 9250464) collided with berthed river cruise ship River Countess in Guidecca Canal, Venice on Sunday morning June 2nd, reportedly injuring at least four tourists on the River Countess. MSC Cruises said that the 2,679-passenger Opera, which is 54 metres high and 275 metres...
A crane accident in the US Coast Guard buoy yard in Homer, Alaska, which resulted in the death of Chief Warrant Officer Michael Kozloski on January 31st, was caused by an improper operation of the shoreside crane, the USCG has said in the result of a Major Incident Investigation, released on May...