Plans from the Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) to update UK law around rules governing the fire safety and protection of vessels are going out to public consultation The new regulations will implement updated international rules on fire protection, fire detection and fire extinction. This...
A No Sail Order was issued for cruise ship Margaritaville at Sea Paradise (IMO 8716502), which was docked at the port of Palm Beach and was supposed to head to the Bahamas on July 13th. The ship remained docked in Riviera Beach on July 14th. As of July 19th the vessel had been released and…
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WK Webster said on July 11th that it had received reports that bulk carrier Kharis Trinity (IMO 9470313) experienced a collapse of machinery loaded on deck whilst in a position west of Thalassery, India on July 7th. It was reported that the vessel later berthed at Kochi, India for inspection and...
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WK Webster reports that Cargo ship Darya Shanti (IMO 9711145), which was left not under command on July 8th in the North Pacific west of the Queen Charlotte Islands, was taken under tow by tug towards Prince Rupert Port. The ship was en route from Prince Rupert to Gwangyang, South Korea. The ship...
Container ship APL Vanda (IMO 9631993) suffered a loss of containers sometime between July 3rd and 5th while in the Arabian sea east, of Socotra. The ship had to interrupt its voyage and arrived at Djibouti Anchorage on July 6th. On July 15th it moved to the port and berthed at the Doraleh...
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Cargo ship Ocean Grace (IMO 9284257) has been released and sailed from Chittagong Port during the night of July 12th. The ship had offloaded 43,800 tonnes of limestone imported for the local cement industry after its arrival with imported raw materials for the cement industry on June 27th, but it...
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Liquefaction continued to be the greatest contributor to loss of life in the bulk sector, according to a report from Intercargo, the International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners. Despite high levels of awareness from shipowners themselves of the dangers of improperly loaded cargo, liquefaction...
Tanker Amelia (IMO 9308778) en route from Istanbul with 24 crew members and a cargo of 3,000 metric tonnes of gas oil on board, was in collision with chemical/oil products tanker Tanab (IMO 9803429 ) which was en route from Aliaga, Turkey, to Varna, Bulgaria with 16 crew members on board, south of...
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An Indonesian inter-island cargo ship, KM Lintas Damani 5, crushed a fishing boat that apparently lost power and strayed into the shipping lane. A reported 15 crewmembers aboard the disabled fishing boat all jumped overboard and all, apparently, survived. The accident happened near the South...
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Convex is set to provide paper to ex-Chubb hull underwriters Dan Dobisz and Jack Buchan to launch a marine hull-focused MGA, reports The Insurer. UK-based Dobisz has been a hull class underwriter at Chubb since April 2011, having previously spent nearly seven years at Brit. London-based Buchan has...