The maritime industry, a vital component of global trade, has consistently set records with groundbreaking advancements in speed, size, efficiency, and environmental innovation. As one of the largest industries powering international commerce, shipping companies and ports are pushing the boundaries...
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A new inspection regime, called SIRE 2.0, will be served to all tanker vessels in the 4th quarter of 2022. According to OCIMF, this modern approach to vetting inspection will have significant improvements compared to the current version of SIRE. But we still don’t know how vetting exams will behave...
The spokesman representing Iran’s foreign ministry, Saeed Khatibzadeh, reported that the crew members of two Greece-based oil tankers it seized in the Gulf have not been arrested and are safe and sound. Per him, the ties between Greece and Iran have always been based on mutual respect.
In a veiled attack on the US aimed at asking Greece to seize an Iran-based tanker’s crude oil cargo, Khatibzadeh mentioned that the ties between Athens and Tehran must not be impacted by short-sighted...
A chemical carrier was inbound for a port in good visibility and weather conditions. This was the first time the Master and OOW had entered this particular port. In preparing the passage plan, slack water had been chosen as a time best suited to berth as the tidal stream would be minimal. Low water was predicted to be at 1515 with a height of 1.1 metres, and the plan was to arrive around this time. The next daylight slack water was just over 19 hours later at high tide with a height of 4.7...
A tanker vessel had reportedly been detained at 14.1 nm off the northwest by the Labuan Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) on May 21 (Saturday).
Captain Nurdin Jusoh, the director, mentioned on May 22 (Sunday) that an MMEA boat had stumbled on the tanker around 10 am when it was patrolling the area.
He said that on examination it was found that the crew comprising two Indonesian nationals and three Indians, aged between 25 years and 42 years, were on the vessel with...
https://www.marineinsight.com/shipping-news/labuan-mmea-seizes-tanker-vessel-with-illegal-crew/
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have reportedly seized a foreign vessel that was allegedly smuggling fuel in the waters of the Persian Gulf. They have arrested the crew members per state media reports received on Sunday. It is the third incident of the same type to be reported in the month.
The Guards captured a foreign vessel loaded with about 200,000 litres of smuggled fuel in the Persian Gulf. Post seizing, they directed it toward the Bushehr (port), per state broadcaster IRIB’s report obtained...
Tanker ships or commonly known as “tankers” in the maritime world, are special kinds of vessels designed to carry liquid cargoes in bulk. Anything of liquid form can be transported through these ships. Since there thousands of various liquid goods out there, there are also many types of tankers...
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At about 7.15am AEST on Thursday, 3rd December 2020 a coastal pilot on board the MT Godam contacted Townsville Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) to report a sighting of two people clinging to a timber plank in the water.
The location for the sighting was about 10km southeast of Sue Islet, Warraber Reef. Conditions were rough with two to three metre swells with around 30 knot winds.
Townsville VTS immediately contacted the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) who tasked its Challenger search...
After three months of OPEC+ production cuts, tanker markets are feeling the pressure with both crude and products sector earnings moving lower in July according to Maritime Strategies International.
Back in May MSI forecast quarterly average Aframax one year timecharter rates to fall from $32.4 k/day to $21.6 k/Day at a time when spot markets were seeing record levels. MSI believed the realities of the largest quarterly drop in global oil demand ever seen were never going to present truly...
14 crew members are missing after two ships collided about 1.5 nautical miles southeast of Yangtze River.
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An oil tanker carrying about 3000 tons of gasoline collided with a gravel ship. The oil tanker caught fire and the gravel ship sank after the collision.
The rescue team have so far managed to save three crew members of the total 17 from both ships. 14 crew members ares still missing, local media reported.
The search and rescue operations are still going on.