When the SARS virus broke out in the early 2000s, Asia-Pacific cruise operators were quick to move ships. Cruise Industry News said that the same scenario might be about to play out as a number of brands operating in the Chinese market were reacting to the outbreak of the Coronavirus in China....
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Turkey has said that it has been invited by Somalia to explore oil in Somalian waters from Somalia. The move follows reports that last year Turkey had signed a maritime delimitation agreement with Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA). Seismic studies have revealed that there could be...
Gard has appointed new correspondents for both P&I and hull matters in Copenhagen, Denmark, covering all Danish ports. IMOC Scandinavia ApS Randersgade 68, Copenhagen, DK-2100, Denmark Tel +452141056, Email [email protected], website www.imocgroup.com Jens Kristian Holm, Mobile +45 21 41 05 56, Email [email protected] Henrik Wenzel Kristoffersen, Mobile+45 6053 7636, Email [email protected] http://www.gard.no/web/news/article?p_document_id=29067398
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Navigators and General (N&G), which is owned by insurer Zurich, has bought NMU’s commercial marine trade combined book for an undisclosed sum. N&G said that the transaction brought a target risk appetite book of business to N&G and accelerated its growth in the marine insurance sector. The book of...
Marine insurer Gard has noted that a number of fatalities and serious injuries had occurred across the maritime industry due to parting of mooring lines. It has printed a loss prevention poster (First lines ashore! Do we understand the risk?) which highlights the fact that the first line ashore has...
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South Korea’s military has said it plans to expand the deployment of an anti-piracy unit now operating off the coast of Africa to the area around the Strait of Hormuz. South Korea had been debating the prospect. The decision to divert a navy unit already in operation southwest of the Arabian...
Eight crew members of chemical/oil products tanker Happy Lady (IMO 9644225) who were kidnapped off Nigeria on December 30th 2019 were released on January 22nd. All were reported safe and healthy. The Greek shipping ministry announced on Wednesday that the crew had been released after successful...
North of England has updated its list of ports which have restrictions on scrubbers. It noted that exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) – more commonly referred to as scrubbers – were an accepted equivalent measure in complying with the IMO 2020 global sulphur cap. However, ports around the world...
A seawater fire extinguishing system that had been installed as an additional safety precaution on passenger ship Ytterøyningen (IMO 9371531) could have contributed to escalating events that led to an explosion that struck the vessel on October 11th 2019. It followed an onboard fire the previous...
The P&I Clubs are beginning to offer advice on how Members should react to the recent outbreak of 2019-mCoV (coronoavirus) in Wuhan, China, which has now spread internationally. However, given the relatively early stage of the epidemic, any advice given has tended to be generic in nature, including...
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