The Palau International Ship Registry has suspended the registration of three LNG carriers recently sanctioned by the US. The Asya Energy, Everest Energy and Pioneer were among seven gas carriers sanctioned by the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) last Friday. Talks of Russia...
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COLUMN | Failing flag states, abandoned crew and piffle from Palau [Offshore Accounts]
This week, I want to look at how the shipping industry can overcome some of its biggest challenges – not greenhouse gases and climate change, nor sexism and homophobia, but the problems of abandoned crews, excessively long tours of duty, and the low safety standards that bedevil the wider maritime...
Family seeks answers over death onboard shadow tanker in China
The family of a dead Georgian seafarer is seeking answers from authorities in China. Splash has seen shocking footage of the moment a seafarer died, covered head to toe in flames, and a Chinese yard worker was seriously injured after an explosion onboard during routine repairs at a yard in northern...
https://splash247.com/family-seeks-answers-over-death-onboard-shadow-tanker-in-china/
Trade union federation accuses UAE vessel operator of seafarer abandonment
The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) recently issued a statement condemning UAE-based towage company Middle East Marine for what it claims are “systematic abuse and neglect of over 100 seafarers.” The ITF said it is calling on the UAE government and the Palau maritime authorities...
COLUMN | “Not a matter of if, but when”: Subsea mining on hold, for now; Teddy goes to St Petersburg; Safer gets safer [Offshore Accounts]
It has been a rollercoaster couple of months for seabed mining pioneer The Metals Company. For most of the last year, the company’s share price languished below one ..
Vessel capsizes, spills containers at Taiwan’s Kaohsiung Port
Over 600 containers fell into the sea after a foreign-flagged vessel capsized and sank in the Port of Kaohsiung in Taiwan on Thursday, July 20. The captain of the Palau-f ..
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OPINION | To balance the Quad equation, India and Australia must drive an “Indo” focus
For all the attention given to the Quad, the grouping itself has devoted limited time to the Indian Ocean – the “Indo” part of the Indo-Pacific region. As the two c ..
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Island Nations Key to U.S. Maintaining Position as Pacific Power
USS Benfold (DDG-65) is at anchor off Koror, Republic of Palau in 2012. US Navy Photo
This post has been updated to correct that Yun was speaking at the Hudson Institute on Friday.
The Freely Associated States lying between Hawaii and the Philippines are crucial to the United States remaining a Pacific power, the special envoy to these three island nations said Friday.
To China, the Republics of the Marshall Islands and Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia “are the Second Island chain”...
https://news.usni.org/2023/04/28/island-nations-key-to-u-s-maintaining-position-as-pacific-power
US, Philippine Coast Guards join search for missing Taiwanese fishing vessel
The Coast Guards of the United States and the Philippines have joined a search and rescue (SAR) effort led by the Taiwan Coast Guard Administration (TCGA) to attempt to l ..
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REMINISCENCES | Captain Hook and four dangerous sharks
Who is Captain Hook? He plays an important part in this episode and is a very remarkable man. He is Howard W. Pollock, who died in 2011 at age 90, and has had a career mo ..
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