11 JULY 2023 On Sunday evening, a car carrier tore loose from its moorings and went adrift in the harbor at Bremerhaven, striking a dock at the Lloyd Werft shipyard and knocking over a crane. The stern lines of the 750-foot ship ripped free of the pier at about 2100 …
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11 JULY 2023 Nigeria’s state-owned oil firm NNPC Ltd said on Monday an 800,000-liter (211,338-U.S. gallon) vessel carrying stolen crude had been intercepted offshore while heading to Cameroon and would be destroyed as a deterrent to oil theft. Crude theft from pipelines and wells in the Niger Delta has hobbled the country’s output in …
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A small feeder ship moving containers coastally and inland in Bangladesh lost stability and partially sunk on July 6. The port authority is reporting that everyone was safely evacuated and that a salvage operation is underway. The Pangaon Express is a 19-year-old vessel being used to transfer containers from the Bangladesh seaport …
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14 JULY 2023 The Panama Maritime Authority (AMP), the entity overseeing the Panama Ship Registry received a letter of approval from the United States Coast Guard congratulating the country for its qualification to the Quality Shipping for the 21st Century Program (QUALSHIP21) and the flag’s commitment to quality shipping, since …
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15 JULY 2023 Everyone has a characteristic odor; a distinctive scent. Now scientists have found that with just a whiff of someone’s hand – and a fancy protein analysis machine – they can distinguish between sexes with darn-good accuracy. In the study of 60 people, consisting of 30 men and …
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13 JULY 2023 Countries on Friday adopted a revised greenhouse gas (GHG) strategy for shipping that sets a net zero emissions target by around the middle of the century, prompting environmental groups to say it was nowhere near ambitious enough. After days of discussions in London at U.N. shipping agency the International Maritime Organization’s …
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