Royal Caribbean International is to extend until June 21st 2021 its Singapore season for cruise ship Quantum Of The Seas (IMO 9549463) until June 21, 2021. The cruise line resumed sailing on the vessel in December 2020, offering Singapore residents only the prospect of short cruises to nowhere. The...
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US has sold more than 1m barrels of seized Iranian fuel
The US has sold more than 1m barrels of Iranian fuel that it seized under its sanctions programme last year, a US DOJ official has said In a new approach last year the administration of former US President Trump used civil forfeiture procedures to seize 1.2m barrels of gasoline which the US claimed...
LPG vessel hit by explosion on tank barge
An explosion devastated a tank barge which was berthed next to LPGC Grace V (IMO 8904989) which was under repair at the PT Barokah Perkasa Shipyard in Sambutan District, East Kalimantan, Indonesia on February 11th. The barge appeared to have caught fire, after which there was a significant...
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Michelin to use sailships to transport tires across the Atlantic
The Michelin Group has signed a deal with French startup NEOLINE to transport its tires across the Atlantic on sailing cargo ships. The partners expect to begin containerized tire shipments aboard NEOLINE’s wind-powered vessels on a pilot line from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Canada to...
Concern surrounds vessel in Colombian port
The Port Captaincy of Santa Marta, Colombia said that it had launched an investigation process into Mongolian-flagged oil products tanker Nissi Commander I (IMO 8705333). It said that 15 crew members had been affected by unsatisfactory conditions on board. The ship was given a maximum period of two...
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Solomon Islands investigates oil discharge
The Solomon Islands’ National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) is assessing an oil spill in Graciosa Bay in Temotu Province on Friday 5th February 2021. The deployment of the team followed reports of an oil spill from bulk carrier Quebec (IMO 9044425), which arrived on 20th January 2021....
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Sentences on five MSC Opera crew are commuted to fines
An Italian court’s sentencing of Captain Carmine Siviero of the MSC Opera (IMO 9250464) to five months in prison, along with two months sentences for the chief engineer and the chief electrician, and 10 days’ imprisonment for two other crew members, have been commuted into fines because of the...
Mozart crew released by pirates
The 15 Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates from container ship Mozart (IMO 9337274) last month in the Gulf of Guinea have been freed in Nigeria and will head home, Levent Karsan from Istanbul-based Boden Shipping said on Friday February 12th, only a couple of weeks after the attackers made contact...
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Hariga reopens after month-long strike
Libya’s easternmost port of Hariga has reopened after guards ended a month-long strike that had halted oil exports from the eastern terminal. Members of the Petroleum Facilities Guard went back to full-time working after getting paid, according to local reports. The strike had cut production by...
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Two men die in Canadian tugboat accident
Two men working on an as-yet unnamed tugboat in British Columbia, Canada were killed early on Thursday morning February 11th after the vessel capsized. A third worker was rescued and taken to a local hospital. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) responded to an emergency beacon signal received...
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