USA-based offshore drilling company Cox Operating LLC USA has sued the Turkey-based manager of crude oil tanker Atina (IMO 9593000) for an alleged contact with COX’s oil platform on October 17th. COX filed suit the following day in the US District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana. The company...
International Transport Intermediaries Club (ITIC) has reported that a recent claim handled by ITIC involved a fixture identifying a discharge in a north China range designated as “1-2 port(s) Quingdao-Dongying”. This fixture was completed and, later, the same broker was asked by the same charterer...
A damaged Venezuelan oil tanker recently tilting to one side in the Caribbean after taking on water poses no significant risk of spilling and causing an environmental catastrophe, Minister of Energy of Trinidad & Tobago Franklin Khan said on October 22nd. A team of experts from his country had...
The cargo of bagged millet and corn in the cargo hold of general cargo ship Unispirit (IMO 9356402) was searched by Spanish police, Coastguard and customs teams over five days while it was docked at Las Palmas. The ship had berthed on October 16th, en route from Sao Sebastiao in Brazil to Cadiz,...
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Mauritius has rejected an application for bail made by the captain of the Wakashio that sunk off its south-eastern coast in July. “Given that the applicant may be charged with a serious offence and if found guilty a severe penalty may be imposed on him by the trial court, I am of the view that…
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Tankers were entering and leaving Cheniere Energy Inc’s Sabine Pass liquefied natural gas export plant in Louisiana despite draft limitations in the Sabine-Neches Waterway after a rig ran aground in the channel over the weekend. A large semi-submersible rig, the Jasminia, had drifted into and ran...
Local politicians in Western Australia and other Australian states are reported to be discussing refusing entry to vessels that have cases of Covid-19 on board. There have been several recent high-profile cases of Covid-19 infections on vessels off Western Australian ports. Mark McGowan, the...
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Aframax oil tanker Icaro (IMO 9038842), operated by Venezuelan state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, was approaching floating oil storage facility Nabarima on Tuesday October 20th, reported Reuters, citing Refinitiv Eikon data and an unnamed person familiar with the matter. The Icaro was...
The US has sanctioned two Chinese nationals and six Chinese entities for having dealt with Iranian shipping company Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL), the US State Department said on Monday October 19th, adding that the individuals and entities had helped IRISL evade US sanctions. The...
The US Department of Justice has charged six Russian military intelligence officers with being responsible for the 2017 NotPetya malware attack which, among other things, disrupted the shipping operations of Maersk, necessitating a period offline and a longer period of recovery to full service....