In its latest report, seafarer charity Stella Maris echoed growing concerns about crew mistreatment, including abandonment, unpaid wages and forced labor. In 2020, abandonment cases soared to a record high. More than twice as many seafarers were abandoned in 2020 compared to 2019, and data from...
Although we are in the midst of the summer holidays and mails are returned with out-of-office messages, some moves were made on the offshore energy chess board. Moves that show that the strategy of...
Lim Huey Ching, the daughter of scandal-hit shipowner and oil trader Lim Oon Kuin, has been charged with obstruction of justice in connection with the investigation into the collapse of the family's sprawling business holdings. Lim Oon Kuin, better known as OK Lim, faces 130 charges...
The Waterborne Technology Platform has expanded its membership by welcoming its 100th partner - Maritime & Logistics Innovation Denmark (MARLOG). The post Waterborne Technology Platform welcomes...
[By Stephen P. Leatherman] Here’s a handy geography question for your next trivia match: What is the world’s only sea that doesn’t have a land border? The answer is the Sargasso Sea – a 2-million-square-nautical-mile haven of biodiversity that lies east of Bermuda in the Atlantic Ocean. Rather than...
Singapore-based Phoenix Tankers, a subsidiary of shipping major Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) has signed a deal with Namura Shipbuilding Co. for the construction of two very large gas carriers (VLGC) to...
[Brief] On Monday, the Coast Guard medically evacuated a 60-year-old mariner from an ATB tug about 65 miles off Galveston, Texas. Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston received a call at about 1600 hours from the tug Leigh Ann Moran stating a crew member was "ailing and disoriented." The sector's...
The armed group who seized a vessel off the coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has left the targeted ship, the British navy reported. The post UPDATE: Tanker “safe” after hijack...
Italian archaeologists have discovered a Roman wreck from the second century B.C. off the coast of Sicily. The sunken vessel was located in about 300 feet of water off Isola delle Femmine, near Palermo, and it was heavily laden with amphorae - likely of the...
Danish shipping and logistics giant A.P. Moller - Maersk has upgraded its 2021 full-year guidance reporting strong performance in Q2 2021. The post Maersk ups 2021 profit expectations, reports Q2...
