The Japan Transport Safety Board has issued its report on the grounding of the Wakashio newcastlemax, one of this decade’s most high-profile bulker casualties. As with earlier reports into the disaster which caused huge ecological damage to Mauritius, the decision by the crew to head near to shore...
https://splash247.com/japan-transport-safety-board-issues-report-on-wakashio-disaster/
The western Indian Ocean – home to the island states of Mauritius, Madagascar, Seychelles and Comoros, as well as the French territories of La Reunion and Mayotte – o ..
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By Vel Moonien in Mauritius, On Sunday, February 19th, a 98-ton Taiwanese-flagged longliner named Lien Sheng Fa lost radio contact with Taipei while cruising in international waters in the Indian Ocean, 215 nautical miles from Rodrigues Island – a dependency of Mauritius Island. At the time, intense tropical cyclone Freddy was approaching, with gusts estimated at 280 km/h near its eye. The Lien Sheng Fa was carrying 16 crew members, including a Taiwanese captain and 15 Indonesians, on a fishing...
https://gcaptain.com/16-crew-missing-from-taiwanese-longliner-capsized-during-cyclone-freddy/
By Vel Moonien (gCaptain) – MAURITIUS – Taiwanese trawler has run aground in Saint-Brandon in the Indian Ocean with diesel and fuel oil on board. A crisis committee was set…
https://gcaptain.com/taiwanese-trawler-loaded-with-diesel-and-fuel-oil-grounds-on-saint-brandon/
The European Parliament recently gave its consent to the extension of the EU-Mauritius fisheries protocol with 555 votes against 25 and 40 abstentions. The extension ensu ..
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Seafarers are concerned that in the coming decade, they may lose their jobs in a wave of autonomy, as self-driving, autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) take to the seas, ma ..
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Yesterday marked the second anniversary of the grounding of the Wakashio bulk carrier off Mauritius, the most high profile shipping casualty of the decade so far. Two years on, legal cases continue to mount. A coalition of around 1,700 citizens living around where the giant vessel broke up are...
Nearly 1,700 seafarers and inhabitants of Mauritius who have been adversely impacted by the Wakaship oil spill will file a lawsuit against Okiyo Maritime Corp. The State of Mauritius could…
https://gcaptain.com/mauritians-take-wakashio-oil-spill-battle-to-court/
Abu Dhabi companies the AD Ports Group and the NMDC Group have entered into an agreement to establish a new joint venture company to conduct offshore surveys and subsea s ..
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While negotiations on tuna stocks are going in high gear in the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission’s (IOTC) 26th session, one country referred to the report Fishing outsi ..
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