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 [...]
Security upgrades set to make India�s ports even more costly
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Bangalore: India’s relatively high-cost ports are likely to charge even more as the government takes steps to beef up security following the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
The government is planning to install equipment to scan cargo containers, set up a marine commando force, increase the number of security personnel and buy speedboats to help in search operations.
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Marine Safety Investigation Report - Final Man overboard fatality from the research survey ship Geosounder, 25 August 2007
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At about 0310 on 25 August 2007, while the research ship Geosounder was about 185 miles northeast of Cairns, Australia, en route from New Zealand to Singapore, an off-duty integrated rating (IR) who was skylarking on deck while under the influence of alcohol fell overboard. The crew immediately threw lifebuoys into the water, stopped the [...]
Russian Register of Shipping - Guarantee for quality and safety
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Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) has been awarded a golden medal ‘Guarantee for quality and safety’. RS has become a laureate of National Safety awards and has received a golden medal in the nomination “For the development of technical standards aimed at ensuring safety of offshore oil and gas facilities”. The National Safety awards [...]
2008 IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea presented to Brazilian seafarer
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The 2008 IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea has been presented to a Brazilian seafarer who saved fellow crew members from a dangerous fire on a ship.
Mr. Rodolpho Fonseca da Silva Rigueira, of the drill ship Noble Roger Eason, nominated by the Government of Brazil, for his decisive, selfless action to rescue six fellow [...]
Somali pirates hijack 1 ship, free another
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Somali pirates seized control of a chemical tanker in the Gulf of Aden on Friday and a NATO helicopter gunship, too late to prevent the hijacking, picked up three security guards who jumped into the sea. Both France and Germany, which have ships in the area as part of an international anti-piracy coalition, sent the [...]
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 [...]
Shipping industry urges EU governments to take up arms against Somali pirates
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Abdul Hassan, chief of the pirate group called the ‘Central Regional Coastguard’, carries a rocket-propelled grenade on to a boat with some of his crew. Photograph: Veronique de Viguerie/Getty Images
European shipowners are urging their governments to wage war on Somali pirates and seize vessels by force, the Guardian has learned, amid growing fear that shippers [...]
Use Internet as investigative tool, urges CIB
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The ICC Counterfeiting Intelligence Bureau (CIB) is urging its members to make full use of the Internet as an investigative tool.
It is vital that investigators keep pace with technology, the Bureau says, as a number of recent cases demonstrate. Most notable of these is the battle between illegal downloaders and authorities trying to clamp down [...]
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 [...]
