Ballast Water Management: The D-2 Standard Is In Force
HSE & Compliance Holding the certificate no longer settles the question. Since D-2 became mandatory for every ship in scope, inspectors have moved from verifying documents to sampling what actually leaves the ship, and the findings that…
Life-Saving Appliances A lifebuoy is a ring that floats. The complication is that SOLAS does not treat them as interchangeable: it specifies which buo…
Firefighting Systems A ship carries more portable extinguishers than any other item of safety equipment, and each one runs on three separate clocks at…
Trading & Markets A fuel can meet the sulphur limit, arrive with correct paperwork, and still wreck an engine. Since the 0.50% cap reshaped the bu…
Germany Receives Next FSRU as It Adds LNG Import Capacity
The state-owned Deutsche Energy Terminal GmbH (DET) highlighted the return of its fourth FSRU (Floating Storage and Regasification Unit) as it gears up for increased LNG import capacity.
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Report: Some Foreign Ships Aren’t Reporting Jones Act Waiver Voyages
In a new review of federal records and port call data, Bloomberg discovered that at least a dozen foreign-flag tankers have engaged in U.S.
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Japan, Korea, and Russia Coordinate to Rescue Three North Korean Seafarers
In a rare example of maritime cooperation among unlikely participants, three North Korean seafarers were rescued from their sinking boat while a search is ongoing for a fourth missing individual.
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Hormuz Shuttle Tankers: An Evolving Trend Amid the Iran War
Examining the growing shuttle tanker trade through the Strait of Hormuz and ship-to-ship transfers in the Gulf of Oman
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IMO Renews Call to Stop Attacks on Seafarers and Commercial Ships
?To date, IMO has verified 80 attacks on merchant vessels in the and around the Strait of Hormuz, resulting in at least 22 deaths of seafarers.
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