Ocean Infinity has been contracted by the Korean government to search for the wreck of the VLOC Stellar Daisy that sank on 31 March 2017 with the loss of 22 lives.
It hasn’t been easy, even among professionals, to have too much sympathy for Francesco Schettino, formerly master of the Costa Concordia, currently serving a 16 year prison sentence in Rome.
Outgoing Intercargo chairman John Platsidakis took a number of swipes at regulators during his farewell speech at the International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners’ agm in London this week.
Time is of the essence in ship casualty response and the way things are done now, operators are often already on the back foot with a delayed start to a process that can quickly escalate.
The criminalisation of two mariners in the case of collision involving the City of Rotterdam and the Primula Seaways is now reliably seen to have occurred after pleas of guilt which were put into Court “for personal reasons”.
Three vessels that grounded in the Port of Durban have been refloated, including the containership MSC Ines that blocked the entrance to the port. However, port operations remain suspended.
Typhoon Pakhar, Hong Kong's second typhoon in a week claimed yet another maritime casualty, with 11 crew having to be airlifted off a sinking cargo vessel about 64 nm east of the city on Sunday morning at the height of the storm.
