A crewmember aboard the carrier USS Harry S. Truman died last week due to a medical emergency, the U.S. Navy confirmed Tuesday. The sailor, identified as Florida resident Electrician’s Mate (Nuclear) 1st Class Jelani Hill, had an unspecified medical event on October…
The authorities in the Canary Islands responded after the pilot working an arriving containership reported that the captain of the vessel appeared to be intoxicated. Local media reports from Gran Canaria said the vessel was having difficulty carrying out a…
Singapore health officials announced on Thursday that they are implementing health screenings as a precaution against the new more virulent strain of mpox that has emerged in Africa. The move comes a week after China also announced it would start…
For the second time in approximately a month, one of CMA CGM’s large containerships, the newly inaugurated CMA CMG Belem (13,000 TEU) has lost boxes overboard in storms off South Africa. Industry observers had noted that the large boxships would…
The government of the Philippines confirmed that renewed efforts are underway to free the crewmembers of the hijacked car carrier Galaxy Leader. Officials said they have reports that several of the Filipino crewmembers are ill and called for a humanitarian release.…
A newly released report into the death of a crewmember aboard a Maltese-registered bulk carrier and the hospitalization of three others in July 2023 points to the impact of climate change on crewmembers and the challenges due to their working…
Crew welfare and maintaining basic rights covered under the nearly universal Maritime Labor Convention has become a growing concern and now the two leading umbrella organizations for Port State Control, Paris and Tokyo, are launching a coordinated inspection campaign. During…
When recreational divers Nathan and Kim Maker went on a trip off the coast of Texas last Wednesday, they thought that it would be a brief day outing. It turned into a multiday ordeal, afloat in the Gulf without a…
After eight years of struggling to resolve the fate of the now 145-year-old famed sailing ship Falls of Clyde, the Hawai‘i Department of Transportation (HDOT) reported on July 25 it released its request for proposals (RFP) for the removal of the ship.…
The crew of a British yacht had to be rescued after an orca sank their vessel in the Strait of Gibraltar, according to Spanish authorities. It is the latest in a long-running series of “interactions” between orcas and midsize sailing…