There was no risk of pollution as a result of the fire which broke out on chemical/oil products tanker Greta K on March 21st, just a couple of miles off the coast of northern Portugal. Genoa, Italy-based manager K-Ships said that the fire was limited to the engine room and funnel. It praised its...
Ransomware hackers have published proprietary inside data allegedly obtained Netherlands-based shipping intelligence agency Royal Dirkzwager, according to Security Week. The published information apparently comprised employee passport details, contracts and other sensitive information. The blackmailers claimed to have more data that was yet to be released, the report claimed. The Play ransomware group attacked the Dirkzwager…
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The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) was forced to close the port to large ships because of a strike announced by Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft (United Services Union aka ver.di), the HPA said on Wednesday March 22nd. “Due to the massive restrictions to be expected from the announced warning...
Thomas Macey-Dare KC of Quadrant Chambers has reported on London Arbitration 2/23, (2023) 1129 LMLN 2 – a charterparty dispute in which the arbitral tribunal rejected the Owners’ claim for damages for breach of the safe port warranty in a time charterparty. The claim followed an incident during...
Alexey Karchiomov, Head of International Trade and Customs, Maritime Shipping and Transport Law Practices at EPAM Law Offices has named several alternatives for Russian companies and shipowners seeking foreign insurance and reinsurance. He noted that the Eurasian Reinsurance Company was scheduled...
The four flags singled out by the International Federation of Transport Workers (ITF) for targeted inspections in the Mediterranean have denounced the accusations made by the ITF as false. They said that they were not representative of the efforts undertaken by the flags. Two of the flags are...
Crude oil exports and transit of Urals, KEBCO and Siberian Light oil grades from Russia’s western ports were expected to rise 9% in March compared with February, reported Reuters, citing data from trade sources. Russia’s oil exports from its western ports, excluding Kazakhstan-sourced oil in...
Livestock carrier Yangtze Fortune (IMO 9336282), which had been detained and anchored off the Australian port of Portland, Victoria, has been sold and released from arrest. An Admiralty Marshal of the Australian Federal Court arrested the Liberian-flagged ship in December last year for outstanding...
Norway led all Arctic coastal states in terms of shipping traffic increase over the past decade, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The NOAA report, published annually, showed that the ship counts along the coastal waters above the Arctic Circle and around the...
At least 25 people were reported as injured after a research vessel once owned by Microsoft’s late co-founder Paul Allen tipped over at an Edinburgh dockyard. The Scottish Ambulance Service said that 15 people had been taken to hospital, while 10 people were treated at the scene of the incident at...