The standard operating procedure for sign on of Indian seafarers issued in April will be applicable to sign on of foreign seafarers, India’s director general of shipping, Amitabh Kumar, said in a circular issued on Saturday November 21st. In July the Indian government agreed to let foreign...
German Federal Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has rejected Turkey’s criticism of the deployment of German soldiers to control the ‘Roseline A (IMO 9163984) because of suspected arms deliveries to Libya. “The Army soldiers behaved completely correctly. They did what is required of them...
Containership Containerships Arctic (IMO 9818400) collided with the Big South Lock in Brunsbüttel, Germany during the evening of November 23rd, the local police department in Itzehoe, Schleswig-Holstein, has said. Both the vessel and the lock structure were reported to have sustained considerable damage. An investigation into the allision has been launched. The police were reported…
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North of England Club’s local correspondent in Argentina, Buenos Aires-based Pandi Liquidadores, has updated on recent moves by Argentina in the area of hold and tank inspections. New procedures came into force in 2017 that allowed private certified survey companies to carry out pre-loading...
Video has emerged of the rescue of the crew on offshore supply tug Carmen (IMO 8502949), which developed a list, capsized and sank during the early hours of Friday November 20th. The vessel was on contract to Petrobras. It went down near the Albacora oil field in Brazil’s Campos Basin region while...
The Port Authority of Paleochora, Chania Prefecture, was informed during the afternoon of November 17th that general cargo ship Moliva (IMO 9454034), which was en route from Ashdod to Castellon, needed to approach port in order to medevac a 37-year-old crew member who had fallen ill. He was...
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The US Coast Guard was searching for four fishermen after the Emmy Rose’s (IMO 8854988) emergency position indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) went off about 20 miles northeast of Provincetown, Massachusetts early on Monday November 23rd. Searchers had so far located debris and an empty life raft. The...
Cayman Islands-headquartered reinsurer Greenlight Re has formed Greenlight Re UK to increase its presence in the London market and has hired marine treaty specialist Andrew Gladwin to lead the venture. Greenlight Re CEO Simon Burton said that “London market specialty business is now central to...
Turkey has protested both to Germany and to the EU after German forces belonging to an EU military mission boarded and tried to search Turkish cargo ship Roseline A (IMO 9163984),which they suspected of taking weapons to Libya. The German defence ministry said that soldiers from the frigate...
Further details have emerged of the incident reported in yesterday’s IMN in which a container ship grounded in the Singapore Strait. It has transpired that shortly before midnight on November 22nd container ship Tina 1 (IMO 9267156), which was sailing from the Pasir Panjang-Terminal in Singapore,...