04 FEB 2020  Australia’s Federal Court has issued an interim injunction banning wharfies from undertaking industrial action as part of their fight for a new workplace agreement. The court order prevents more than 1,800 workers employed at DP World Australia container terminals in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Fremantle from taking …

03 FEB 2020 The fire on board the VLCC Zoha 1 on Wednesday evening claimed the lives of two seafarers and injured eight others, according to Indian officials. The Zoha 1 caught fire about 20 miles off the coast of Sharjah, UAE on Wednesday, sending up a plume of smoke visible from the city’s …

03 FEB 2020 Okokrim, Norway’s environmental and economic crimes agency, has raided the offices of Teekay Shipping Norway AS to gather evidence on the scrapping of a tanker at an Indian shipbreaking yard.  The Teekay shuttle tanker Navion Britannia was beached at R.L. Kalthia Shipbreaking in Alang, India in 2018. Her demolition …

STARTING OF PORT OF CHALNA AFTER INDEPENDENCE OF BANGLADESH.  Port of Chalna was established on December 11, 1954 at Chalna, about 11 miles upstream of Mongla and named Chalna Anchorage. It was administered by the Central Government of Pakistan. In December 1971, there were six Pilots in addition to Harbour …

02 FEB 2020 Hydrocarbon gases bubbling from the bottom of the Red Sea are polluting the atmosphere at a rate equivalent to the emissions of some large fossil fuel exporting countries, researchers said Tuesday. The gases seeping from the waters – which are ringed by the resorts and ports of several countries, …

01 FEB 2020  The shipment of goods from the recently-built port of Gwadar, Pakistan to customers in Afghanistan has begun, according to Pakistani media. The boxship Diyala has offloaded two containers of fertilizer for Afghan customers at Gwadar, and the cargo will be trucked overland to the border town of Chaman, Kandahar. …

31 JAN 2020  Six seafarers aboard a French-operated container ship have fallen ill during a voyage from China to Egypt, raising concerns that they could be the first reported mariners to have contracted the new coronavirus strain originating in Wuhan. According to Sri Lankan media, six crewmembers aboard the container …

30 JAN 2020  Authorities in the UAE report that a tanker has caught fire at a position about 20 miles off the coast of Sharjah.  The UAE’s Federal Transport Authority – Land & Maritime (FTA) said in a statement Wednesday that it is “working to put out a fire that …

29 JAN 2020  The Seafarers Happiness Index published by The Mission to Seafarers this week highlights crew concerns about racism and a lack of support dealing with it along with concerns about a lack of shore leave to relieve stress. The index, undertaken in association with P&I insurer the Ship …

28 JAN 2020 The Baltic Exchange’s main sea freight index fell to its lowest level since April 2016, dragged down by lower vessels rates across categories. * The Baltic index, which tracks rates for capesize, panamax and supramax vessels ferrying dry bulk commodities, dropped 11 points, or 2.0%, to 546 …