Carbon monoxide poisoning is thought to have been the cause of the death of a seafarer and the loss of consciousness of three other people while they were in the hold of a vessel transporting wood ...
Carbon monoxide poisoning suspected in accident
Maersk Tigris crew safe
Posted on: Thursday, April 30th, 2015 By: Debbie Source: Tradewinds A commercial dispute is reportedly behind the seizure of a Maersk-chartered boxship by Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz. An ...
Top Ten Maritime News Stories 30/04/2015
Posted on: Thursday, April 30th, 2015 By: Szymanski Seacurus Daily: Top Ten Maritime News Stories 30/04/2015 1. Shipmanager Speaks Out on Attack Rickmers Shipmanagement has told the media that ...
Nautilus International denounces Sewol captain’s life sentence
Nautilus International, the trade union and professional organisation for maritime professionals, has denounced the life sentence handed down to the Sewol ferry captain on 28 April. Lee Jun-seok, 69, ...
Sewol captain gets life sentence
The captain of Sewol, the ferry that capsized last year, has been jailed for life after the prosecution appealed for a harsher penalty. The appeals court in South Korea handed down the harsher ...
News insight: Master recounts migrant rescue
A Campbell Shipping fleet ship recently plucked to safety three fishermen who were stranded on their capsized vessel in South Africa. It is the type of rescue that commercial ships routinely carry ...
EU migrant resource funding ‘not sufficient’
The European Council has announced that it will triple the funding and assets of Europe's border patrol operations, but the shipping industry has responded that this will not be sufficient to tackle ...
Piracy surges in SE Asia
Posted on: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015 By: Debbie Source: Tradewinds A small coastal tanker is hijacked every two weeks on average, IMB report shows. A small coastal tanker is hijacked by pirates in ...
Migrant boat crews arrested
The captain of a migrant vessel that capsized late on Saturday night has been charged with mass homicide and causing a shipwreck for his part in the deaths of several hundred people who drowned in the ...
South Korea Will Raise Sewol
By MarEx 2015-04-22 00:32:12 South Korea said on Wednesday it will raise the Sewol ferry that sank a year ago, killing more than 300 people, most of them children, yielding to pressure from mourning ...