A tanker holding 1,3 million barrels of petroleum is listing — which could spark a horrific oil spill. In the Gulf of Paria, a Venezuelan oil tanker holding about 80 million gallons of oil was parked for nearly 2 years. New images reveal that the ship is heavily listed on its side — which adds…
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Maritime Leaders Reimagine Global Seaborne Trade For A More Resilient, Sustainable, And Fair Global Economy. Transparency, cross-value chain collaboration, and public-private partnerships will be crucial to rebuilding the world economy post COVID-19 while addressing long-term challenges such as the climate crisis. Finding a new way forward for global seaborne trade was at the focus of…
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The International Maritime Organization ( IMO) struggled on 16 October to restore its website to the UN agency’s website that is constantly interrupted. The IMO website has been hacked 17 days ago and for 48 hours many IT devices of the organization have been shut down. “The interruption of web-based services was caused by a…
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Yesterday at the Colombo High Court, the Greek master of the heavily burned New Diamond VLCC had been fined 65,000$. The captain Sterio Ilias committed two allegations of the oil spill caused by the fire in the ship which killed a sailor last months and a lack of reporting of fire against the Marine Environment…
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China Ocean Shipping Company or COSCO, a large Chinese freight forwarder. Launched this cargo ship “H1416”, one of the world’s largest freighter built by the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipyard. Watch the clip below! Chinese shipping company launched “H1416”, one of the world’s largest ocean liner. The ship will sail on routes between Asia and Europe. This will be part…
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Building battery confidence: Project unites stakeholders around battery fire facts. This project invited players from the entire value chain to examine relevant safety aspects of marine batteries” says Henrik Helgesen, Project Manager of the JDP and Senior Consultant at DNV GL. “It was the ideal setting to develop common guidelines and build trust in the…
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People may be forgiven for thinking that the last seven days was a slow news week, as the biggest headline grabber was the two-minute appearance of a fly on the head of US Vice President Mike Pence. This has launched a flurry of activity with Jim Carrey playing the fly on SNL and cultural articles…
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The country is now seeking to be included in the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) “White List,” which will allow Filipino seafarers greater mobility abroad during the Covid-19 crisis. Last month, the National Tripartite Industrial Peace Council (NTIPC) issued Resolution No. 3, series of 2020, which endorsed the Philippines’s application for inclusion in the list for…
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Seafarers are blank, old house This was a question of course for MLC, 2006. Seafarers are blank. The result of a “red rage” may be any technical history of a seafarer except an experienced one which is awkward for a shipowner. No blacklist is widely agreed, but where the seamen for some reason have not…
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From September 3 of this year to the present day, the Star Balboa tanker’s crew was detained in Trinidad and Tobago. The following activities are involved: drug trafficking, ammunition smugglers, and trafficking in women by municipal authorities who are accused of seafarers. 17 tanker crew-eight Panamanians and the remaining three seafarers of other nationalities-are in…
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