Merchant vessels are reminded to remain vigilant while transiting this area and ensure that Self Protection Measures are in place as Pirate Attack Groups (PAGs) may be operating in the area. Although sea states in some parts of the HRA have become more marginal with the onset of the Northeast Monsoon season, small boats…
A container ship firm based in Singapore – Pacific International Lines has to pay $2.2 million in criminal penalties for illegal oil waste disposal and a falsified oil record book. The company pleaded guilty in court in Washington for giving false information to the U.S. Coast Guard and for violating a law against pollution…
The U.S. Coast Guard is responding to a report of an allision between a vessel and an inactive wellhead about nine miles southwest of Port Sulphur, Wednesday. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans watchstanders received a report that the 42-foot crewboat Sea Raider allided with a wellhead owned by Swift Energy at around 8 p.m.,…
Chinese buoys installed for “maritime weather observations” near disputed islands in control of Japan raised again the tension between the 2 countries. Japan reacted and asked an explanation from Japan for these buoys which were installed very close to the Japanese waters boundary near the East China Sea islands named Senkaku by Japan. Some…