Canada’s ban on large cruise ships entering its ports, implemented in March 2020, ended as of November 1st. However, Canada’s federal government is continuing to advise its citizens against travel aboard cruise ships. The decision was first announced by Canadian Minister of Transport Omar Alghabra...
At the end of a distinctly long-term relationship, giant heavy lift barge VB 10,000 departed St. Simons Sound, Brunswick, Georgia, USA on Monday November 1st. After two years of salvage work that started in September 2019 and which en route required no little amount of working things out as they...
NOAA research ship Okeanos Explorer may have located the wreck of the lost World War II tanker SS Bloody Marsh, one of several hundred merchant ships that were sunk by German U-boats off the Atlantic coast of the US during World War II. SS Bloody Marsh was a T2 tanker deployed in coastal service....
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The Vung Tau Port Authority has said that it was still reviewing the salvage plan for cargo ship My An 1 (IMO 9060728), which was in collision with cargo ship Lisa Auerbach (IMO 9388900) early on September 14th off the coast of Vietnam. Salvage operations were planned for November, the Vung Tau...
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Carlos Eugenio Lima, who is alleged to have shot the captain and the first officer of tankship Ayane (IMO 9395991) off Ensenada, Argentina, has been placed in preventive detention by the judge of the case. In a 23-page ruling, Magistrate Ernesto Kreplak, in charge of Federal Court 3 of La Plata,...
The decision by the master of giant ore carrier Stellar Banner (IMO 9726803) to deviate from its planned route was one of the causal factors in its grounding in February 2020, an investigation conducted by the Republic of the Marshall Islands Maritime Administrator has concluded. The VLOC contacted...
In A Steamship Mutual financial Update the Club has announced that it will be implementing a 12.5% general increase for policy year 2022/23. “Naturally the Directors prefer not to ask for premium increases, but we believe that these steps will protect the Club’s financial strength now and in the...
An India High Court has directed the authorities of Shipping, Coast Guard and Mumbai Port to detain the bulk carrier Navios Venus (IMO 9713492) following its collision with fishing vessel Shijumon off the Colachel coast on October 22nd. The petitioner submitted that two of the 17 fishing boat crew...
Thomas Miller Specialty has named UK P&I Club as its new strategic underwriting partner for fixed premium P&I. The new partnership will start from the January 1st 2022. Thomas Miller said that the move would enable it “to provide increased value and service provision for our joint customers in what...
The much commented upon deterioration in the reliability of container ship schedules in recent months was confirmed by Taiwan-based Evergreen late last week when it reported that for Q3 it managed to get just 13.2% of its ships into port on time. Schedule reliability data from Copenhagen-based...