General Average has been declared for the ZIM Charleston (IMO 9461506) containership following a fire in stacks of containers that broke out on August 7th or 8th (IMN, August 18th). A fire was detected aboard the 8,500 teu ship suffered a fire in Cargo Hold 4 while it was underway off of Colombo,...
In an update on the impact of the strike by workers at Felixstowe, the UK’s largest container port, Christian Roeloffs, cofounder and CEO, of Container xChange said that the strikes had forced carriers to re-route cargo and cancel port calls. The threat of industrial action at the port of Liverpool...
Further details have become available on the incident reported in IMN yesterday about a collision between a cargo ship and a bulk carrier in Sabine Pass, near Port Arthur, Texas, USA. General cargo ship Damgracht (IMO 9420784) was inbound from Italy transporting a cargo of cement. The 2009-built...
Salvors have recovered two tugs from the Mersey River in Devonport, Northwest Tasmania, Australia. The two tugs sank after being hit by cement carrier Goliath (IMO 9036430) in January (IMN January 31st 2022). New South Wales based United Salvage engaged AAL Shipping to supply the 31,000 dwt heavy...
Several cities in southern China raised their cyclone warning signals on Wednesday August 24th as Tropical Storm Ma-on headed for the coast of Guangdong province, where it as expected to make landfall on Thursday. At 12:40 local time the Hong Kong Observatory issued a strong wind advisory. The...
Older tankers are being deployed to carry Russian oil to China and India. Since May at least four tankers that are 15 years or older have joined the pool of vessels delivering Russian oil from Kozmino since May, reported Bloomberg, citing shipbrokers who asked not to be identified. Kozmino usually...
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Offshore support vessel Geoquip Elena (IMO 9249439) suffered a fire in engine No.2 turbo charger on August 18th with the engine being fully destroyed. The vessel was en route from Mobile, Alabama, USA to Den Heldar, Netherlands, with 16 crew members on board at the time, and was 3.7nm southwest off...
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A total of 33 cargo ships carrying just under 720,000 tonnes of foodstuffs have left Ukraine under the deal between Russia and Ukraine last month that was brokered by the UN and Turkey, the Ukrainian agriculture ministry said on Tuesday August 23rd. The Joint Coordination Centre in Turkey, which is...
In 2021 the number of cases of crew abandonment continued to rise, possibly due to the strains on the industry during the pandemic, the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and charitable organization Stella Maris have reported. The ITF and Stella Mariss said that, with the increased...
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Fire erupted in the front half of general cargo (heavy lift) ship Happy Rover (IMO 9139309) early in the morning of August 21st while it was dry docked and undergoing repairs, including some hot work, at Schiedam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.. The ship had arrived at Rotterdam from Canada on August 8th....
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