Draft guidelines on the preservation and collection of evidence following an allegation of a serious crime having taken place on board a ship, or following a report of a missing person from a ship, and on pastoral and medical care of victims were approved by the Legal Committee of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), when [...]
Latest monthly figures show that there were four new detentions of foreign flagged vessels in UK ports during March 2013 after failing Port State Control (PSC) inspection. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced today that eight foreign flagged ships were under detention in UK ports during March 2013 after failing Port State Control (PSC) [...]
Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL), Union Territory of Lakshadweep (UTL) and Lakshadweep Development Corporation Limited (LDCL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding, April 12, for repairs of ships owned by UTL . Honorable Shri G K Vasan, Union Minister for Shipping, Shri Hamdullah Sayeed, Honorable Member of Parliament, Lakshadweep, Shri Pradeep Kumar Sinha, IAS, Secretary (Shipping ), [...]
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The consortium LNG for Short Sea Shipping has selected eight ships for the application of LNG as a transport fuel. The selection took place in close co-operation between the consortium partners. Both new designs, new buildings as well as existing ships of Wagenborg Shipping, Damen Shipyards Bergum, Meyer Werft en Conoship International were selected. The [...]
Military Sealift Command-chartered ships concluded cargo operations April 2 in Port Hueneme, Calif., for Operation Deep Freeze, the annual Joint Task Force Support for Antarctica. MSC-chartered container ship MV Ocean Giant arrived in Port Hueneme March 27 and began offloading more than 500 pieces of cargo. The cargo included containers filled with retrograde materials such [...]
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Salvors, said the President of the International Salvage Union Andreas Tsavliris, “are innovators and problems solvers and don’t walk away from a challenge”. But the difficulties which may be encountered with giant ships, he warned, “may be beyond problem solving”. At the annual ISU Associate Members’ Day in London last week, it was reported that [...]
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Lloyd’s Register has published a new guide, Asbestos on ships – how to manage it safely, to help shipowners, operators and all stakeholders understand how to deal with asbestos on ships and to support compliance with maritime asbestos regulations which, since 2002, have widely prohibited the continued use of asbestos. Asbestos remains a problem in [...]
Now, it is possible for Danish ships engaged on international voyages to be surveyed and certified in accordance with the Maritime Labour Convention. On 20 August 2013, the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) enters into force. This means that, from this date, all Danish ships with a gross tonnage above 500 must hold a certificate in [...]
Vessel-naming ceremonies for Shansi and Shantung, the first two of eight S31 Class multi-purpose ships, were greeted by fireworks and traditional lion dances at Zhejiang Ouhua Shipbuilding’s Ouhua shipyard in Zhoushan, China. The vessels will be delivered to the China Navigation Company (CNCo) in 2015 and CNCo’s Chairman Barnaby Swire thanked the yard, CNCo’s site [...]
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The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) announced on March 20 that eleven foreign flagged ships were under detention in UK ports during February 2013 after failing Port State Control (PSC) inspection. The latest monthly figures show that there were three new detentions of foreign flagged vessels in UK ports during February 2013 and eight vessels [...]
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