Missing General Cargo Ship over 25 years of age in Black Sea.
A General Cargo vessel, flag - foreign, GRT- 3009t, built in 1982, owned and managed by foreign shipping company completed loading of steel billets on 16.02. 2008 in one of the foreign ports in [...]
HELCOM report shows sharp decrease in ship collisions in the Baltic
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While every year there are more and more ships plying the waters of the Baltic Sea, the occurrence of ship-to-ship collisions, one of the most serious types of accidents at sea, has decreased sharply since 2005, especially in such a busy traffic area like the Gulf of Finland, according to the latest HELCOM study. Analysis [...]
Captain Derek Kruger Experience while passing Somalia coast.
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Dear Reader;
I am one of the very few that has out foxed the Somalia Pirates. During the Month of August of 1997 on or about, I was delivering a ship belonged to my former company in Quebec Canada “Transport Desgagnes”to Madagascar when off the horn of Africa (Somalia) we experienced a storm. I [...]
MAIB Report on the investigation of Young Lady dragging anchor 5 miles east of Teesport and snagging the CATS gas pipeline, resulting in material damage to the pipe
A large vessel, dragging her anchor in heavy weather, dislodged a strategic pipeline carrying gas into the United Kingdom. Although, in this case, the risk of pollution was avoided, the pipeline was out of action for over 2 months.
At 2200 on 25 June 2007, the tanker Young Lady started to drag her anchor in Tees [...]
