The US Coast Guard (USCG) has called off the search for two remaining missing crew from the dredger Waymon L Boyd, which caught fire and sank in the Port of Corpus Christi, while the bodies of two others were recovered.

The Isle of Man Ship Registry has maintained its place on the United States Coast Guard (USCG) QUALSHIP 21 programme.

Cyprus has joined the USCG’s Qualship 21 list after cementing its position on the Paris and Tokyo MoU ‘white lists’ in relation to the safety performance of flag administrations.

The US Coast Guard (USCG) evacuated an injured seafarer by helicopter from the containership Yang Ming Unanimity offshore San Francisco on Friday evening.

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.

It used to be assumed that provided the demands of the ship permitted, shore leave was, more or less, a “human right” of seafarers.

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.

A fishing vessel collided with the tanker Bow Fortune in Galveston, Texas leaving one dead and two missing