The U.K. and Danish marine accident investigation agencies have published the finding of a long running study of ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems) prompted by their investigations of groundings since
In the wake of the deadly fire on the dive boat Conception, safety compliance checks are being conducted underway on smaller, U.S. inspected passenger vessels operating off the California coast. The checks
With soaring container shipping demand, there are reports that exporters are chartering bulk carriers to carry containers. That may not be quite such a simple solution as it sounds. The U.K. P&I
The National Transportation Safety Board has released its Safer Seas Digest 2020, a compendium of the NTSB’s maritime accident investigations involving loss of life, injuries and significant property damage completed in 2020.
Ship managers have who are members of InterManager have agreed unanimously to double their onboard provision of medical oxygen from the standard one 40 liter cylinder to two. They also recommend stocking
The National Transportation Safety Board has issued its report on a May 8, 2020, incident in which, at about 4.55 p.m. local time, the anchored general cargo vessel Nomadic Milde collided with
A Liberian-flagged product tanker was today sailing under the control of its crew and with a U.S. Navy escort after being involved in an incident yesterday in which two of those on
Videos posted on YouTube show the collapse, Sunday, of a wind turbine installation vessel (WTIV) jack-up in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, China. At the time of the collapse, there were 64 people aboard
Member authorities of the Tokyo and the Paris Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Port State Control are to launch a joint Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) on vessel stability. It will be held
The Lake Barkley Grounding Unified Command is scheduled to begin salvage operations tomorrow, June 16, to unground the riverboat, American Jazz. The riverboat has been stuck on a sandbar near Barkley Bridge