India’s Adani Ports and Logistics has released a circular explaining the new standard operating procedure (SOP) when it comes to entering enclosed spaces on vessels. Vessels calling as Krishnapatnam Port must now comply with the following: The vessel must have onboard a certified multi gas detector...
Existing fire-fighting methods used to extinguish machinery space spray and pool fires on conventionally fuelled vessels are inadequate when dealing with methanol-based fires, according to a fire safety study by survival technology solutions provider Survitec Extensive comparative fire tests were undertaken on dual-fuel marine engines using diesel oil and methanol. Michal Sadzynski, product manager, water…
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The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has lowered significantly its forecast for US coal exports due to the temporary closure of the Port of Baltimore. The EIA had initially projected an increase of about 1% in US coal exports for 2024. However, the latest data from the EIA’s Short-Term...
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The attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden on commercial shipping has resulted in older vessels being kept in service. With vessels taking a considerably longer route around the Cape of Good Hope, what might have been an oversupply of container vessels, which are just now coming on stream as a...
Containership APL Qingdao (IMO 9461893) lost propulsion in a New York City waterway and came to halt near the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge last Friday night, April 5th – something which normally would probably have merited little more than a brief news note, but which was propelled to headline level...
The Marine Accident Investigation Branch (MAIB) has published an interim investigation report into the capsizing of the tug Biter while it was assisting passenger ship Hebridean Princess (IMO 6409351) near Greenock, Inverclyde, on February 24th 2023, in which George Taft, 65, of Greenock and Ian...
Maersk-labelled containers in recent months have become a frequent sight on the railway that traverses Panama from one ocean to the other, but the recent introduction by the Panama Canal Authority of additional transit slots per day has seen the Danish shipping line, after observing developments...
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Houthi forces in Yemen said on Sunday they had launched rockets and drones at UK-, US- and Israel-linked ships. The militia said it had targeted a British ship and a number of US frigates in the Red Sea, while in the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean it had attacked two Israeli vessels that were heading…
Eight people have been reported missing from fishing boat Yuenan Aoyu 36062 after it sank due to a collision with containership SITC Danang (IMO 9241009) off the coast of South China’s Hainan province. The accident occurred shortly after midnight local time on Wednesday April 3rd about 22nm...
Cargo ship SC Montana (IMO 9311842), which lost power on the evening of April 2nd and drifted into Cayman waters, prompting an appeal for help from the local Coast Guard and Cayman Islands government, was towed about 25 miles off the coast of the smallest of the country’s three islands during the...
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