Toward the open sea off Newfoundland as questions mounted about its safety and why a tug vessel was sent to haul it out of the St. John’s harbour in the middle of winter. The Lyubov Orlova, which is a 237-passenger ship about 100-metres long, has been adrift since its tow line snapped in rough
Read moreUSCG unified order is handling with a crude oil leakage from a damaged barge in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The barge had earlier been damaged through collision with a bridge support while in tow, and the Mississippi River is still closed to all marine traffic for a sixteen-mile distance among mile marker 425 and mile marker
Read moreBased on the vision of one of United States’ brilliant leader Dwight Eisenhower, the NS Savannah was a cargo ship that set many imposing standards. It was the first nuclear merchant ship to be built as a part of Eisenhower’s ‘Atoms of Peace’ platform initiated in the 1950s in an attempt to emphasis and
Read moreKarimun (ANTARA News) – Two tankers flying Indonesian flag have been caught red handed by a customs and excise sea patrol when the tankers allegedly committing illegal transfer of cargo in the Riau Island Provincial waters. The customs patrol found MT Serena II of state oil and gas company PT Pertamina unloading subsidized diesel
Read moreRomania-based Damen Shipyards Galati has launched the ‘World Diamond’, the first in a series of six fully-equipped platform supply vessels (PSV) being built for World Wide Supply, a Norway-based offshore firm. The new vessel is built to Damen’s PSV 3300 series specifications, part of the company’s the newly designed range of platform supply vessels.
Read moreTokyo (ANTARA News) – Japan’s coastguard said Tuesday it would create a special unit comprising 10 new large patrol boats to boost its surveillance of an island chain at the centre of a territorial row with China. The force, to be completed over three years, will consist of about 600 personnel and include an
Read moreVietnamese fishermen has found an abandoned, fully loaded cargo vessel, and successfully tow her to their home base. The cargo vessel, Hai Dong 27, was found abandoned and adrift by fishermen from Hoang Hoa district of Thanh Hoa province, thereafter a dozen fishing vessels towed the cargo ship over 140 nautical miles to the
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