June, 2018

Australia’s Port Kembla reopens after cargo ship blaze

June 19, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments

A fire in the hold of a bulker ship on Monday briefly closed Australia’s Port Kembla, the second-largest coal export port in New South Wales state, stopping shipping for eight hours. The port was shut soon after the blaze began before dawn on the MV Iron Chieftain as it unloaded dolomite, a mineral used in […]

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Tema Port Project Gets $100 Million Boost

June 18, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments

The Meridian Port Services Limited (MPS) has taken delivery of the first financing package of the required financing to execute the Tema Port expansion project. An amount of $100 million from the $667 million project financing package arranged by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has been received by […]

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Port Kembla suspends operations after a fire on board self-discharging bulk carrier Iron Chieftain

June 18, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments

Caption: More than 100 firefighters battled the blaze at Port Kembla – Images courtesy of Fire and Rescue NSW Operations at Port Kembla have been suspended as firefighters continue to battle a large blaze that broke out on board self-discharging bulk carrier Iron Chieftain in Port Kembla early Monday morning. A large amount of smoke is still coming off the bulk […]

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Yinson in talks for another Nigeria FPSO project

June 14, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments

True to its projections, Malaysia’s Yinson Holdings announced that it has entered negotiations with a Nigerian company to supply a floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit. Yinson said in a stock market announcement that its Yinson Operations & Production West Africa unit had entered into a heads of terms with Nigeria’s First Exploration & […]

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Thai coastal container ship sank, dozens of containers afloat

June 14, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments

River/coastal Thai cargo ship PATHARA MARINE 6 capsized and sank at around 2340 LT (UTC +7) Jun 13 off Ko Si Chang island, while en route from Laem Chabang Port to Bangkok, according to official statement cited by Bangkok Post. 4 crew safe. There were some 70 containers on board, an unknown number reported floating […]

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NSRI Assists Stowaway on Bulker MI Harmony

June 11, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments

A suspected stowaway was discovered aboard the bulk carrier MI Harmony on June 8 while the vessel was docked in the Port of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The 32-year-old male, believed to be from Tanzania, had reportedly fled from the ship’s crew after being discovered and had suffered a fractured left leg while fleeing up a crane […]

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UN WFP Supply Ship Attacked off Hodeidah

June 6, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments

A supply vessel operating as part of the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has been attacked in the Southern Red Sea, Dryad Maritime informed. The vessel, identified as VOS Theia, was attacked by a skiff with six persons on board off Hodeidah, Yemen, on June 4, 2018. At the time of the attack, the 2011-built vessel […]

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