The Royal Moroccan Navy successfully stopped a group of migrants from hijacking a cargo ship off Morocco’s southern coast on November 4, 2024.
The incident occurred about 68 miles (110 kilometers) west of Tan-Tan, a coastal city in southern Morocco. The Liberian-flagged vessel was approached by migrants who attempted to divert it to the Canary Islands.
According to the Royal Armed Forces’ General Staff statement, the cargo ship sent an alert to Rabat’s Maritime Rescue...
In reaction to the escalating threats posed by the Iran-backed Houthi attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea, Rear Admiral Vasileios Gryparis, the head of a European Union force protecting these vessels, highlighted the urgent need for more warships deployment to increase freight traffic.
Gryparis cited Operational Aspides’ victory in safeguarding international shipping with the successful escort of 79 vessels without any reported damage.
Admiral Vasileios Gryparis pointed out...
Drones said to have been launched by Iran assaulted an Israeli billionaire-owned container vessel in the Indian Ocean.
According to an American defence official, the CMA CGM ship Symi was attacked by a triangular, bomb-carrying advanced Shahed-136 drone while on international seas on Friday. The crew was not injured even though the vessel was damaged.
Minimal ship damage
Al-Mayadeen, a pan-Arab satellite channel politically aligned with the Iranian-backed...
A gigantic German cruise vessel has been sailing back and forth all over the English Channel, looking for a crew member the ship’s captain believes had fallen overboard early on Sunday morning.
The UK’s Coastguard said it has been coordinating its search with the help of a helicopter, lifeboats, and Coastguard aircraft.
The German cruise vessel reportedly called the AIDAperla, was on its way to Rotterdam from Hamburg when the man fell overboard, per Sky News.
In a statement to...
The UN declared on March 9 that they had marked an assertion for the buy of ships to expel more than one million barrels of oil from a dispatch spoiling off the red ocean coast of Yemen.
A significant human and natural calamity four times more awful than the Exxon Valdez calamity in The frozen north in 1989 was debilitated by the elude of the drifting security vessel, FSO More secure. In Yemen’s continuous respectful war that has attacked the nation since 2014, More secure has been stuck for a...
Over the next few days, we will bid farewell to an incredible piece of history, the world’s oldest cruise ship, the 16,144 gt Astoria currently docked in Rotterdam. Its penultimate voyage will be to a European Union shipyard.
The vessel has a long service history of 75 years – from being the cruise ship for the German Communist Party to a transatlantic passenger ship and then a place for asylum seekers. It has seen it all.
It started its journey with the name Stockholm under the Swedish-American...
https://www.marineinsight.com/marine/worlds-oldest-cruise-ship-bids-adieu-after-75-years-of-service/
The US has lately been eyeing a new icebreaker – a massive vessel capable of navigating the frozen seas – to patrol the disputed waters in the Arctic Ocean, congressional aides have reported to the wall street journal.
On top of the world
Since 1971, the Arctic has reportedly shed about 31,300 square miles of ice each year — about the size of South Carolina melting every 12 months. Yet, a significant amount of thick ice remains, blocking the trade routes and giving the world’s superpowers the...
North P&I Club has released a new briefing paper exploring the insurance implications when solid cargoes behave like fluids and presenting typical responses to claims arising from cases of liquefaction.
Published today, 25 May 2022, A Most Dangerous Trade: The Problems of Liquefaction provides insight into the consequences of liquefaction, whereby solid bulk cargo behaves like a fluid, creating a free-surface effect that may, in certain cases, cause the vessel to capsize. The paper is written by...
https://www.marineinsight.com/marine/a-most-dangerous-trade-the-problems-of-liquefaction/
OBE Organic, Australia’s oldest organic beef exporting company, has become the first refrigerated meat exporter in Oceania, to vastly lower the ocean emissions of its North America exports.
OBE Organic’s entire supply chain is fully certified organic, from buying certified organic cattle from producers, having the cattle processed at modern certified organic abattoirs to selling grass fed organic beef worldwide.
Now the company is taking further steps to reduce its carbon footprint with Maersk’s...
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) had participated in a tabletop drill in preparation for a serious marine incident, organized by Pilbara Ports Authority (PPA) in the Australian state of Western Australia.
Image Credits: mol.co.jp
Under the drill scenario, a Capesize bulker with full load of iron ore ran aground off Port Hedland, Western Australia, the world’s largest iron ore loading port. PPA invited MOL, as a major operator of Capesize bulkers. Major iron ore mining companies that use Port...