A US Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak aircrew, forward-deployed to Cold Bay, medevaced a crew member of fish factor ship Northern Eagle (IMO 6701462) near Dutch Harbor during the morning of January 24th. Watchstanders at the Coast Guard 17th District command centre in Juneau received the initial...
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A severe foreign exchange crisis in Pakistan has begun to hurt the country’s importers, particularly for oil and for containerized freight, according to reports. Pakistan’s national reserves of US dollars were reported to have fallen to less than $4.5b, its lowest level since 2015. A steady outflow...
Crew members on passenger vessel Spirit of Norfolk (IMO 8861618) checked the engine room of the ship every 30 minutes as a safety precaution and had done so shortly before a fire broke out, the captain of the ship testified on Friday January 27th, the second day of a US Coast Guard formal hearing...
A man suffered a fatal fall on container ship Maersk Eindhoven (IMO 9456771) during the afternoon of Wednesday January 25th. The vessel was at the 2500 block of S. Navy Way at the APMT Pier 400 in the Port of Los Angeles at the time. The LA Fire Department was notified at 16:45 local time…
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The Columbia River unit of the US Coast Guard has taken action against fishing vessels that turn off their AIS in order to keep secret the location of their crab pots. Operating “dark” is a common procedure in the Northwest’s coastal fisheries because fishers do not want their rivals to know where...
The death toll after the sinking of general cargo ship Jin Tian (IMO 9578713) in icy waters on January 25th has climbed by two to eight. The dead included six Chinese sailors, according to the Chinese consul general, who was speaking in Fukuoka, Japan, on January 26th. Several Japanese Coast Guard...
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Container ship MOL Treasure (IMO 9773222) broke down in Southampton waters, UK, during the afternoon of January 26th and was being held in position by four tugs between the Fawley refinery and Hamble point. The vessel had departed Southampton that day for the port of Le Havre at 11:30 local time....
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Seabourn Cruise Line has announced that the Seabourn Venture (IMO 9862023) will be going into drydock for repairs to the ship’s stabilizers. As a result the line has had to cancel three cruise holidays, scheduled from April 7th to April 30th. The ship will be taken to T Mariotti shipyard in Genoa,...
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With the February 5th deadline looming for the setting of a price cap on oil products being exported from Russia via ships with any connection to the EU, the European Commission was reported to be considering a $100-a-barrel cap on Russian premium oil products, with $45 being the cap on discounted...
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has announced that it will be revising guidelines from 2014 that apply to commercial ships, with the aim of reducing the level of underwater noise which, it said threatened the survival of some marine species. The draft revisions still need to be...