Draft guidelines on the preservation and collection of evidence following an allegation of a serious crime having taken place on board a ship, or following a report of a missing person from a ship, and on pastoral and medical care of victims were approved by the Legal Committee of the International Maritime Organization (IMO),…
Nigerian authorities have seized a ship carrying about 2,500 tons of fuel refined from stolen oil in the Niger Delta. Navy officials reported that the vessel was on the verge of filling the fourth of its compartments before it was intercepted by a team of operatives, according to the Nigerian Tribune. The operation was…
Barge shipping on the Illinois River and parts of the Mississippi River was at a standstill on Monday as flooding forced the closure of numerous locks and crews worked to recover dozens of barges that broke free in flood-swollen currents. The U.S. Coast Guard will close a section of the Illinois River near Peoria…
The CMA CGM Group is pleased to announce that the CMA CGM ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, second of the world’s largest and state of the art containership’s series, begins its first voyage today, Friday, April 19th in Pusan, South Korea. Built by DSME (Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering) in South Korea, this giant of the…