Barge Nero lost some 18 containers in the port of Antwerp during the afternoon of December 29th. The 3,652 dwt barge developed a sharp list to port, resulting in the deck being partially submerged. She righted herself when the containers fell overboard between the vessel and the quay. The boxes...
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Geneva-based MSC has appointed salvage company Ardent Global to coordinate the search for lost cargo of containership MSC Zoe (IMO 9703318) in both German and Netherlands waters, in collaboration with the relevant authorities. Ardent Global and MSC said that they would strive to minimize the impact...
Norwegian Coast Guard vessel KV Svalbard reached grounded trawler Northguider (IMO 8714619) late last week but has since returned to Longyearbyen to take on board salvage equipment and more resources. The trawler ran aground in the strait between Spitsbergen and Nordaustlandet on Svalbard, north of...
All of the eight officers and 15 seafarers aboard container ship Yantian Express (IMO 9229831) have been reported safe and uninjured following a fire that broke out on one of the container ship as she was crossing the Atlantic, said Hamburg-based owner Hapag-Lloyd, adding that bad weather...
General cargo ship London (IMO 9218698) issued a distress message early on January 2nd after the ship capsized some 80 nm northeast of Pengjia islet, a small island NE of the northernmost tip of Taiwan. She subsequently sank. An SAR operation was launched to rescue the 15 crew members, 14 from...
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Vessel traffic in the Lower Mississippi River near New Orleans has come to a stop after bulk carrier Anglo Alexandria (IMO 9451044) ran aground close to mile marker 3.5 during the morning of Friday January 4th. The navigation channel was closed and the US Coast Guard said that more than 50 vessels...
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The tricky salvage of fishing trawler Northguider (IMO 8714619), aground in the Arctic Circle, took a step forward during the night of January 3rd when, after a considerable wait, the salvage team from Dutch salvage company Ardent Global finally obtained a weather window and boarded the fishing...
The US Coast Guard, the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) and Tennessee Valley Towing Company said that they were continuing their response to the barge accident of the Debbie Graham on the Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky, on January 2nd. Two cranes, a barge and a tow boat arrived on January 3rd...
Vehicle carrier Sincerity Ace (IMO 9519092), which caught fire on December 31st, has about 3,500 Nissan vehicles on board, according to Automotive News. 6,400 vehicle capacity, 59,000 gt Sincerity Ace was sailing from Japan to Hawaii the fire broke out, with 21 crew members aboard. The US Coast...
A fire broke out on Thursday January 3rd on containership Yantian Express (IMO 9229831) off the Canadian east coast. German shipping line Hapag Lloyd said on Friday that it was trying to extinguish the fire, but was being hampered by bad weather. The fire broke out in a container on deck and spread...