Crew members on passenger vessel Spirit of Norfolk (IMO 8861618) checked the engine room of the ship every 30 minutes as a safety precaution and had done so shortly before a fire broke out, the captain of the ship testified on Friday January 27th, the second day of a US Coast Guard formal hearing...
A man suffered a fatal fall on container ship Maersk Eindhoven (IMO 9456771) during the afternoon of Wednesday January 25th. The vessel was at the 2500 block of S. Navy Way at the APMT Pier 400 in the Port of Los Angeles at the time. The LA Fire Department was notified at 16:45 local time…
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The Columbia River unit of the US Coast Guard has taken action against fishing vessels that turn off their AIS in order to keep secret the location of their crab pots. Operating “dark” is a common procedure in the Northwest’s coastal fisheries because fishers do not want their rivals to know where...
The death toll after the sinking of general cargo ship Jin Tian (IMO 9578713) in icy waters on January 25th has climbed by two to eight. The dead included six Chinese sailors, according to the Chinese consul general, who was speaking in Fukuoka, Japan, on January 26th. Several Japanese Coast Guard...
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/jin-tian-death-toll-rises-to-eight/
Container ship MOL Treasure (IMO 9773222) broke down in Southampton waters, UK, during the afternoon of January 26th and was being held in position by four tugs between the Fawley refinery and Hamble point. The vessel had departed Southampton that day for the port of Le Havre at 11:30 local time....
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/marine-accident-round-up-30th-january-2023/
The storms along the Pacific coast in Asia last week not only caused the loss of the Jin Tian (see above story) and the grounding of general cargo ship Xin Hai Zhou 2 (IMO 9507104) (IMN, January 26th) but also...
Officials have said that a new investigation into the sinking of the ferry Estonia in the Baltic Sea in 1994, which claimed 852 lives, had revealed flaws in its bow visor construction that had been missed during its certification. They said that if the examination had been carried out the...
American Club has noted that silver nitrate testing for the presence of sodium chloride (salt) in cargo holds prior to loading was an important practice to prevent claims for damage to steel cargoes. The Club emphasized that, as part of the standard pre-load survey for transporting steel cargoes,...
North P&I Club has launched a mobile app which it said would make easier the gathering of evidence. It said that the app would make the collecting of evidence on incidents faster, easier and more accurate, while enhancing reporting consistency in future claims. “The MRCE Handbook” app from North...
https://insurancemarinenews.com/insurance-marine-news/new-app-for-evidence-gathering-from-north/
Athens, Greece-based Xclusiv Shipbrokers has broken down what the new Indian rules on ship ages (IMN, January 25th) will mean in practice, and have concluded that they will probably have only a tiny effect on the global merchant fleet. The new proposed rules will mean that no bulk carrier, tanker...