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NGO Shipbreaking Platform Reports on 2025 and Calls for More Regulation
The NGO Shipbreaking Platform compiled a report on the ships sold for dismantling in 2025 while calling for continued efforts to i...
Read More >>Captain of Solong Gets Six Years as Court Cites “Complacency and Arrogance"
A judge at the UK’s “Old Bailey” court in London sentenced the former master of the Solong containership to six years in jail for...
Read More >>Italian Coast Guard Finds 54 Deficiencies After Saving Livestock Carrier
The Italian Coast Guard completed its inspection of the livestock carrier Blue Ocean A after overseeing the towing of the disabled...
Read More >>Op-Ed: Seafarer Recruitment Should Never Be a Gamble
Recent reports concerning Chinese seafarers who traveled overseas for what they believed were legitimate job opportunities, only t...
Read More >>Video: Tanker Crew Rescues Yacht in Challenging Weather off Bahamas
On Monday morning, a merchant tanker rescued three people from a sailboat in distress about 450 miles to the east of Daytona Beach...
Read More >>Maersk-Hapag Alliance to Send Ships Through Red Sea with Naval Assistance
The alliance between Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd will start for the first time to send vessels through the Red Sea as part of its gradu...
Read More >>With U.S. Embargo Lifted, Venezuelan Oil Exports Bounce Back
Oil exports from Venezuela have surged upwards since the end of the U.S. embargo and the capture of former dictator Nicolas Maduro...
Read More >>Tankers Sail Off After Malaysia Finds Them "Cojoined" and Stops Illegal STS
The Maritime Enforcement Agency of Malaysia proudly celebrated its crackdown last week on an illegal ship-to-ship oil transfer but...
Read More >>Yang Ming Captain Arrested on Suspicion of Drug Smuggling
An arrest warrant was issued late on January 30 in Taiwan for the captain of a Yang Ming containership on suspicion of drug smuggl...
Read More >>US Seizes $70k in Unreported Currency from COSCO Bulker
Officials of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized a large amount of unreported cash from a Chinese-owned bulker whi...
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