The IMSO Director General, Captain Esteban Pacha-Vicente, today announced that Mr Koji Sekimizu, the Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) visited IMSO Headquarters on 28 January 2013. The purpose of the visit was to discuss matters of mutual interest, in particular in the field of the future of maritime communications and how new…
A passenger shipping vessel carrying 52 passengers reportedly lost its propeller and currently half-submerged position along the vicinity of Calapan Port Terminal in Oriental Mindoro on Thursday morning. The Coast Guard Action Center (CGAC) in Manila disclosed that around 6:30 a.m. of Thursday when M/V Baleno 168’s propeller was detached while having docking maneuver…
Drifting cruise ship, Lyubov Orlova, is now being towed by offshore supply vessel (OSV) Atlantic Hawk. The OSV was able to successfully secure a tow line to the derelict Orlova on Wednesday night off Newfoundland’s coast. The Russian cruise ship had been drifting for nearly one week in the North Atlantic Ocean after its…