June 19, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments
Image Courtesy: Ocean Affairs Council One of two tankers that ran aground off Kaohsiung, Taiwan last week, split in two in the morning hours of June 18. According to Taiwan’s Maritime and Port Bureau (MOTC), the tankers were not loaded with cargo at the time, however, they jointly had around 200 metric meters of oil on […]
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Shipping Industry Launches New Security Resources for World Fleet
June 29, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Safety / 0 comments
International shipping industry organizations, with military support, have launched a new website dedicated to providing comprehensive maritime security guidance to companies and mariners. Launched yesterday, the new website www.maritimeglobalsecurity.org provides security-related guidance produced by the industry as well as links to other useful maritime and military security resources. […]
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Libyan Coastguard: 100 migrants May Have Drowned near Tripol
June 29, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments
Around 100 people are thought to have drowned from a migrant boat off Libya’s western coast, a coastguard official said on Friday. The coastguard picked up 14 survivors from the boat just east of the capital, Tripoli, the official said. Separately, the coastguard said it had intercepted 200 migrants from two other migrant boats east […]
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Survey: Shippers More Dissatisfied with Carriers’ Service Quality
June 28, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments
Image Courtesy: Pixabay under CC0 Creative Commons license The level of customers’ satisfaction with the service quality of container shipping companies has dropped since 2016, according to the shipper satisfaction survey conducted by Drewry and the European Shippers’ Council (ESC). And now, the exporters, importers and freight forwarders see the service quality as more problematic, […]
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Benmarine Services Wins 3 Prestigious Awards at the 2018 Ghana Shippers Awards
June 25, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments
The second edition of the Ghana Shippers Awards was held to celebrate individuals and companies that are playing a significant role in the growth and development of the Ghanaian shipping industry. The awards seek to recognize shipping companies which have effectively and efficiently managed Ghana’s commercial shipping and to protect and promote the interests of […]
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Day of the Seafarer: Mental Well-being in Focus
June 25, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments
Illustration. Image Courtesy: Pexels under CC0 Creative Commons license Today, once again, marks the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Day of the Seafarer, focused this year on seafarer wellbeing. 2017 and 2018 have seen strong momentum in the industry to address seafarer wellbeing, especially their mental health. This year’s campaign is centered around specific strategies to […]
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Oil jumps 4 percent on modest OPEC output increase
June 22, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments
Oil prices jumped more than 4 percent on Friday after major producers agreed to modest crude output increases to compensate for losses in production at a time of rising global demand. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and other top crude producers, meeting in Vienna, agreed to raise output from July by about 1 […]
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East Libyan forces advance to retake oil ports
June 21, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments
East Libyan forces said on Thursday they had retaken the shuttered oil ports of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf, hours after clashes resumed south of Ras Lanuf during a counter-attack by rival factions. Staff were evacuated from terminals in Libya’s eastern oil crescent and exports were suspended last Thursday when armed opponents of eastern-based military […]
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Grounded Tanker Splits in Two off Taiwan
June 19, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments
Image Courtesy: Ocean Affairs Council One of two tankers that ran aground off Kaohsiung, Taiwan last week, split in two in the morning hours of June 18. According to Taiwan’s Maritime and Port Bureau (MOTC), the tankers were not loaded with cargo at the time, however, they jointly had around 200 metric meters of oil on […]
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Storage tank at Libya’s Ras Lanuf oil port has collapsed: oil workers
June 19, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments
One of two oil storage tanks ignited amid clashes at the Libyan oil port of Ras Lanuf has collapsed after burning for several days, a local engineer and a fire fighter said on Tuesday. Ras Lanuf’s storage tank No. 2 was set on fire on Sunday, three days after another storage tank, No. 12 caught […]
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Burning Cargo Ship Anchored off Kolkata
June 19, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments
Image Courtesy: Indian Navy Indian naval forces managed to drop an anchor from the ill-fated merchant vessel SSL Kolkata on June 16, only days after the ship caught fire off Sandheads, Kolkata. A helicopter crew winched down one officer aboard the vessel, which was adrift off the Sagar Island at the mouth of the Ganges Delta, India’s […]
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