A seven-hour search and rescue operation recovered a body on Saturday believed to be that of a seafarer who went overboard from a gas carrier anchored off Margate, UK during storm Dennis.

A large crude oil tanker caught fire in the Persian Gulf west of the Strait of Hormuz, and rescue operations have evacuated the crew to safety.

The US Coast Guard (USCG) has suspended the search for three seafarers missing from a tugboat collision in the Mississippi on Sunday.

Three crew are missing following the collision of two tugs in the Mississippi that resulted in a sulphuric acid spill.

General Average has been declared on an 8,400 teu German containership Northern Jupiter that suffered an engine fire on 4 January in the Malacca Strait.

Bureau Veritas (BV) is this month introducing a new Enhanced Cargo Fire Protection (ECFP) notation for containerships.

Two Kotug vessels came to the rescue of a Euroseas containership stricken by an engine fire off Mozambique on Monday.

The team from specialist shipping lawyers Bentleys, Stokes and Lowless in London is joining Ince’s shipping team.

The search has been suspended for two missing from a fishing boat involved in a collision with chemical tanker Bow Fortune on Tuesday in Galveston.

The search is continuing for two fisherman missing from a collision with the chemical tanker Bow Fortune in Galveston, which happened while the tanker was under pilotage according to owners Odfjell tankers.