Maritime Safety
With pirate attacks on the rise, insurance companies have come up with their own solution: They are proposing a privately...
Pirates in two skiffs fired rocket-propelled grenades and guns at an oil tanker off East Africa before boarding the vessel and...
Indian Maritime training institutes are believed to be relieved about the recent move of the Directorate General of Shipping (...
Shipments of prohibited drugs are on the rise around the Philippines, with Palawan’s three sea lanes being used as drop-off...
Piracy costs the shipping industry billions of dollars a year and leads to high-profile murders that make global headlines....
Initiation of search and rescue operations in respect of a vessel whose position is unknown In the event of an emergency phase...
The world’s biggest oil-tanker firms, dry bulk carriers and container lines are servicing Japanese ports, judging there to be...
Chinese authorities rejected a container ship operated by MOL, Japan's second-largest shipping line, saying they had detected...
The 12 Mozambicans rescued by the Indian navy from Somali pirates are now being heard by an Indian court in Mumbai, as...
Representatives of Asian shipowners’ associations have expressed outrage over a lack of government action against an increasing...
A European project to integrate existing national and transnational maritime surveillance systems is under way. The Spanish...
Procedures For Rescue Co-Ordination Centres And Rescue Sub-Centres During Emergency Phases 1. Upon the declaration of the...
The question on many people’s lips is why do warships keep catching and releasing pirates? A simple enough question, but...
Maersk Line will this week, celebrate the fifth anniversary of its switch from high-sulfur bunker fuel to low-sulfur distillate...
• Pirate activity appears to be spreading outwards from the Niger Delta. • The Bakassi Peninsula is an area of particular...
Maersk Line announced a steep increase in emergency risk surcharges imposed earlier on containers moving via ports in the...
The UK Foreign Secretary has announced £6 million funding to improve maritime surveillance of pirates in the Indian Ocean and...
The Liberian ship registry is urging the IMO to take the lead on establishing international guidelines on the deployment of...
Representatives of Asian shipowners’ associations have expressed outrage over a lack of government action against an increasing...
According to movie industry news, Hollywood is about to make a movie in which Tom Hanks will play the part of Richard Phillips...
Transas Mediterranean in cooperation with its local partner SERAMAR has delivered a Vessel Traffic Management System (VTMS) to...
Information Concerning Emergencies Parties shall ensure that such continuous radio watches as are deemed practicable and...
According to movie industry news, Hollywood is about to make a movie in which Tom Hanks will play the part of Richard Phillips...
The Indian Navy has intercepted the Mozambique-registered fishing vessel VEGA 5 after a gun battle in the Arabian Sea, and has...
Only two years after deciding to join in the piracy rampant off the Somalian coast, Saeed Yare is a dollar multi-millionaire....
