EU initiative for the Gulf of Aden
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The European Union (EUNAVFOR ATALANTA) is initiating a ‘Close Support Protection’ system for vessels transiting the Gulf of Aden.
EUNAVFOR had requested all owners / operators requiring the close protection to register on the Maritime Security Centre - Horn of Africa (MSC-HOA) website: www.mschoa.org
Please see below the initial guidlines aa released by EUNAVFOR
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INITIAL GUIDANCE TO THE [...]
ITF: New piracy high risk area agreed
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Maritime unions and shipowners have reached an agreement to extend the piracy high risk area to cover the entire Gulf of Aden. The designated high risk area previously only covered part of the Gulf of Aden. Members of the International Bargaining Forum (IBF), reached the agreement following a full meeting of the negotiating body in [...]
Suez traffic not affected
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Egypt denied that international shippers were avoiding the country’s Suez Canal, the waterway that carried a tenth of the global seaborne trade in 2007, after an escalation in piracy off east Africa. ‘We have not been notified by any shipping company that they are re-routing away from the Suez Canal because of the Somali piracy,’ [...]
IBF Extends “High Risk Area” In The Gulf
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Following a full meeting of the IBF in Hong Kong on Friday 21 November and subsequent correspondence, the International Bargaining Forum have agreed to extend the “high risk area” to cover the entire Gulf of Aden*, backdated to 21 November at midnight. The expansion has been agreed because of the number of attacks which had [...]
Indian Maritime University ties up with global schools, IIMs for courses
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Chennai, Nov. 25 The newly formed Indian Maritime University (IMU) has tied up with five international institutions and with the IIMs in Ahmedabad and Bangalore to offer various maritime-related courses.
IMU has tied up with Dalian Maritime University (for MBA in port management), with Shanghai Maritime University and Antwerp University (for MBA in international [...]
Exxon Valdez Put to Rest
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The most anticipated maritime law decision in recent years has been the decision in June 2008 by the U.S. Supreme Court that reduced the award of punitive damages against Exxon from $2.5 billion to $500 million. After nearly 20 years of litigation against Exxon and the captain of its vessel, the case is finally at [...]
Developed Countries Push Back Vs. Pirates
Rich nations come together on joint action after Somali pirates seize ship laden with tanks.
Armed pirates aboard fast-moving skiffs have increasingly turned the shipping lanes off Somalia into a lucrative hunting grounds: commandeering vessels large and small and leaving the world’s maritime powers frustrated about how to stop the seafaring bandits.
Now, however, momentum is growing [...]
RINA LAUNCHES NEW GREEN PLUS CLASS NOTATION
ITALY-based classification society Rina has launched a new goal-based class notation, Green Plus. The voluntary notation will be based on an environmental performance index which covers all aspects of the vessel’s impact on the environment, including carbon emissions.
Rina’s Green Star notation already anticipates the requirements of MARPOL and other relevant legislation. Now, Rina says, the [...]
‘Tighten ship cargo rules’ call
Accident investigators have called for hazardous cargo on ships to be more tightly regulated following the deaths of two seamen in the Channel.
The pair suffocated when oxygen levels dropped in a storage area of their vessel, the Sava Lake, in the Straits of Dover in January this year.
The Latvian-registered vessel was transporting ferrous metal turnings.
A [...]
ILO to consider new guidelines on ship inspection under 2006 Maritime Labour Convention
GENEVA (ILO News) ─ More than 300 senior representatives of seafarers and shipowners, along with governments, are to meet here between 15 and 26 September to discuss guidelines on flag-state and port-state inspection on board of ships under the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC) adopted by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in 2006.
The MLC, 2006 consolidates [...]
