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Animating 70 years of better shipping for a better future

July 20, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments

70 years of helping international shipping become safer, more secure and develop a greener environmental footprint – that’s what IMO is celebrating in 2018, with a series of events and commemorative productions being released throughout the year. The latest is a short animated film which shows how IMO has developed mandatory international regulations covering almost […]

Norway Rig Owners Consider Lockout to Try to Break Strike

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

Photo: By corlaffra / Shutterstock Owners of Norwegian oil rigs are considering imposing a lockout on workers as a high-stakes gamble to try to end a strike by almost 1,600 staff that began last week. A lockout would involve preventing staff from accessing installations until a deal is struck. It could prompt the government to try […]

Considerations on the safety of 2020 fuel blends addressed at IMO meeting

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

Confusion about whether the existing ISO 8217 marine fuel quality standard will cover fuel blends produced to meet the 0.50% Sulphur limit has, hopefully, been cleared up at last week’s meeting at the International Maritime Organization. Concerns about the safety of fuel blends complying with the upcoming 0.50% Sulphur limit were on the agenda for […]

ReCAAP: Piracy Incident Reported in First Half of 2018 at Lowest Level in 10 Years

July 19, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Piracy / 0 comments

By Avigator Thailand / Shutterstock The number of maritime piracy incidents reported to the ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre in the first half of 2018 fell to its lowest number in the past 10 years, the agency reported Tuesday. From January to June 2018, ReCAAP had a total of 40 incidents reported, of which 29 were […]

Ghana To Create Bunker Zones to Regulate Liquid Cargo Business

July 17, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments

Mr Boakye Kyeremanteng Agyarko, Minister of Energy says Ghana is preparing to create a designated Ship-to-Ship and Bunker zones outside Tema and Takoradi Ports to regulate and safeguard the country’s liquid cargo business. According to the Minister, the Bunker Zones which would include; both anchor and drifting zones, would ensure a drastic reduction in the […]

Container ship fire, Singapore

July 17, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments

Fire erupted in upper decks of superstructure of container ship SALAM MESRA, anchored off Marina Barrage, Singapore, at around 1510 LT (UTC +8) Jul 16. Singapore Civil Defense Force (SCDF) firefighters and 4 boats were deployed, it took them some 5 hours to bring fire under control. At around 2200 LT firefighters reportedly, were cooling off […]

Tanker Fire under Control in Gadani

July 16, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments

A fire which broke out on board an oil tanker at a ship breaking yard in Gadani, Pakistan, on July 16, has been put under control. Pakistani authorities have managed to evacuate the workers and there are no casualties reported, a spokesperson of NGO Shipbreaking Platform told World Maritime News. Although several workers remained trapped on […]

Have you remembered to fit compliant firefighters’ radios onboard?

July 16, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments

All vessels must now carry onboard a minimum of two two-way portable radio telephone apparatus for each team of firefighters. The radios must be certified for use in potentially explosive atmospheres and should otherwise be fit for purpose for crew wearing firefighter’s outfits. The new SOLAS regulation II-2/10.4 requirement for the carriage of at least […]

10 Missing after Cargo Ship Sinks off Shanghai

July 16, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments

Image by MAREX Ten mariners are reported missing following a collision between a tanker identified as Yong An and general cargo ship Shun Qiang 2, which sank taking down 13 members of its crew with it. The collision occurred on July 15, near Shanghai. Three people have been rescued, Xinhua reported citing information from the Shanghai […]

Thailand suspends salvage effort in boat disaster

July 13, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments

Thailand suspended efforts on Thursday to salvage a boat that capsized and sank off its resort island of Phuket, officials said, putting the death toll in its worst tourist-related disaster in years at 46. The Phoenix had 101 on board, including 89 tourists, all but two of them from China, when it went down in […]

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