The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN) were scheduled to go on nationwide strike on January 9th aiming to shut down all seaports, jetties, as well as oil and gas platforms across the country. Union President General, Comrade Adewale Adeyanju, said that there were inadequate staffing levels at...
The United Arab Emirates has added the Cameroon flag to its list of flag states which it now considers a matter for concern. Unless Cameroon-flagged ships are classed by a member of the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) or by Tasneef (the UAE classification society), they...
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy on Saturday revealed new military vessels in its fleet. The Navy took delivery of a new domestically designed-and-manufactured warship with radar-evading technology. The handover ceremony was held in public and attended by IRGC Navy Commander Alireza...
The Australian Maritime Safety Agency (AMSA) has banned LNG tanker CESI Qingdao (IMO 9672832) after an incident resulted in the vessel blocking Australia Pacific LNG for more than a week. The terminal is one of the country’s largest LNG export terminals and the incident disrupted the operations of...
Denmark’s Maersk and Germany’s Hapag-Lloyd have denied the signing of deals or making of verbal agreements with the Houthi militia to facilitate safe passage through the Red Sea of the shipping lines’ vessels. The denials followed a decline in the share prices of the two companies, following a...
Two crew members died and a third was injured after a fire broke out on 2,174 teu containership Stride (IMO 9149835) while it was moored in the Port of Houston. The port’s fire department responded to the fire, which broke out while the vessel was docked at the Barbours Cut Container Terminal. The...
CMA CGM announces the launch of Ceiba Express, a weekly direct service starting the middle of this month that connects Florida with Venezuela, Colombia, Honduras & Guatemala. Port rotation will be: Port Everglades – Kingston – La Guaira – Puerto Cabello – Cartagena – Puerto Cortes – Santo Tomas –...
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Hundreds of volunteers in the Spanish region of northwest Galicia were dealing with the aftermath of millions of plastic pellets that had washed up on the coast, setting off environmental concerns the volunteers used colanders and shovels to sift through the sandy beaches. Commonly referred to as...
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The Defence/Charterers & Traders claims team in our London office is looking to recruit a lawyer to fill a position with Gard’s Defence / Charterers & Traders Claims team to be based in its London office. Gard said that it was keeping an open mind on whether to recruit a senior or a junior lawyer….
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Gard’s Cindy Ko, Gard Senior Lawyer, Singapore, and Louis Shepherd, Gard Managing Director, Japan, plus Adam Świerczewski, Gard Senior Lawyer, London, have noted in an article that, as of January 1st 2024, vessels over 5,000 GT operating within EU waters had become subject to the EU’s Emission...