Semi-submersible accommodation vessel OOS Tiradentes has become the first offshore rig to resume operations in Brazil following Petrobras’ shutdown of facilities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
At least 11 workers were crushed to death after a huge crane collapsed at an Indian shipyard in Vishakhapatnam, in southern India, the Indian Express reported. The incident took place at the government-owned Hindustan Shipyard Limited on Saturday afternoon, August 1, injuring several other workers a
Norwegian oil major Equinor has received safety consent from the country’s offshore safety watchdog to use the Maersk Intrepid jack-up rig on the Martin Linge field offshore Norway.
Maintenance-related issues led to the January 2018 engine room fire on board the container vessel MOL Prestige in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia (BC), the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) determined in its investigation report.
Earlier this week, the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) and the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) jointly published the COVID-19 EU guidance for cruise ships.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has banned another Liberian-flagged bulk carrier this week — this time, the 93,200 dwt TW Hamburg.
The seafarer community is in the midst of a mental health crisis due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the seafarers’ welfare and that of their families, the latest edition of the Seafarers Happiness Index (SHI) published by the Mission to Seafarers shows. The SHI is a barometer of the key
A large bulk carrier MV Wakashio ran aground at Pointe D’Esny, Mauritius on July 25. The Panamian-flagged Capesize bulker, built in 2007, was underway in the Indian Ocean from China to Brazil when it ran aground on a reef a few meters from the beach. The 203,000 dwt ship is managed by Japanese compa
Following the release of G+ Offshore Wind Health and Safety Association’s 2019 statistics, Dropsafe has called for a more systematic approach to tackling dropped object incidents (drops) throughout the supply chain. According to the G+ report, there was a 44 per cent increase compared to 2018, howev
Forty-five crew members were evacuated from a fire-stricken ferry off Cebu on Thursday, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said.
The South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) has released from detention MSC Palak, a 9,411 TEU containership that lost more than 20 containers overboard in Algoa Bay last week.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) is launching a focused inspection campaign targeting cargo securing arrangements on containerships visiting Australian ports.
Production from the HMDC-operated Hibernia platform offshore Newfoundland, Canada, has been shut-in following a discharge of drilling and production fluids.
Cyberattacks on the maritime industry’s operational technology systems have increased by 900% over the last three years with the number of reported incidents set to reach record volumes by year-end, according to Israeli cybersecurity specialist Naval Dome. Addressing port and terminal operators duri
