The decision by Ukraine late in August to exempt its seafarers from mandatory service in the armed forces, and to be allowed to leave the country to work on ships internationally, would free up manpower for both Ukrainian grain exports and the wider global shipping industry, reported Reuters,...
Lebanon’s judiciary is seeking to appoint a second judge to the investigation into the August 2020 Beirut port blast, according to source. The move has highlighted deep divisions over efforts to hold officials to account over a tragedy that killed more than 220 people. Judge Tarek Bitar’s...
Canada has promised C$2.5m (US$1.9m) in funding to support the UN-coordinated international salvage operation of the decaying hulk of FSO Safer, which has been anchored off Yemen, abandoned since 2015 but with more than a million barrels of oil onboard. The initial funding is to pay for the...
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The cargo discharge operation from chemical/oil products tanker Torc (IMO 9544683) was completed during the afternoon of August 31st and the vessel was shifted from Celebi Port, Turkey to nearby Bandirma anchorage the same afternoon. A damage survey was carried out by surveyors. Repairs were...
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Gibraltar’s authorities were preparing to reopen the port of the British Overseas Territory on Wednesday September 7th, nine days after bulk carrier OS 35 collided with anchored gas carrier Adam LNG and subsequently grounded. The vast majority of the fuel from the OS 35 was now reported to have...
Two charges have been laid against Transocean Canada Drilling Services for alleged offences related to an injury onboard the semi-submersible rig Transocean Barents, in the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador offshore area on September 6, 2019. Both charges from Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board (C-NLOPB) relate to contraventions of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Marine Installations…
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Supply-chain problems are continuing globally, with more than 2% of all global shipping capacity currently doing nothing but waiting outside Germany’s ports on the North Sea. On the other side of the Atlantic, soy bean supplies have been interrupted. Congestion at Bremerhaven and Hamburg was...
Fears that the UN and Turkey-brokered Black Sea Corridor agreement might not last beyond its original term of 120 days increased on September 6th after Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed that the West was not honouring its promise to help Russian food and fertilizer exports reach global...
General cargo ship Hav Marlin (IMO 9006954) contacted the pier while mooring at Vierow Port, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, Baltic Sea, during the morning of September 5th when it was arriving from Antwerp via the Kiel Canal. It had 2,800 tons of fertilizer on board. Both ship and pier sustained...
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A federal judge in Los Angeles has dismissed a criminal indictment against the captain of dive boat Conception. Jerry Nehl Boylan had been charged with manslaughter in the deaths of 34 people when the vessel caught fire and sank off the southern California coast three years ago. The 75-footer...