12+ hour, 14+ min ago   (313+ words) After a serious collision between two bulkers in the Gulf of Kutch, the Indian Coast Guard has launched a major rescue and pollution-response operation to minimize the potential impact of the casualty. On September 11, the bulker KMax Emperor (IMO 9477426) and…...

12+ hour, 25+ min ago   (179+ words) As the Philippine Coast Guard searches the wreckage of the burned-out ferry June Aster, the death toll from the disaster has soared from five people to 76, with 13 still missing. Out of 132 people on board at departure, only 43 survived. Last Wednesday,…...

15+ hour, 44+ min ago   (82+ words) Published by Tom Peters The Ministry of Defence is already struggling to fund its existing programs, leading to in-year cuts to training and ammunition expenditure. But there are also immediate impacts on equipment procurement, particularly for the Royal Navy. Published…...

17+ hour, 15+ min ago   (299+ words) Published by Tom Peters Authorities in Indonesia are searching for an estimated 130 people after a ferry capsized in the Java Sea. The majority of the 108 survivors were rescued by a Good Samaritan merchant vessel, the MV Haida. The ship arrived…...

19+ hour, 44+ min ago   (166+ words) Published by Tom Peters Over the weekend, U.S. and Iranian forces continued to trade tit-for-tat maritime strikes on each others' shipping interests, though at smaller scale. This time, U.S. forces hit back with a smaller strike on a smaller target, inflicting limited…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (226+ words) Russia’s latest attack on commercial shipping killed and injured Azerbaijani citizens, prompting the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to issue a warning. It comes as Russia’s Ministry of Defense continues to assert that it is attacking shipping and infrastructure used…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (203+ words) Published by G. Allen Brooks Reports are coming in of a new vessel hijacking that happened earlier today, September 10, south of Yemen. The monitoring authorities issued alerts about a bulker that was approached and appeared to have been boarded while assets…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (174+ words) Published by G. Allen Brooks Two Western officials told Reuters that NATO forces had tracked Russian subs to a region off the coast of Svalbard. The vessels were associated with GUGI, the Main Directorate of Deep Sea Research, a spy-submarine outfit…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (380+ words) Published by G. Allen Brooks Officials in Panama are reporting that they are monitoring the salvage efforts on the Chinese car carrier Min Jiang Kou as a hot spot was detected more than a month after an engine room fire disabled…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (335+ words) Published by G. Allen Brooks The Canadian Coast Guard reports that the team from Resolve Marine continues to make good progress on the removal of the wreck of the MSC Baltic III. The 33,767-dwt vessel blacked out and was driven ashore in…...