Intoxication Onboard Tanker Off Shenzhen Kills Two
Two dead and one seriously injured from asphyxiation following a jet fuel vapor leak.Accident
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Gas leak and intoxicationVessel involved
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Zhoushan-registered 2,000dwt oil tanker Jin Wang You 9Enroute
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Huizhou to ShenzhenLoad carried
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2000 tons of jet fuelCasualties
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Two dead and...
Hempaguard Coating- Successful Over 350 Vessels
Following IMOs stringent rules and regulations for Mandatory Ship Energy Efficiency Management Plans ( SEEMP), Hempel introduced Hempaguard, an antifouling agent for vessel coating. The product that underwent a 5-year research and development stage...
How About Addressing Oneself in Third Person?
Some persons have the penchant for addressing themselves in third person. One such is the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who is very prolific in his use of the third person.
Psychotherapist Kim Schneiderman...
Suez Canal: Ships of Varying Sizes Traverse in New Waterway
A record of 1356 ships have crossed the New Suez Canal within a month as a result of new, widened and renovated waterway, which was inaugurated on 6th August 2015.
Ships of varying tonnage and sizes...
Blending-on-Board (BOB), Latest in Maersk Fluid Technology
BoB stands for ‘SEA-Mate Blending-on-Board’ and is the brainchild of Maersk Fluid Technology. The core product is a small machine that can reduce the cost of lubricant for the Maersk fleet. Usage of this...
OYO Rooms: India’s Largest Hotel Network
A nightmare of checking into a hotel made 18-year-old college dropout Ritesh Agarwal four years later, the CEO of Oyo rooms, a network of 1000 hotels operating in 35 cities across India. The monthly...
Fall From a Low-rise Stepping Platform Turns Fatal
Summary of the accident:
A bosun was cleansing the hatch coaming of a cargo hold, he fell from a low-rise stepping platform and died.The bosun was standing on a stepping platform that was 0.85 meters...
Explosion At Chittagong Ship Breaking Yard Injures Eight
Accident
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Explosion.Date
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6th September 2015.Location
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Shital Enterprise scrap yard in Chittagong, Bangladesh.Casualties
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8 injured.The scrap yard in Chittagong exploded due to leak in a gas cylinder. The reports state that the leak had enclosed the area with gas...
Passenger Vessel Runs Aground With 150 People On Board
Vessel Name
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Binh Thuan-16Incident
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Ship agroundDate
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Saturday, 5th September 2015Location
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Phan Thiet, VietnamCasualties
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No injuries or deathIt was on Saturday, 5th September 2015, when the 41m long Binh Thuan-16 a passenger cum cargo vessel, underway with about 150 passengers, ran aground...
[Watch] The World’s Vessel Traffic from Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMG1SdeYLFE&feature=youtu.be
Fleetmon along with its partner Luxspace has provided an impressive video enabling us to watch the movement of the ships globally. This view is made possible through satellite AIS technology, combining high-resolution terrestrial and...