The Navy comes to the rescue of a merchant ship near Oman, reports DailyPioneer.
What happened?The Indian Navy rushed help to a stranded cargo ship that was drifting in the high seas while sailing from Oman to Iraq.
She suffered propulsion, power generation machinery, and navigational equipment failure.
Team for the rescueBased on the preliminary aerial assessment about the distress of the vessel, the Indian Naval Ship dispatched its VBSS (Visit Board, Search and Seizure) team along with a...
India’s merchant ship remains stuck at China’s northern ‘Jingtank’ port since June, reports TheHitavada.
What is the reason?Indian Merchant ship ‘Jag Anand’, belonging to a Mumbai-based company Great Eastern Shipping Limited, is stuck in ‘Jingtank’ port since June.
The ship is loaded with around 1.70 lakh tonnes of Australian coal and is being stopped by Chinese port administration to unload cargo.
This ship chartered by a private entity left from Australia in May and arrived at the Jingtang...
https://mfame.guru/cargo-ship-with-23-seafarers-stuck-in-port-since-june/
A merchant ship was attacked in the Gulf of Guinea some 85 nm SSW of Lagos Nigeria, at around 0120 UTC Nov 11, reports Maritime Bulletin.
Understood it’s Greek-operated product tanker JANE (IMO 9364588, dwt 51505), crossing attack site at the time of the attack.
After passing the attack site, the ship’s movements became chaotic, she was probably, either out of control after pirates boarded the ship, or trying to avoid pirates boarding. As of 0245 UTC Nov 11, the situation seemed to be the same,...
https://mfame.guru/merchant-ship-attacked-by-pirates-goes-out-of-control/
A recent news article in the Indonewyork website, we could come across a nerve wrecking incident that is associated with shipping. Yes it date backs to May 25, 1720 and it is the day a merchant ship that relates the plague to Marseille.
What happened?Because only a handful of ship-owners refuses to lose a cargo of precious fabrics, 100 000 Marseille and Provence are washed out by the bubonic plague. More than 40 000 deaths in the phocean city.
When does the tragedy start?One-third of the...
https://mfame.guru/how-a-merchant-ship-brings-plague-to-marseille/