07 JUNE 2021 The Sri Lankan Navy has recovered the voyage data recorder (VDR) from the wreck of the container ship X-Press Pearl, which partially sank last week after a devastating cargo fire off the coast of Colombo. The X-Press Pearl was anchored before and during the fire, and her crew was evacuated from …
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06 JUNE 2021 In mid-May 2021, after understandable delays related to COVID-19, the Maritime Safety Committee finalized its regulatory scoping exercise (RSE) on Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships. By no means the only voice to be heard, given that other IMO committees have their own scoping exercises, MSC 103/WP.8 nonetheless offers …
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05 JUNE 2021 A vessel reported to be the largest in the Iranian Navy caught fire and sunk in the Gulf of Oman near Iran’s southern port of Jask. The supply ship Khark was reportedly operating a training exercise in international waters not far from the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian Navy …
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04 JUNE 2021 The burnout-out containership X-Press Pearl is continuing to slowly settle to the bottom off Sri Lanka with the salvage and firefighting teams continuing to monitor the situation while the investigation into the disaster continues. The owners of their vessel also apologized for the disaster while defending the …
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04 JUNE 2021 On May 7, a pipeline system carrying almost half the fuel used on the east coast of the United States was crippled by a major cyber attack. The five-day shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline resulted in widespread fuel shortages and panic-buying as Virginia, North Carolina and Florida …
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03 JUNE 2021 The global maritime community is calling for enhanced efforts to tackle the rising menace of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea with the adoption of new IMO resolutions on increased collaboration. The resolutions adopted at a meeting of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) safety committee are centered …
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