The wreck of the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia is still lying just off the island of Giglio, where it was grounded a year ago. On Sunday January 13th a year after the disaster, sirens rang out from the wreckage place in memory of the 32 people who died. The families and friends of the [...]
A car carrier is sinking in the North Sea after colliding with a containership some 40-50 km from the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Wednesday evening, Reuters reports referring to the statement of Dutch coastguard. Bahamian flagged car carrier Baltic Ace, and the Corvus J, a container ship from Cyprus collided in an important North [...]
After four months at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY), Sailors from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) are headed back out to sea after successfully completing a short-term upgrade and maintenance period, Dec. 1. The ship’s planned incremental availability (PIA) is key in keeping the ship in top shape for its upcoming work-ups, [...]
Five personnel were safely brought back to Wells on the personnel transfer vessel Island Panther on Wednesday night after the vessel was involved in a collision in the field with a transition piece. Immediately after the incident the Coastguard was alerted and lifeboats from Wells and Cromer were directed to meet the vessel. The vessel [...]
Today (27 September 2012) marks the 35th celebration of World Maritime Day. This year’s theme is: “IMO: One hundred years after the Titanic”, a theme chosen by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to reflect on the safety of passenger shipping today, and into the future, on the centenary anniversary of the Titanic disaster. In his [...]
NAVTOR today announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with the UKHO (United Kingdom Hydrographic Office) for the supply of the Admiralty Vector Chart Service for the global professional maritime market. NAVTOR will also offer the total package of Admiralty Digital Publications as a part of the agreement. “NAVTOR employees have extensive experience in [...]
The new class of 144-car Washington state ferries currently under construction will be named after a beloved Washington landmark, the Olympics. The winning name, Olympic, was selected by Transportation Secretary Paula Hammond after a contest among Washington State Department of Transportation employees resulted in more than 130 submissions. “I loved the mountain range theme,” said [...]
MV Carrier’s owner, Reederei Erwin Strahlmann, has declared the vessel a constructive total loss and it will be scraped after oil removal operations end. By now about 20, 000 litres of fuel have been removed from grounded vessel and about 4,000 litres more are yet to be removed. The oil removal operation is taking place [...]
A luxury 11-deck cruise ship, Azamara Quest, managed to arrive safely into Sandakan port, in Borneo island- Malaysia, under the guidance of an escort flotilla of U.S. and Philippines Navy vessels on Sunday after 8.30 pm (1230 GMT), Reuters informs. The ship was drifting off its course into unsafe waters, infested by pirates and [...]
Despite greatly improved safety records in the century since Titanic, the maritime industry faces new challenges driven by the continued growth of worldwide shipping, specialist marine insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has advised. In the 100 years since the sinking of the Titanic, the world commercial shipping fleet has trebled to over 100,000 [...]
