August 13th, 20192Crew attacked in the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz will get bonus pay and doubled death and disability compensation after the the International Bargaining Forum (IBF) designated the area a temporary extended risk zone. This follows a period of discussions by the IBF’s Warlike Operations Areas Committee over the past weeks,...
August 12th, 20190With the crew of the now detained for nearly four weeks in Iran, Stena Bulk's chief executive and president Erik Hanell has written to Narendra Modi, asking the Indian prime minister to personally intervene to negotiate with Tehran. Eighteen of the 23 crew detained on the Stena product carrier are Indian nationals - and there are a...
August 9th, 20191The families of the crew who last their lives on the converted ore carrier Stella Daisy two-and-a-half years ago have voiced their huge disappointment that just 7% of the data on the retrieved voyage data recorder (VDR) has been decipherable. The rest has been deemed damage beyond repair. As the Polaris Shipping ship actually contained a...
July 29th, 20190Stena Bulk is asking Iranian authorities to get access to its impounded product tanker, , and the 23 crew onboard. The UK-flagged ship was seized on July 20 in an apparent retaliation for British armed forces arresting an Iranian VLCC off Gibraltar earlier in the month over a cargo heading for sanctions-hit Syria. Iran has claimed the...
July 26th, 20190Iran has released nine out of 12 Indians who were onboard the tanker that was detained in early July, accused of fuel smuggling, something the ship’s charterer has strenuously denied. Indian diplomats are now working to free the remaining three on the Riah as well as the crew on the Stena Impero, impounded by Iran a week ago, in...
July 25th, 20191Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) has formed a joint venture with Philippines-based conglomerate Transnational Diversified Group to launch an electronic money platform for seafarers called MarCoPay, a new venture that also features Accenture and Citi. The Manila-based platform will be owned 50:50 between NYK and TDG. MarCoPay is an electronic...
July 22nd, 20190Iranian authorities have said the 23 crew of the detained in the port of Bandar Abbas since Friday are okay. The UK-flagged ship owned by Stena Bulk was seized by Iranian special forces while transiting international waters in the Strait of Hormuz, likely in retaliation for Gibraltar, a British sovereign territory, arresting an Iranian...
July 18th, 20193An intriguing legal case is brewing in the Caribbean with an offshore support vessel on the run. The – registered to Maridive Mexico, a subsidiary of Maridive, one of Egypt’s largest shipowners, was arrested earlier this week in Aruba based on a $21m claim against the owners by Riverlake Solutions and Stalco Shipping &...
July 5th, 20194Conditions onboard an arrested pipelayer off Ghana have been labelled deplorable, with urgent calls to get the stranded crew off the ship and back home. The 42-year-old was arrested 10 months ago in Ghana after a Nigerian company, Fortune Global Shipping & Logistics, claimed it was owed $1.9m from another Nigerian company called...
July 2nd, 20190A seafarer died and another 15 were hospitalised last night after a fire broke out on the Malta-flagged LPG carrier , which was moored at a port in Turkey. The fire started at 11pm last night while the ship was offloading a cargo at a SOCAR facility in the port of Aliaga. The fire was put at 2am this morning and cooling operations are...
