The National Transportation Safety Board is scheduled to conduct a board meeting October 20, 2020, at 1 p.m. (EST), to consider the agency’s investigation of the fatal, September 2, 2019, fire aboard
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has updated its protocols for ensuring safe crew change during the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, IMO says, some 400,000 seafarers from across the globe are now stranded on
Malaysia’s Star newpaper says that “maritime rage” akin to “road rage” is being eyed as the possible cause of an incident captured on YouTube videos that show the moment when a 3,745
Coast Guard Sector Virginia and the Port of Virginia’s Maritime Incident Response Team are assisting the crew of a bulk carrier after it ran aground near Norfolk on Wednesday night. Watchstanders at
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has become the latest high profile maritime victim of a cyber attack. “The interruption of service was caused by a sophisticated cyber attack against the organization’s IT
The National Transportation Safety Board has issued a preliminary report on the August 21 incident in which the 152-foot-long cutter-head suction dredge Waymon L. Boyd caught fire and four crew members died.
The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) says that a great deal has changed since March when first issued guidance for the global shipping industry to help combat the spread of COVID-19. With
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche (WMSL 751) arrived at Yokosuka, Japan, today after combating a shipboard engineering fire on September 20, during a scheduled deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet’s area
Viking Line’s 1988-built RoPax Amorella, which operates on the Turku, Finland, to Stockholm, Sweden route, grounded at Järsö, in the Åland archipelago at 12.50 pm, Finnish time, yesterday with 200 passengers and
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) opened the public case docket Wednesday as part of its ongoing investigation of the fatal, September 2, 2019, fire aboard the dive boat Conception off Santa