[Brief] Indonesian authorities reported the successful rescue from the ocean of sailors from a sunken vessel. The vessel, the KM Ismail Jaya, reported that it had suffered a leak in its hull while sailing in the Southeast Sulawesi Province of Indonesia. At the time there were a total of seven crew members aboard the […]
The American Maritime Partnership, the association representing the Jones Act shipping industry, announced Monday that it is recognizing the actor Tom Hanks with its American Maritime Hero Award. In addition to his Oscar-nominated turns in movies like Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, Cast Away and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Hanks has appeared in […]
The Fjords celebrated the delivery of Legacy of The Fjords which will join her sister ships, Vision of The Fjords and Future of The Fjords, providing more tourists than ever an unparalleled experience in the spectacular landscapes on the west coast of Norway. According to John Vonli (Managing Director, The Fjords), the delivery of the […]
The Canaveral Port Authority has been awarded $908,015 in federal funding by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Port Security Grant Program (PSGP). The grant will be augmented by a 25 percent port match for a $1.2 million project to improve Port Canaveral’s port-wide risk prevention, threat mitigation and […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists reported two incidents of the discovery of highly invasive species of months on a container and ship arriving in the port of Baltimore, Maryland. Not known to be in the United States, the moths are considered potentially very destructive to trees and plants. According to CBP, its agriculture specialists […]
On Friday, Greek shipowner Danaos Shipping joined the growing ranks of container ship companies that have announced that they are already compliant with the IMO 2030 carbon intensity goal. Danaos, one of the leading independent owners and managers of container ships, said that its annual emissions per ton-mile have fallen by about 42 percent since […]
The National Union of Seafarers of Peninsular Malaysia (NUSPM) is highlighting the desperate situation for 12 Vietnamese seafarers stranded on their vessel in Malaysia. The product tanker Viet Tin 01 has been laying abandon by its owners since mid-March leaving the crew without their pay or supplies. Desperate for attention, the crew took to painting messages […]
Hong Kong has reversed itself reinstituting tighter controls governing crew changes scheduled to take place in the port. A month ago, port officials had relaxed the rules as part of the worldwide effort to facilitate crew changes but decided to reinstate the rules after a recent incident linked to a crew change in the city. […]
While the Trump administration has often pushed back against China’s expansionist tendencies, it has never formally rejected Beijing’s sweeping maritime claims in the South China Sea – until today. On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a formal change in American policy: where the United States previously considered maritime sovereignty disputes to be […]
Oman Air, the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman, continues to serve the nation and its customers with 69 chartered cargo-only flights from April to June, including the highest-ever cargo load the airline has carried. Oman Air has delivered cargo from nine cities in India, Pakistan, China, Iran, Malaysia and UAE, for the Royal […]
NOAA Fisheries has announced the cancellation of three more research surveys due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this time off the U.S. East Coast. The cancellations include annual resource surveys for sea scallop and Atlantic surfclam/ocean quahog, plus an advanced technology survey investigating the ocean’s mesopelagic layer—the “twilight zone.” To mitigate the impact from the […]
[By Louise Hunt] One night in early April, Musa Jammeh was out fishing off the Gambia’s Atlantic coast when he discovered a trawler had destroyed his nets while fishing illegally. Jammeh tried to get close enough in his wooden canoe to take the vessel’s registration number, so he could report the incident to the fisheries […]
