IMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu welcomed his counterparts, Raymond Benjamin, Secretary-General, ICAO, and Kunio Mikuriya, Secretary-General, WCO, to IMO Headquarters on Monday, July 8, where the three considered the further enhancement of collaboration between the Organizations in the fields of aviation, border and maritime security and facilitation. ICAO and the IMO perform their roles as
Read moreThree Somalis were convicted on Monday of piracy, kidnapping and murder in the 2011 shooting deaths of four Americans sailing in the Indian Ocean off of Oman and could face the death penalty, according to court documents. The three men – and eleven others who previously pleaded guilty – boarded the Americans’ yacht armed
Read moreThe Coast Guard and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement are responding to a loss of well control event at Ship Shoal Block 225 Platform B, a natural gas and crude oil platform located approximately 74 miles southwest of Port Fourchon, Tuesday. The Coast Guard and BSEE received a report from Energy Resources Technology
Read moreLast week, issue of logistic stagnation at Tanjung Priok port came up to the surface. Following the problems faced by customers of Indonesian largest port in processing export import documents that led to long queue. Indonesia Bisnis Daily, over the last week highlighted the problems faced by port’s users. The point is Tanjung Priok
Read moreIMO Secretary-General Koji Sekimizu met with the new Chairman of IACS, Roberto Cazzulo, Chairman of RINA Services. Mr. Sekimizu congratulated Mr. Cazzulo on his appointment and expressed his appreciation to IACS for its long and ongoing support of IMO’s work on maritime safety, security and the prevention of marine pollution by ships and stated
Read moreThe Coast Guard, Port Arthur Fire Department and Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department are searching for a 56-year-old man after a collision occurred between the tug and barge Father Seelos and the missing man’s pleasure craft about 500 feet west of Goat Island in Sabine Lake, Sunday. Missing is John Tran of Bridge City, Texas.
Read moreUpdate: At least four foreign crew members and seven Somali pirates died in the incident, and 13 others were missing, a pirate who works with the gang said. “The ship has been gradually sinking for almost a week, but it sank totally last night,” the pirate said on Monday by telephone from Haradheere, Somalia’s
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