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For the second time in a month, the Indian Coast Guard has been called upon to assist in fighting a fire aboard a commercial ship at sea. They are currently assisting with a container fire aboard a vessel operating...

The fire-stricken tanker, New Diamond, is now bound for an offshore oil terminal at Kandla Port Trust, according to Indian media. After a long tow around India's coastline, her cargo of crude oil will be discharged safely, reducing environmental...

Philippine anchorages and ports has seen an increase in the number of incidents of sea robbery from January to September, 2020, the ReCAAP Information Sharing Centre said in a special report. During the nine-month period, thirteen actual incidents were reported...

China has effectively called off the search and rescue operations it had embarked on the missing Gulf 1 Livestock vessel which went down on September 2, in its waters. Responding to the anguish of the families of the missing seafarers...

An ammonia-fueled tanker designed and developed by South Korean shipbuilder, Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), has received Approval In Principle (AIP), from classification society, Lloyd’s Register (LR). The project to develop the novel, emissions-slashing aframax tanker was announced in January as...

Qingdao, the major port China has chosen to pilot the easing of crew change regulations, is at the centre of a worrying Covid-19 outbreak, Splash 247 reports. Two workers at the northeastern port have come down with asymptomatic infections of...

Maritime authorities in Ghana have reported the possible approach of a speedboat at sea by suspected pirates, targeting a tanker as incidents of attacks in the Gulf of Guinea increases by the day. Dryad reports that there have been no...

Barely one month after a devastating explosion rocked the Beirut Port in Lebanon, leading to the death of over 190 people and displacing more than six thousand residents, there has been another large explosion in Ain Qana, a hill-top...

India's National Investigation Agency (NIA), has arrested nine men who were allegedly preparing to carry out terrorist attacks on behalf of Al Qaeda, including an attack on Indian Navy facilities, according to local media. "The NIA had learnt about an...

The shipowner of the sunken Gulf Livestock 1 has requested for a renewed search for survivors following pressure from the families of the missing seafarers. In an online news conference held on Wednesday, September 16, family members of the missing...