By Wendy Laursen 2015-04-19 20:26:52 Human Rights at Sea (HRAS) has called on IMO to take action on human rights saying that the Maritime Labour Convention is inadequate. The call comes as part of ...
HRAS Calls on IMO for Action
Possible Engineroom Fire on Oriana
By MarEx 2015-04-19 19:07:15 PortMiami Webcam filmed the P&O cruise ship Oriana returning to port a few hours after departure on April 18 after a suspected engineroom fire. The vessel was ...
World’s First LNG-Powered Containership Launched
By Wendy Laursen 2015-04-19 17:22:02 On Saturday, April 18 General Dynamics NASSCO launched the Isla Bella, the world's first LNG-powered containership from its San Diego-based shipyard. The 3,100TEU ...
Deepwater Horizon Costing BP $42 Billion
By MarEx 2015-04-19 16:56:24 Five years after the Deepwater Horizon accident, the largest oil spill in U.S. history, many Louisiana oystermen are fearful that a once-bountiful population of the ...
EU Considers Naval Action in Libya
By MarEx 2015-04-19 16:22:36 The EU is considering sending warships to the Libyan coast to combat oil and arms smugglers but fears that could encourage more migrants to take to sea in hopes of being ...
700 Migrants Feared Dead off Libya
By MarEx 2015-04-19 07:48:17 As many as 700 people were feared dead after a fishing boat packed with migrants capsized off the Libyan coast overnight, in what may be one of the worst disasters of ...
More migrants drown in the Mediterranean
Merchant ships attempting to come to the aid of migrant boats in the Mediterranean may have inadvertently contributed to the loss of an estimated 1,000 lives in the past week. Last night, 600 to 700 ...
Drug Bust: Cruise Ship Galley Worker Arrested
By Wendy Laursen 2015-04-18 22:29:25 A Nicaraguan galley worker has been arrested in Roatan in the Caribbean after allegedly attempting to board the cruise ship Norwegian Dawn with cocaine hidden in ...
Two Ships Aground in Suez Canal
By MarEx 2015-04-18 18:22:21 A container ship ran aground in Egypt's Suez Canal in dense mist on Saturday morning, the canal authority said, delaying traffic through a vital global trade route for ...
Migrant rescues prompt SOLAS review
The International Maritime Organization is to review legislation underpinning sea rescues by commercial shipping as a "matter of priority" in the light of mass rescues of migrants and refugees being ...
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