A crew member of the ER Athina – now sailing as Cho Supporter – who died after being crushed on the vessel off Aberdeen, Scotland, in 2012, was left waiting for a fishing boat to take him to hospital after his injuries were underestimated, an investigating Sherriff has concluded, His chest became...
General cargo ships Walter Hammann (IMO 8714841) and Dagna (IMO 9313802) collided shortly after midnight local time on May 15th in the Lower Weser upstream from Nordenham, Germany, The Dagna was sailing upstream to Brake, Germany, while the German coaster was sailing downstream, from Bremen,...
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Iranian authorities seized a foreign ship that was alleged to have been attempting to smuggle fuel out of the country. The crew were detained, state news agency IRNA said on May 18th. Iran heavily subsidizes its fuel for domestic consumption, which makes attractive the smuggling of fuel abroad to...
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Salvage work on the wrecked containership X Press Pearl (IMO 9875343) has been suspended ahead of the imminent southwest monsoon season in Sri Lanka. The Shanghai Salvage Company has successfully installed all the lifting slings and messenger wires in preparation for removing the wreck sections....
Quadrant Chambers reports that the Commercial Court has handed down judgment in Piraeus Bank v. Antares (The ZouZou) [2022] EWHC 1169 (Comm). The decision concerns mortgagees’ interest insurance and the standard exclusions in a war risk policy. The claim arose out of the detention of tanker ZouZou...
The containers carrying palm oil on the ship Mathu Bhum (IMO 8813647) were booked prior to Indonesia suspending palm oil exports in April (IMN May 10th, May 13th), its operator RCL has said. There was no container from RCL in the list of 34 20ft containers. However, they were all customs approved...
During a routine surveillance flight by Turkey’s Environmental Protection and Control Department in the Gulf of Izmit, it was determined that tankship Jabrayil Dovlatzadeh (IMO 9383613) had polluted the sea off the coast of the Yalova shipyards on May 16th. The situation was reported to the Coast...
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Royal Caribbean International cruise ship Harmony Of The Seas (IMO 9682875) violated a US Coast Guard Captain of the Port safety zone and caused the cancellation of a SpaceX rocket launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in January , A US Coast Guard investigation has concluded. The Harmony of the...
An incident in which 115,406 dwt Maltese-flag oil tanker Riverside made contact with a loading dock in the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas on March 15th 2021 resulted in $550,000 in damages to the vessel and $7m in damages to the dock, according to the report issued by the US National Transportation...
When the cruise ship MSC Seaside (IMO 9745366) made its maiden call in Valencia, Spain in April, 10 of its passengers were intercepted by Spain’s national law-enforcement agency the Guardia Civil. The force conducted a check of passenger luggage from the MSC Seaside and a drug-dog alerted to a set...