Twenty-one of the 80 migrants who had to be embarked to carry out the quarantine on board passenger ship Aurelia (IMO 4602120), which was docked at Augusta, Sicily, from August 25th to 28th, were charged with unmotivated and violent protests in an attempt to avoid a mandatory period of quarantine....
Salvors paused in their cutting of the Golden Ray into the final two segments (4 and 5) during the night of August 31st in order to replace the cutting chain. Crane barge VB 10,000 had pulled the chain through 800 cutting cycles, at which point T&T Salvage stopped work in order to replace the...
DHL Global Forwarding, Deutsche Post DHL Group’s air and ocean freight specialist, has said that its customers can decarbonize fully their ocean transports by choosing sustainable marine fuels for both less-than-container load (LCL) shipments and full container load (FCL) shipments. The GoGreen...
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/dhl-allows-customers-to-fully-decarbonize/
The US Coast Guard said on Wednesday September 1st that was responding to a drillship that reportedly sustained damage in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of Hurricane Ida The USCG said it was notified during the storm that the ultra-deepwater drillship Noble Globetrotter II (IMO 9600786) had been...
Back in August IMN reported on the case of a vessel, general cargo ship Tan Binh 127 (IMO 9240043), from which 18 crew were rescued by container ship MCC Chittagong (IMO 9761023) Now the eventual fate of the Vietnamese bulk carrier, which had 11,000 tons of steel coil on board that would have been...
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/whatever-happened-to-the-tan-binh-127/
The marine insurance sector does not have the luxury of being able to stand still, according to Richard Turner, in his speech opening this year’s International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) annual conference, being held online from Seoul. Turner said in his presentation of this year’s conference...
An environmental impact assessment for the shipping industry released by two European agencies has shown clearly the challenge faced by the IMO and its members if its goal of climate neutrality by 2050 were to be met. EMTER (European Maritime Transport Environmental Report) is the first up-to-date...
The damage to Louisiana’s power grid from Hurricane Ida has been so great that the US Coast Guard has joined the task of assessing the wreckage. More than a million homes and businesses along the US Gulf Coast remained without power following the landfall of Ida at the beginning of the week. The...
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/us-coast-guard-assesses-damage-from-ida/
Container ship Zim Yokohama (IMO 9322346) reported an outbreak of Covid-19 amongst its crew members. After the positive cases were announced a couple of weeks ago the ship and its crew members were anchored on the outskirts of Chebucto Head in Nova Scotia, Canada. The ship was not being allowed to...
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/marine-accident-round-up-5th-september-2021/
Roel Honders (Head, air pollution and energy efficiency, marine environment division, IMO, UK-London), observed that the climate emergency was at the front of everybody’s mind. He observed that IMO had been working since 2011 on regulatory action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Paris Accord...