29 crewmembers aboard the oil tanker PRATIBHA TAPI have been stranded about four nautical miles off a Mumbai port for nearly three months. The mariners’ conditions are heavily deteriorating due to lack of food, water, and fuel; many have fallen ill. The crew of the TAPI has apparently not been paid for a month,…
For the year 2013, the shipping industry should continue to boost efforts to counter piracy and armed robbery, which will continue to be a threat, according to Peter M. Swift, chairman of the Maritime Piracy Humanitarian Response Programme (MPHRP). Pirate attacks and armed robbery operating in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean have remained…
Jakarta: State-run construction firm PT Pembangunan Perumahan Persero is set to start construction this month on a much-needed alternative to Jakarta’s cramped Tanjung Priok port. Groundbreaking for the new Kalibaru port is imminent and comes as Jakarta groans over limited freight handling capacity. The Indonesian capital handles roughly two thirds of all the nation’s…
Amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) aimed at preventing accidents during lifeboat launching entered into force on 1 January 2013. The amendments, adopted in May 2011, add a new paragraph 5 to SOLAS regulation III/1, to require lifeboat on-load release mechanisms not complying with new International Life-Saving…