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Tanker with 19 Crew Missing in Piracy-Plagued West African Waters

August 22, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Piracy / 0 comments

MarineTraffic.com A tanker vessel with 19 crew members on board, most of them Georgians, has gone missing in pirate-plagued waters off Gabon in West Africa and no word has been heard from it for a week, the ship’s managers and the crew agency said on Wednesday. Communication was lost with the Panama-registered Pantelena at about […]

Injured Crew Member Medevaced from DHT’s VLCC

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

Illustration/Image Courtesy: Pxhere under Public Domain license An injured crew member of a 332-meter long very large crude carrier (VLCC) DHT Lotus was medevaced on Friday night, August 17, 2018, while the vessel was passing along the South African coast. A 38-year-old Indian crewman had to be medically evacuated to a hospital for an eye […]

Global warming is making oceans so acidic, they may reach the pH they were 14 million years ago

August 20, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Environment / 0 comments

We already know plastic waste leads to a colossal level of marine pollution and threatens the lives and habitats of many animals and plants. We also know sunscreen can bleach coral and destroy whole reefs and that even traces of drugs can tip the hormonal balance of various marine animals. Man is to blame for […]

Arson at Libyan pipeline causes fire, no significant damage – NOC

August 20, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / General Energy News / 0 comments

Libya’s National Oil Corp (NOC) said arson caused a fire next to a station on Libya’s Wafa-Mellitah gas pipeline that was extinguished on Thursday without causing significant damage. The NOC said in a statement the arson was carried out with rocket-propelled grenades, gasoline and burnt car tyres by “unknown criminals”. The pipeline connects Wafa field, […]

Green Shipping: Toward a Clean Future

August 17, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Environment / 0 comments

Photo: SMM The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has announced its targets of cutting greenhouse gas emissions from global shipping in half by the year 2050, and to make ships entirely CO2-neutral before 2100. But long before that, the so-called sulphur cap will take effect: From 2020 all oceangoing ships must run on fuel that contains […]

Kenya to Revive National Shipping Line in Partnership With MSC

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

Ungureanu Catalina Oana / Shutterstock Kenya plans to revive a state-owned shipping line with the help of the Mediterranean Shipping Co., President Uhuru Kenyatta said. The Kenya National Shipping Line, which was established in 1987 and stagnated after years of mismanagement, is “expected to once again become an active participant in international seaborne trade, which […]

TEMA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HOLDS 3RD BI-MONTHLY MEETING

August 15, 2018 / by Sherritta Ablah-Wetsi / Maritime Industry / 0 comments

The Tema Chamber of Commerce has held its 3rd Bi Monthly Meeting to discuss the re-introduction of the Cargo Tracking Notes (CTN) and ways to surmount challenges confronting the modern entrepreneur. The Tema Chamber of Commerce uses its Bi-Monthly Meetings to address challenges, its members face in their operations. This time, issues discussed included the […]

MSC Containership Loses 13 Containers Overboard Off South Africa

August 14, 2018 / by Adelaide Atakora / Safety / 0 comments

The South African Maritime Safety Authority has issued an urgent warning to vessels east of South Africa to be on the lookout for cargo containers that reportedly fell from a containership off the coast of Durban a week ago. According to SAMSA, a total 13 containers were reportedly lost overboard from the MSC Chloe on […]

SAMSA: MSC Boxship Loses 13 Containers off Durban, South Africa

August 13, 2018 / by Adelaide Atakora / Safety / 0 comments

A containership operated by Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has reportedly lost a number of containers while sailing between Port Elizabeth and Durban, South Africa. As informed, a total of thirteen containers fell off the 9,411 TEU boxship MSC Chloe while the vessel was some 22 nautical miles off Durban in the evening hours of August […]

Port of Antwerp Hit by Fire

August 13, 2018 / by Adelaide Atakora / Safety / 0 comments

A smoldering fire erupted in a consignment of 5,000 tonnes of nickel oxide in a warehouse at the Port of Antwerp on August 11, causing the port authority to evacuate seagoing vessels in the vicinity. The fire broke out on Saturday evening in a 6,000 m² warehouse on the Emdenweg, Leopold Dok, Antwerp’s bulk terminal, […]

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