The Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (Paris MoU) has launched an inspection campaign to verify compliance with the requirements of the Polar Code. The first period of the inspection campaign started on June 13th and will run to July 1st. The second period will run from August...
Holland America Line has its full fleet of 11 ships back in operation for the first time in more than two years, with the Westerdam becoming the final Holland America Line cruise ship to welcome guests again. It recommenced operations on June 12th. The Westerdam left Seattle, Washington for a...
Freeport LNG has said that its LNG liquefaction plant on the Gulf of Mexico Coast will not return to full operations until the end of 2022. The facility was hit by a fire last week. Partial operations were not expected to resume for about 90 days, the company said. That compares with an initial...
The South Korean military has been called in to drive tractor-trailer trucks in an effort to keep containers moving at South Korean ports after talks in a week-old lorry drivers’ strike broke down. The military, working in association with the South Korean Ministry of Transport, assigned members to...
Italian oil company Eni and Spain-based energy company Repsol could start shipping Venezuelan oil to Europe as soon as July five people familiar with the matter told Reuters, The move would see the resumption of oil-for-debt swaps, which stopped two years ago when the US intensified sanctions on...
The Lloyd’s syndicates have now published their results for 2021 and, in some cases, added detail and an outlook for 2022. Some have stuck to the bare bones. As last year, IMN is summarizing the results from all syndicates that have a marine interest, which have provided some information on the...
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/syndicate-results-2021-38-allied-world-2232/
Luxury yachts Eclipse (IMO 1009613) and My Solaris (IMO 9819820), which have been anchored in Turkish waters and which have been linked to sanctioned individual Roman Abramovich, were reported to have become subject to international legal action. The Eclipse had been resting near the southwestern...
Bulk carrier Alppila (IMO 9381706) has delivered 18,000 tons of Ukrainian corn to A Coruña in northern Spain, using a new maritime route via the Baltic Sea, that aims to avoid Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s ports on the Black Sea. The ship was due to be unloaded on June 14th. As of June 14th it…
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Legislation to increase oversight of ocean shipping was passed by the US House of Representatives on Monday June 13th and will now head for the desk of President Joe Biden, who has said that he was looking forward to signing it into law. Supporters of the bill, which passed by 369 to 42, claim that…
The US government was thought to be encouraging agricultural and shipping companies, in a quiet and low-key fashion, to buy and carry more Russian fertilizer, reports Bloomberg,citing unnamed people familiar with the efforts. The US move was part of complex and difficult negotiations underway...