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| Shipping line established between Iran’s Chabahar Port, 2 Indian ports |
Deputy Head of Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) Jalil Eslami has said direct container shipping lines have been established between Iran’s southeastern port of Chabahar and two Western Indian ports of Nhava Sheva, and Kandla. According to Eslami, regular container service with a traffic schedule of 10 to 15 days is performed by the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) through these lines, the PMO portal reported... -Tehran Times
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| GARD warns on issues with electronic ship certificates |
Norwegian insurer Gard has issued an alert claiming ships continue to experience instances of port state control interventions, and sometimes hefty fines, allegedly because the validity of their electronic statutory and class certificates cannot be verified during onboard inspections... -ShipInsight
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| New Zealand water ship unloads in Tonga as other aid trickles in |
Life-saving water supplies from a New Zealand navy ship were distributed across Tonga’s main island on Friday, as other countries battled the logistics of delivering aid to one of the world’s remotest communities. Six days after the South Pacific archipelago was devastated by a volcanic eruption and tsunami that deposited a blanket of ash and polluted its water sources, the HMNZS Aotearoa docked in the capital, Nuku’alofa... -Reuters
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| Distressed Cargo Ship Reports Being "Harassed" by Unknown Vessel |
Swedish and Danish forces responded to a distress call on Thursday evening from a Norwegian coastal vessel that was in danger of sinking. They conducted a difficult nighttime rescue airlifting the crew to safety and while the investigation is ongoing, some sources are reporting that the crew said it was “harassed” by an unknown vessel leading up to the distress call... -The Maritime Executive
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| A Greener and More Ambitious EU Maritime ETS Emerges |
On January 14, 2022 the European Parliament’s Rapporteur, MEP Peter Liese, published his draft report on a proposal to revise the Emissions Trading System (ETS) Directive¹ which forms part of the ‘Fit for 55’ package of climate and energy reforms published on July 14, 2021... -MarineLink
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| How a $200 carbon price could help shipping get to net-zero |
For decades, the global supply chain has been powered by the dirtiest, cheapest fuel, a sludgy byproduct of oil refineries, called bunker fuel or marine fuel oil. Black smoke billowed from the world’s fleet of 50,000 cargo vessels, accumulating to 3% of annual global carbon emissions, a larger share than all but six countries. But cheap fuel meant cheap shipping, and there was little incentive to do anything about it... -Quartz
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| ABS Withdraws Certification for Two Oil Tankers Over Iran Sanctions |
Two tankers have had their environmental and safety classification withdrawn by a U.S. company that provides such certification, after accusations by a U.S. advocacy group that they had shipped cargoes of Iranian oil, documents seen by Reuters show. Countries targeted by tougher U.S. sanctions, including Iran and Venezuela, have responded to the mounting pressure with elaborate strategies to circumvent restrictions on their oil exports... -gCaptain
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| CMA CGM and TotalEnergies Launch Ship-to-Ship LNG Bunkering in Marseille |
France-based CMA CGM and TotalEnergies have launched the first ship-to-containership bunkering service in France’s Port of Marseille. The new service conducted its inaugural bunkering operation on board the LNG-powered containership CMA CGM Bali, a 15,000 TEU capacity containership, while berthed at the Eurofos container terminal for cargo operations... -gCaptain
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| Norwegian Aframax troubled in Marmara sea |
Aframax crude oil tanker ERVIKEN encountered mechanical issue in Marmara sea off Bosphorus, while about to commence Straits transit, en route from Piraeus to Kavkaz. Tanker is in ballast, she was taken to Ahirkapi Anchorage, Istanbul, Marmara sea, and anchored, in the afternoon Jan 20... -Fleetmon
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| Scrap metal fire in cargo hold of Turkish freighter, Spain |
Cargo of scrap metal went on fire in cargo hold of general cargo ship BALAT at Motril port, Mediterranean Spain, in the afternoon Jan 20. Land fire engines, tugs and SAR ship were deployed in tackling fire, it was taken under control and extinguished in about an hour. No injures reported... -Fleetmon
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| Dutch freighter contacted pier, damaged, Germany |
General cargo ship EEMS EXE allided with pier wall while berthing at Wismar, Germany, Baltic sea, in the afternoon Jan 20, on arrival from Kaliningrad Russia. Both the ship and the pier sustained damages, extent unknown. EEMS EXE finally, was berthed, strong wind is believed to be the cause of the accident, pushing the ship out of control... -Fleetmon
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| Ferry crashes into yachts in Marina, Barbados |
RORO vessel ADMIRAL BAY III crashes into sailing yachts in the port of Bridgetown, Barbados, on January 20, reported Salvage-and-Wreck. Investigation in the causation is ongoing... -Fleetmon
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