Bulk carrier Pan Jasmine (IMO 9548328) was ordered to leave US waters after agriculture specialists of the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the Port of New Orleans discovered invasive insects in the wood used to secure its previous cargo offloaded earlier in Mexico. The ship had arrived at...
Taiwan’s Maritime Port Bureau (MPB) has said that there have been only six cases of seafarer abandonment by foreign commercial vessel operators reported in Taiwan since 2018, of which only two remained unresolved. The MPB’s statement came after local media reported recently that cases of seafarer...
Israel has accused Iran of being responsible for an attack on an oil tanker in which two crew members – a British national and a Romanian citizen – were killed. Oil products tanker Mercer Street (IMO 9539585), operated by London-based Zodiac Maritime, was off Oman’s coast in the Arabian Sea when...
South African state-owned port and land transport logistics operator Transnet has said that operations at South African ports were now back to normal, with days after operations were brought to a virtual standstill as a result of a cyber-attack. “Transnet Port Terminals, in collaboration with the...
Offshore processing ship Höegh Esperanza (IMO 9780354) ran aground in Rio de la Plata fairway while approaching Buenos Aires at around 01:00 UTC on July 30th, late July 29th local time. The tanker was en route from Corpus Christi and was understood to be in load. The vessel was refloated during the...
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Two container terminals at the Port of Houston have reopened after a hardware failure had halted operations on Tuesday July 27th. Truck traffic and access to the port’s terminal operating system, N4, and its customer service portal, Lynx, were restored on Thursday. An update on Friday said that...
Six passengers on Royal Caribbean International cruise ship Adventure of the Seas (IMO 9167227) tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday July 29th six days into a week-long round-trip cruise from Nassau in the Bahamas. There were about 1,000 passengers and 900 crew members on board. Four of the...
Port of Houston’s two container terminals, Bayport and Barbours Cut, were shut at the beginning of the week because of a hardware failure. The Port said that the fault was not related to a cyber-attack. Executive director Roger Guenther said in a letter to customers and stakeholders that “yesterday...
Damon Hartley, Senior Claims Executive, UK Club and legal firm Freehill Hogan and Mahar LLP in New York, have written an article on the US Carriage of Goods By Sea Act (COGSA) and the Harter Act. Hartley noted that UK Club’s members often dealt with contracts of carriage subject to COGSA and the...
A tanker, reported as likely to be Chemical/Oil Products Tanker Orasund (IMO 9336701) went out of control after an engine failure and collided with a general cargo ship, likely to be BBC Parana (IMO 9571387) in the Kiel Canal near Kiel locks, at around 01:20 local time on July 27th. The ships were...
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