* Union says delay in presenting plan breaches agreement * Port president doubts stoppage will occur next week (Reuters) – Brazil’s government said on Thursday it will rush to present a proposal to reform the country’s ports in a congressional committee next week to ward off a 24-hour strike by the nation’s dock workers.…
The police officials of Hong Kong charged 2 captains with manslaughter after a ferry vessel collision last October, which claimed 39 lives in the city’s worst maritime disaster in decades. The Sea Smooth high speed passenger ferry crashed into the Lamma IV pleasures craft, carrying around 120 people on a company trip to watch…
Tehran (ANTARA News) – Iran is set to launch a new indigenous destroyer, Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari was quoted by Press TV as saying on Saturday. The destroyer, called Shaheed Bayandor, will officially join the Iranian naval fleet by next month in line with efforts to boost naval capabilities, Sayyari said.…
The collision of 2 vessels caused oil spill into Colombia’s Caribbean waters on Wednesday, the reported the Colombian government. The collision occurred in the Bay of Colombia early Wednesday, when the oil-carrying Singaporean vessel Crccow Esmerald and a tug vessel crashed into each other near the mouth of the Leon River in the Uraba…