Cargo ship Eurocargo Trieste (IMO 9131515) was seized in Livorno on November 23rd following an inspection by technicians of the Harbour Office. They had boarded the ferry to investigate the possible causes of the fire that developed in the engine room. By the end of the inspection various anomalies...
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Authorities in Germany have imposed a record fine on a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker for breaching an open-loop scrubber ban in the Port of Hamburg. On November 18th the local water police conducted a routine check of an unnamed vessel. It said that as a result, the ship had been fined €50,000...
A UK court has convicted four Nigerian and Liberian stowaways of affray for throwing faecal matter and threatening the crew of the Grimaldi con/ro Grande Tema last year. They were acquitted of attempted hijacking. Samuel Jolumi, 27, Ishola Sunday, 28, Toheeb Popoola, 27, and Joberto McGee, 20 were...
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The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that the probable cause of the overturning of liftboat Ram XVIII (IMO 9769453) on November 18th 2018 in the Gulf of Mexico about 15 miles south-southeast of Grand Isle, Louisiana, was an industry practice of not regularly providing...
Solicitor MFB has written on the practical issues arising from the BIMCO 2020 fuel transition clause for time charter parties. It noted a Reuters report that, although the new IMO 2020 low-sulphur fuel regulation would not come into effect until January 1st, there were already a large number of...
P&I Club Steamship Mutual has noted that a recent case in which cargo was delivered against fraudulent Bills of Lading illustrated the risks of agreeing charter party clauses that obliged an owner to discharge and deliver cargo without presentation of the bill of lading, against a charterer’s...
Two ex-directors of Australian livestock-shipping company Emanuel Exports, Graham Daws and Michael Stanton, pleaded not guilty to animal cruelty charges on Friday November 15th. The charges against the pair were brought by Western Australia’s Department of Primary Industries and Regional...
In the latest TT Talk, TT Club has highlighted a recent piece of case law from the NSW Court of Appeal in Australia. The Club said that this case acted as a reminder to freight forwarders to consider carefully the question of ‘whether to issue a house bill of lading’ for a consignment. The Club…
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The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has said that the probable cause of the contact between cruise vessel Carnival Horizon (IMO 9767091) and Pier 90 was ineffective interaction and communication between the master and the docking pilot, who were manoeuvring the vessel, and the bridge team’s ineffective oversight of the docking manoeuvre. Contributing to…
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Passenger/cargo RoRo Red Falcon (IMO 9064047) struck a small pleasure boat that had four people on board on September 29th 2018, because its captain failed to keep a proper lookout, a court was told on November 18th. The incident occurred as the Red Falcon was crossing the Solent from Southampton...