Safety and Security

Key Bridge response operations deal with weather challenges

The Unified Command responding to the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge was continuing to coordinate operations Wednesday, despite challenging weather conditions that included severe thunderstorms and high winds.

Trained crews, in conjunction with the Unified Command, were taking steps forward with operations and conducting routine salvage assessments, while evaluating the safest and most effective routes. Divers are on scene to conduct underwater surveys along with mapping out...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/ports-terminals/key-bridge-response-operations-deal-with-weather-challenges/

Ship owner and master fined after pilot ladder breaks

broken pilot ladder

Here’s another incident underscoring the importance of pilot ladder maintenance. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) reports that, acting on its behalf, he Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) has successfully prosecuted a ship’s master and shipping company, following a serious accident involving a ship’s mooring master when he was providing pilot services.

The incident occurred May 25, 2023, when the mooring master was providing pilot services on the Panama-flagged...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/safety-and-security/ship-owner-and-master-fined-after-pilot-ladder-breaks/

“Complacency” seen in $2 million barge strike on Natchez-Vidalia Bridge

Complacency in the workplace is widely recognized as a safety hazard and a towing vessel captain’s complacency led to barges striking the Natchez-Vidalia Bridge last year in the Mississippi River, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday.​​

The incident occurred on April 23, 2023 when the 1982- built160-foot-long towing vessel Susan K, owned by the Commerce Bank and operated by SCF Towing was transiting with 25 barges downbound on the Mississippi River toward the Natchez-Vidalia...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/complacency-seen-in-2-million-barge-strike-on-natchez-vidalia-bridge/

VIDEO: Work starts on Baltimore temporary alternate channel

As the first pieces of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key bridge began to be removed, the Coast Guard Captain of the Port (COTP) is preparing to establish a temporary alternate channel on the northeast side of the main channel in the vicinity of the bridge for commercially essential vessels.

How soon that will happen remains unclear, but video released yesterday by the Coast Guard showed Aids to Navigation (ATN) teams starting to drop buoys to mark the temporary alternate channel

“This will...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/safety-and-security/video-work-starts-on-baltimore-temporary-alternate-channel/

Unified Command releases update on Baltimore bridge collapse response

As the Unified Command set up in response to the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge continued its efforts, news came that the bodies of two workers killed in the incident had been recovered.

Maryland State Police Col. Ronald Butler Jr. said the focus now shifts to a “salvage operation,” as the bridge’s superstructure is blocking diver access to the remaining victims.

“We have exhausted all search efforts and the areas around this wreckage, and based on the sonar scans, we firmly...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/ports-terminals/unified-command-releases-update-on-baltimore-bridge-collapse-response/

ICS Highlights Shortcomings In Seafarer Wellbeing Amid Red Sea Crisis

As the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) explains in their Leadership Insights newsletter story, shipping charities and unions have aired concerns that seafarer safety and well-being are being overlooked as they get caught in the crosshairs of geopolitical conflict in the Gulf of Aden, Red Sea, and Bab el-Mandeb Strait.  

Worst Fears

According to ICS, the missile attack on True Confidence on 6th March, which resulted in the tragic loss of three crew, realized the worst fears of many in the...

https://mfame.guru/ics-highlights-shortcomings-in-seafarer-wellbeing-amid-red-sea-crisis/

VIDEO: White House briefing on Baltimore bridge response

”It’s my intention that the federal government will pay for the entire cost of reconstructing that bridge and I expect the Congress to support my effort,” President Biden pledged yeserday as he delivered remarks on the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Today House Press Secretary Karine Jeanne-Pierre was joined by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Vice Admiral Peter W. Gautier, U.S. Coast Guard Deputy Commandant for Operations, for a press briefing on thr efforts to reopen the...

https://www.marinelog.com/inland-coastal/ports-terminals/video-white-house-briefing-on-baltimore-bridge-response/

BREAKING: Rescue underway following Baltimore bridge collapse after ship strike

There are more questions than answers this morning as Americans wake up to the news of a 948-foot Singapore-flagged containership, chartered by Maersk, having smashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Md., after leaving the Port of Baltimore.

The Baltimore Fire Department reported that two people were rescued from the water and taken to a local hospital in critical condition. It’s unclear how many additional casualties rescuers are trying to locate.

The Port of Baltimore announced

https://www.marinelog.com/news/breaking-rescue-underway-following-baltimore-bridge-collapse-after-containership-strike/

Houthi missile hits Chinese owned tanker Huang Pu

Casting more doubts on reports that the Houthis have done sort of a deal to not target Chinese (or Russian) ships, the Iranian-backed terrorist group on March 23 launched four anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBM) into the Red Sea in the vicinity of M/V Huang Pu, a Panamanian-flagged, Chinese-owned, Chinese-operated 115,449 dwt tanker.

According to U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), at 4:25 p.m. (Sanaa time), a fifth ballistic missile was detected as fired toward M/V Huang Pu. The ship issued a...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/safety-and-security/houthi-missile-hits-chinese-owned-tanker-huang-pu/

Maersk sees Red Sea routings as still too risky

Maersk is to continue to avoid Red Sea routings of it its ships. In an update today, it said that it would continue to send ships via the Cape of Good Hope and around the Africa rather than through the Houthi-threatened Red Sea and Bab el Mandeb Strait. It noted that while it welcomed the EU ASPIDES security operation as a “very positive development to increase the safety in the region,” its internal analysis, as well as insight received from external sources, “still indicates that the risk...

https://www.marinelog.com/legal/safety-and-security/maersk-sees-red-sea-routings-as-still-too-risky/

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