October 14th, 201929I recently came across a job advert for a third officer by one of the UK’s major maritime industry recruiters, Faststream Recruitment. The advert offers the successful candidate “the opportunity to work with a leading cruise company, experience global travel, and enjoy an attractive package with lots of future...
October 3rd, 20191Pinger locators have finally found where the sank six weeks ago. After an extraordinary search over thousands of square kilometres, Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Commission has located the Gurita Lintas Samudra-owned ship in the Halmahera Sea, north of Buru Island in the Maluku area that sits in the heart of the...
September 30th, 20190Bourbon has announced that tug supply vessel , which was hit by bad weather associated with Hurricane category 4 hurricane Lorenzo, has sunk in the Atlantic. The French offshore vessel owner launched a rescue mission on Thursday after the vessel, headed for Guyana, encountered trouble while it was around 1,200 nautical miles off...
September 30th, 20190Nine seafarers were injured when fire broke out on two vessels following an explosion on Saturday morning on chemical tanker moored at the Korean port of Ulsan. The fire that broke out after the explosion spread to another chemical tanker, Bow Dalian, which was moored alongside the Stolt vessel. It was reported that the two vessels...
September 27th, 20193French offshore vessel owner Bourbon has launched a rescue operation for tug supply vessel , which developed a water ingress in the rear of the vessel after it was hit by bad weather associated with category 4 hurricane Lorenzo. The vessel, while headed for Guyana, was around 1,200 nautical miles off Martinique Island and 60 nautical...
September 24th, 201925Thetius founder Nick Chubb lets Splash in on a topic that has been troubling him of late while attending myriad maritime expos. With the rise of technology, the time has come, he argues, for people other than the ship’s captain to share the burden of responsibility that comes with the command of a vessel at sea. I’ve attended a...
September 12th, 20190Australian authorities have detained a second vessel at a Queensland port after crewmembers reported being owed more than $100,000 in unpaid wages. The Hong Kong-flagged bulk carrier , owned by Chinese company Ocean Prosperity and managed by Dalian Shipping, was delivering clinker — a material used in the manufacture of cement —...
September 11th, 20190The official search and rescue operation for the missing bulk carrier and its 25 crew has come to a close with just a liferaft, a lifebuoy and an oil slick to show for the thousands of manpower hours spent by teams at sea and in the air in the past three weeks since the Indonesian-flagged ship went missing. The case has now been...
September 10th, 20193The US Coast Guard and salvage crews have rescued the four remaining crew members from car carrier , which capsized in St. Simons Sound near Port of Brunswick, Georgia, on Sunday. A salvage team was deployed to the vessel yesterday morning and by 1pm local time it was confirmed the four men, believed to have been in the engine room...
September 9th, 20192Ship management and services giant V.Group has signed a contract with ADNOC Logistics & Services to provide crew management services to 93 offshore support vessels. V.Group said it has opened a new Abu Dhabi office to support the deal with the UAE-headquartered ADNOC. Allan Falkenberg, managing director of crew management at...
