A report of Malta’s Marine Safety Investigation Unit (MSIU) into the total loss of 220 gt commercial yacht Siempre has highlighted the need for crews to understand the risks posed by lithium-ion batteries on board. Three UK crew members and a Spanish stewardess escaped uninjured but had to jump...
A fire broke out on the upper deck of the ro/ro cargo ship Midnight Sun (IMO 9232278) at her homeport of Tacoma, Washington during the night of Thursday September 22nd. At about 19:20 local time the authorities received notice of a fire aboard the vessel. By the time fireboats and fire engines...
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The National Transportation Safety Board has said that the probable cause of the contact of bulk carrier Jalma Topic (IMO 9309655) with a stationary barge was a loss of steering due to the failure of an electrical solid-state relay on the servo control board of the operating control system to the...
A typhoon that developed rapidly overnight on Saturday/Sunday smashed into the main Philippines island of Luzon on Sunday September 25th. As it became clear that what had initially looked like a strong, but not uncommon storm, was going to develop into a typhoon and then into a super typhoon,...
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...
Hong Kong is reported to be preparing to scrap its tough Covid-19 hotel quarantine policy for all arrivals from early October, a ;local news portal reported late last week, citing unidentified sources. Hong Kong’s leader John Lee said last week he wanted to keep the city connected with the rest of...