U.K. maritime intelligence provider Dryad Maritime are to release a specialist report, ‘Special Advisory Southeast Asia: Disorganized theft to organized crime,’ which will focus on the rise of targeted hijackings in Southeast Asia. The advisory to be released on March 18, 2013 provides an overview of the security situation and the increased threat from
Read moreLaunching ceremony of the first from series, modern car – passenger ferry built for one of the Norwegian Owner took place in Remontowa Shipbuilding S.A. on Friday, 8th of March 2013, Remontowa Shipbuilding is the biggest production shipyard in Poland, the only one with so extensive experience in construction of ecological, gas powered ferries.
Read moreTwo employees have been pronounced dead after a scissor lift collapsed at Port Everglades today around 11 a.m. A third worker was transported to a local hospital with critical injuries, but survived the incident. According to the Sun-Sentinel, the workers were on the scissor lift scaffold performing routine maintenance on a moving walkway that
Read moreResponders continued to monitor and prepare salvage, firefighting and pollution contingencies for a tug and barge that allided with a pipeline near Bayou Perot 30 miles south of New Orleans Wednesday. All crew members were able to exit the tug; the captain reportedly suffered second to third-degree degree burns. ES & H, the oil
Read moreIndonesia’s leading oil and gas shipper PT Berlian Laju Tanker reached a deal with creditors to restructure its $1.9 billion debt, averting what could have been one of the country’s biggest bankruptcies in years. Once the world’s third-largest chemical shipper, the group secured support for its restructuring plan on Thursday just four days before
Read moreAt 1200 hrs (Singapore time) on 13 March 2013, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) received a report of a collision between an Antigua and Barbuda-registered container ship “BOSUN” and a harbourcraft SC3566E in Sinki Fairway about 7km southwest of Pasir Panjang Terminal. There were 2 persons on board the harbourcraft, which
Read more* Engineers trying to fix Carnival Dream in St. Maarten * Latest black eye for cruise industry * Analyst says new incident an “inflection point” * Carnival shares down 0.2 percent (Reuters) – A Carnival Cruise Lines ship with 5,600 passengers and crew was stuck at a Caribbean port with equipment trouble on
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