The still-burning car carrier Fremantle Highway has now been successfully towed to new temporary location some 16 miles north of the West Frisian Islands of Schiermonnikoog and Ameland. The agency handling the
As the fire aboard the car carrier Fremantle Highway continued burning off the Dutch coast, a spokesman for the vessel’s charterer, Japan’s K-Line, is reported as saying that there were there were
A complex scheme to evade U.S. Iran sanctions has not turned out too well for onetime tanker owner Behrouz Mokhtari, 72, of McLean, Va. This week, he was sentenced to 41 months
Excessive speed during an advanced harbor-assist maneuver led to a tugboat collision with a containership in the Houston Ship Channel last year, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday. The vessels in
The Netherlands Coast Guard is continuing to respond to a fire aboard the Shoei Kisen pure car carrier Fremantle Highway that broke out at 11.45 p.m., local time yesterday. The Coast Guard
Armada Risk Partners CEO Ed McNamara, Cleveland Ohio port insurance broker, on why a port cyberattack is a real concern for operators. A port cyberattack is now one of the biggest and
The failure of the doubler-plated hull under the engine room likely caused the flooding and sinking of the 1978-built fishing vessel Grace Marie near Gloucester, Mass., last year, the National Transportation Safety
The ship fire that broke out aboard the Grimaldi RO/RO Grande Costa d’Avorio on the evening of July 5 has finally been extinguished, Capt. Zeita Merchant, the captain of the port of
By Professor Basil Germond, Chair in International Security, Lancaster University The maritime sector, like other sectors of the economy and society, is targeted by cyber criminals seeking personal and commercial data (e.g.,
The deadly car carrier fire aboard the Grimaldi Deep Sea RO/RO vessel Grande Costa d’Avorio that cost two Newark firefighters their lives continued to burn today and seemed likely to continue burning