Maritime News
By Leila Abboud (Bloomberg Gadfly) — Satellite operator Inmarsat was founded 40 years ago to let ships communicate with land so rescuers could aid sailors. The maritime business, which still provides half of sales and operating profit, set it apart from rivals who were focused on broadcasting and broadband. As a result, the British company […]
HOUSTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) – A tanker carrying over 1 million barrels of U.S. light crude finished discharging on Monday after a 100-day wait related to payment delays from Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA to oil major BP Plc, according to Thomson Reuters vessel tracking data. PDVSA in March awarded BP a tender to import up to […]
Sept 26 (Reuters) – Flooding on the Mississippi River is likely to close three locks on the grain shipping waterway from southern Iowa to northern Missouri later this week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said on Monday. Closure of lock 17 near New Boston, Illinois; lock 18 near Gladstone, Illinois; and lock 20 near […]
A 22-year-old Rhode Island man has been found alive after more than a week lost at sea in an inflatable life raft, the U.S. Coast Guard has confirmed. A spokesman for the Coast Guard said Nathan Carman was spotted about 100 nautical miles offshore Massachusetts by a passing commercial freighter. He was in relatively good condition […]
by Richard Luscombe (TheGuardian) Authorities in Florida are investigating the death of one of baseball’s best young players, the Miami Marlins pitcher José Fernández, who was killed in a boating accident in Miami Beach early Sunday. Divers from the Miami-Dade fire rescue department recovered the bodies of Fernández, 24, and two friends from the water after the […]
Carnival Corporation’s Chinese joint venture has agreed to order two new cruise ships to be built in China for the domestic market. The world’s largest cruise company announced late last week that its joint venture with China State Shipbuilding Corporation and Italy-based Fincantieri has signed a non-binding memorandum of agreement to order two of China’s first […]
Here’s is some video posted online showing a 2015 incident involving a bulk carrier and a VLCC. Not much information available but according to the uploader the tanker in the video is the MT Hirmand, owned by the National Iranian Tanker Company. From the video it appears that the bulk carrier VLCC somehow lost control and barely […]
