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 [...]
IMO publishes new IMDG Code (2008 Edition)
imo
A new edition of the International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) Code, the standard guide to all aspects of handling dangerous goods and marine pollutants in sea transport, has been published by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in hard copy, as a download and [...]
Weekly Piracy Report (18 - 24 November 2008)
Suspicious crafts
None reported
Recently reported incidents
20.11.2008: 0200 LT: Tema roads, Ghana.
Eight robbers armed with long knives boarded a container ship at anchor via the anchor chain. They took hostage two duty-crew, tied them up and robbed them. They then stole ship’s equipment and stores. The duty officer, from the bridge, called the duty crew several times [...]
Captain Derek Kruger Experience while passing Somalia coast.
pirate-with-radio
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 [...]
Ship capsizes off Macau; all 17 crew members missing
SEOUL: All 17 crewmen on a South Korean freighter are missing after their ship capsized off the Chinese territory of Macau on Wednesday, South Korea’s coastguard said.
“A Chinese rescue ship, backed by an airplane, is involved in a search operation but they have had no luck yet,” a spokesman said.
“The ship lost [...]
Portland Ferry Passengers Safely Evacuated.
Ninety-six passengers were evacuated from a Portland-based ferry that ran aground about half a mile southeast of Basket Island, off the coast of Maine last week..
There were no reports of pollution or injuries to the 96 passengers and three crew aboard.
The Bay Mist refloated with the incoming tide around 3:15 a.m., and an inspection of [...]
