The latest Swedish Club Monthly Safety Scenario reports on the case of a bulk carrier that had loaded Indonesian coal to be discharged at another Asian port. After loading, all the hatch covers and openings were closed and sealed. During the voyage, the cargo holds were monitored by taking gas...
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The Paris Memorandum of Understanding on Port State Control (Paris MoU) has begun sharing its inspection data with the public in bulk form. The Paris MoU website has been expanded with an additional, dedicated page where the inspection results can be downloaded. After receiving an account for the...
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Container ship TS Moji (IMO 9365154) was caught in a typhoon resulting in damage to several containers on weather deck while the vessel was en route from Shanghai to Yokohama. The ship turned back in the storm and sought shelter at an anchorage north of Shanghai. Salvage was contracted to handle...
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MS Amlin Underwriting Ltd, the Lloyd’s platform of MS Amlin, has named Stuart Forsyth as lead class underwriter for hull. He will take up the role mid-October and report directly to Laurence Humberstone, Head of Marine. Forsyth, who has more than 30 years of experience across underwriting and...
Passenger ro-ro ferry Raffaele Rubattino (IMO 9144744) came into contact with the considerably smaller berthed ferry Antonello Da Messina (IMO 8708593) in Palermo, Sicily during the morning of October 3rd, having arrived from Naples. Both ships sustained damage, although the extent was unknown. It...
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Container ship Thalassa Patris (IMO 9665607) interrupted its voyage from Singapore to Suez on September 30th while it was in the Laccadive Sea, north of Maldives. The vessel sailed to Colombo after one or more containers containing hazmat material or liquid started to leak. The vessel arrived at...
The Maldives Director General of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on September 26th that the damages caused by the grounding of cargo ship Navios Amaryllis (IMO 9423487) had been assessed and that a fine had been calculated to impose on the vessel. The amount was not disclosed. A joint...
Bulk Carrier Nikolaos GS (IMO 9267170) was detained in Lübeck, Germany for 20 days after a regular Port State inspection identified 68 defects, including those on emergency exits, engine room insulation, fire doors, and fire dampers. Christian Bubenzer from the ship safety department of BG Verkehr...
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Cargo ship Vera Su (IMO 8611219), which ran aground in an environmentally sensitive part of the Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria late last month (IMN, September 23rd) has been drained of fuel, but still had on board its cargo of nitrogen fertilisers, amid fears that any lightering attempt would lead to...
A minor oil leak was being reported as leaking from the partially sunken wreck of the burnt-out container vessel X Press Pearl (IMO 9875343) off the coast of Sri Lanka, the Marine Environment Protection Authority (MEPA) said on September 29th. No more than 20 litres of oil were found to be leaking...
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