Coast Guard News
April 15, 2020
The strict lockdown measures across South Asia aimed at curbing the COVID-19 pandemic have also shut down the shipbreaking facilities in India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.... [Read More]
April 15, 2020
Around one third of cargo is estimated to have been removed from the grounded Norwegian ship Kaami off the coast of Scotland.
“Salvors have been able to take a further 22 skips full of cargo from the grounded MV Kaami over the Easter weekend,” the UK’s HM Coastguard said in a new update on 14 April. ... [Read More]
April 15, 2020
Belgian tanker shipping company Euronav has sold the eldest vessel in its fleet, the 2001-built Suezmax Cap Diamant for USD 20.8 million.
The tanker owner and operator said that the capital gain on the sale of approximately USD 13 million will be recorded during the current quarter.
The vessel has been delivered to its new owners.
The latest sale has brought the total balance of Euronav’s Suezmax fleet to 25 vessels, including joint ventures. ... [Read More]
April 15, 2020
Multipurpose and heavy-lift shipping is facing numerous uncertainties and is most likely to see a stagnation over the coming period, according to the UK-based consultancy Drewry.
The market outlook is heavily reliant on the timing of the global economic recovery from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nevertheless, several other factors are impacting the market, including the recent oil price drop as well as the increasing competition and the continued encroachment by containers and bulk carriers into the breakbulk and project cargo space.... [Read More]
April 15, 2020
A Hong Kong-flagged vessel was boarded by unidentified armed men in the Gulf of Oman and taken into Iranian waters on 14 April.
The attack occurred some 50 nautical miles northeast of the UAE’s Port of Fujairah / 47 nautical miles northwest of the Iranian Port of Bandar e-Jask, maritime intelligence firm Dryad Global informed. ... [Read More]
April 14, 2020
Singapore’s container shipping company Pacific International Lines (PIL) has issued a statement to quash the bankruptcy rumours circulating on social media dubbing them as fake news.
“PIL reserves the right to pursue legal actions against those who generate and spread these defamatory rumours during this COVID-19 pandemic period and related false information after this statement,” the company said. ... [Read More]
April 14, 2020
RoRo & RoPax tonnage provider Stena RoRo has reached out to authorities in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Germany offering its vessel Stena Saga to be used as a hospital ship.
The large vehicle and passenger vessel was transferred by Stena Line to its sister company Stena RoRO following the closure of the Oslo-Frefrikshamn’s route due to the coronavirus and travel restrictions. ... [Read More]
April 14, 2020
Finnish technology company Wärtsilä, Swedish ferry company Stena Line, and Canadian supplier of methanol Methanex Corporation have marked five years of the successful operation of the methanol-fuelled ferry Stena Germanica. ... [Read More]
April 14, 2020
Pirates boarded 37 ships and kidnapped 22 seafarers in the first quarter of 2020, the latest report from the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IBM) shows.
In total, the bureau received reports of 47 attacks in the first three months of this year, with the Gulf of Guinea remaining the world’s piracy hot spot.
However, as many incidents remain unreported seafarers are advised to remain vigilant at all times.... [Read More]
April 14, 2020
The Port of Rotterdam is another step closer to becoming a carbon-neutral port in the future, in line with the Paris Climate Agreement objectives.
Together with other companies, the port aims to achieve this goal by implementing three steps. These include efficiency & infrastructure, a new energy system and a new raw materials and fuel system. ... [Read More]
April 14, 2020
The Australian Government has allowed non-cruise maritime crews to carry out crew changes, helping alleviate the crisis seafarers have been faced with amid COVID-19 restrictive measures.... [Read More]
April 14, 2020
Europe’s second-largest port, the Port of Antwerp, finished the first quarter of this year with a total freight volume growth of 4 per cent year over year, feeling only a limited impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
As explained, container volumes in particular made up for the decline in other freight categories such as conventional breakbulk and vehicles.
With an increase of 9.5 per cent in TEU and 9.4 per cent in tonnage, the container trade remains by far the largest segment in the Port of Antwerp. ... [Read More]
April 14, 2020
Saudi Global Ports, one of PSA International’s subsidiaries, and Saudi Ports Authority (Mawani) signed a build, operate and transfer deal for the first and second container terminals in the King Abdulaziz Port in Dammam.
The SAR 7 billion (USD 1.87 billion) deal makes SGP the sole container terminal operator of the deep-water hinterland port.
The deal was closed in a digital transaction due to ongoing circumstances caused by the pandemic.... [Read More]
April 14, 2020
American cruise line Crystal Expedition Cruises, part of Genting Hong Kong, has postponed the launch of its polar-class expedition ship, Crystal Endeavor. ... [Read More]
April 14, 2020
Source: PxHere
Responding to the global demand drop caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, container shipping majors have removed a total of 3 million TEU of capacity from Asia-Europe and Transpacific trades combined, the latest data from Sea-Intelligence shows.... [Read More]
April 13, 2020
The South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) is working with South African Police Services on an investigation into an alleged throwing overboard of two stowaways by the crew of a foreign cargo vessel off South Africa.
SAMSA said that the two men from Tanzania, believed to be stowaways, had reportedly been forcibly removed from a Panama flagged bulk carrier named MV Top Grace, after the vessel sailed off the port of Durban on March 28, 2020. ... [Read More]
April 13, 2020
The Falkland Islands Government has completed and signed a contract with construction and civil engineering company BAM Nuttall for the design and build of a new port in Stanley Harbor.
The contract signing follows the announcement in February 2020 that BAM Nuttall had been selected as a development partner after an extensive global procurement process. ... [Read More]
April 13, 2020
A group of 668 seafarers landed today at an airport in Manilla, the Philippines, breaking the 13,000 figure of repatriated seafarers who were displaced by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The latest wave is the second of three groups planned to arrive today in the country’s capital as part of a massive governmental campaign to return the affected seafarers home.... [Read More]
April 13, 2020
Arne Alexander Wilhelmsen, a founder of Royal Caribbean Cruises died on Saturday, April 11, 2020, in Palma, Spain, at 90-years old.
Wilhelmsen was a constant influence on the company from its founding, serving more than three decades on the company’s board of directors.... [Read More]