Oil Cargo Hose Snapped Spilling Palm Oil into a River
A moving tanker’s anchor entangled with a berthed vessel mooring ropes which ripped apart the pipes causing the oil leak into the river at Chittagong port.A tanker vessel of the Bangladesh Shipping Corporation berthed...
Baltic Dry Index – How Low Can It Go & How Long Can It...
How Low? :
The Baltic Dry Index ended Friday 29 January at 317, which is never been seen before level.Recent deals suggest that shipowners are not collecting enough money to pay for the running of...
The Defiance: A Sailing Ship Frozen In Time
Lake Huron is host to hundreds of sunken vessels, some of them quite historic. The wrecks in these waters are extremely well preserved due to the cold, fresh water conditions.On October 20, 1854, the...
A Ferry Collided With a Cargo Ship Off Livorno
Accident type
: CollisionVessels involved
: A passenger ferry and a cargo ship.Reason identified
: Bad weather and strong windLocation
: Livorno outer anchorage in ItalyA passenger ferry en route from Cagliari to Livorno faced an engine failure...
‘Half-Baked’ Container Ships Find Work In Wind Power Sector
Siemens’ Wind Power & Renewables Division will save 20% in transportation costs by using two uncompleted container ships to serve as specialized carriers of offshore wind turbines.The specialized ships will allow heavy components to...
[Update] Modern Express -May Hit Coast By Tuesday
A specialised team along with a Spanish tug tried to tow the cargo ship near Gironde coast, but was unsuccessful because of bad weather on Friday (January 29), the maritime prefecture of the Atlantic...
81 Year Old Captain Convicted in 81,000 dwt Tanker Prestige Case
Spain’s Supreme Court has issued verdict of two-years jail for the Master of the tanker which sank off Spain’s northwestern coast in 2002.According to a statement issued by the Court, Apostolos Mangouras, Captain of...
Legendary Principal Dies Saving Children
Indianapolis’s Amy Beverland Elementary school principal died in a road accident.Susan Jordan principal of Indianapolis’s Amy Beverland Elementary was a legendary women who always kept children first. She was the one behind the school’s...
‘Superman’ Saves Distress Woman In Gloucestershire
A man in Superman attire saved a woman from being robbed.Fundraiser Antonio Cortes, 32, wore the superhero outfit as a part of his job working for social enterprise Give A Smile UK which raises...
[Watch] Fisherman Being Medevaced By The Coast Guards
A 43-year-old fisherman faced breathing problems and numbness of his extremities while fishing 75 miles southeast of Cape May. Watchstanders in Philadelphia received the initial reports around 8:30 a.m. and dispatched a helicopter crew...