Shipowners considering employing armed guards to protect their ships from pirate attacks in west Africa need to be extremely careful, according to new guidance published by the ‘A’ rated 170 million GT North P&I Club. According to the Club’s new loss prevention briefing entitled West African Piracy, standard solutions and contracts for hiring armed…
The ship that was hijacked by Somali pirates and held in captivity for 11 months was sold at $1,000,000 following a petition by the crew. The abandoned crew include 10 Ukrainian and three Kenyans who served in the ship that was ferrying 19,000 metric tonnes of clinker to Tanzania. A Mombasa court gave the…
Sailors aboard ‘USS Abraham Lincoln’ (CVN 72) completed a major step in its overhaul, removing all flight deck catapults. The aircraft carrier’s V-2 division teamworked with Huntington Ingalls Industries, Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard workers, allowing them to begin their inspection for structural corrosion beneath the catapult troughs sooner. In all, Lincoln’s V-2 Division saved…
The unified command continues to respond to a crude oil spill in the lower Mississippi River near mile marker 436 in Vicksburg, Miss., Thursday. At 10:05 a.m. response crews removed fuel from the damaged barge MOC-12 after reconfiguring oil-pump equipment. Following completion of the oil removal operations the damaged barge will be inspected and…