Solomon Islands
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Environment
$100 per tonne emissions levy put forward by the Marshall Islands and Solomon Islands
Upping the stakes ahead of this year’s crunch Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) meeting at the International Maritime Organization (IMO),…
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Environment
Solomon Islands hit by another big oil spill
Two years since authorities were confronted with a major bunker spill, the government of the Solomon Islands is facing another…
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Environment
22 months on, locals still wait for $40m payout from the Solomon Trader disaster
Economic losses from the bunker spill from last year’s most high profile dry bulk casualty, the , could be as…
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Environment
Solomon reefs damaged irreparably from latest bauxite spill
The coral reefs off Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands are likely to be permanently damaged from the latest shipping…
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Dry Cargo
Solomon Islands bay hit by another big spill
With authorities still assessing the scale of the environmental impact from the bunker spill in February of the bulk carrier,…
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Dry Cargo
Solomon Trader refloated
The , this year’s most high profile ship grounding, was finally reflected over the weekend,weekend, more than three months after…
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Environment
Salvors succeed in containing Solomon Trader spill
A successful salvage operation over the weekend has finally staunched the flow of bunker fuel from a grounded bulker in…
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Dry Cargo
Solomons PM vows to chase owner of grounded bulker
The caretaker prime minister of the Solomon Islands has told the mining companies, shipowner and P&I Club connected to the…
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Asia
Solomon Trader owner denies crew were out celebrating Chinese new year at time of grounding
One month and one day on from the ship’s grounding, the insurer and the owner of the finally issued a…
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Environment
Australia warns all 660 tons of bunker fuel could leak from grounded Solomon Trader
More than 80 tons of heavy bunker fuel has now spilled from the hull of the grounded bulker with Australian…
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Environment
Terrifying extent of Solomon bunker spill laid bare
The extent of the ecological disaster hitting the shoreline of Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands has been laid bare…
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Dry Cargo
Bunker spill branded Solomon Islands’ worst man-made natural disaster
In what has been branded the worst man-made natural disaster ever to hit the country, at least 60 tonnes of…
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Dry Cargo
Charterer declares bulker in Solomons disaster is a total loss
A salvage team is in place to remove the wreck of , which has now been declared a total loss,…
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Dry Cargo
Australia sends help as Solomons fight bunker slick near UNESCO site
The Solomon Islands is seeking help from Australia as bunker fuel seeps from a grounded bulker near the world’s largest…
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Dry Cargo
Slick detected from grounded bulker near the world’s largest raised coral atoll
Oil spill response teams headed today to Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands to counter an oil slick from a…
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Greater China
Reef damage feared as bulker grounds off the Solomon Islands
Reef damage is expected when authorities in the Solomon Islands finally get to survey the area where a bulker ran…
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