The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has issued a ‘refusal of access Direction’ to the Liberian-flagged bulk carrier KMAX Leader, effective 15 February 2024, banning the ship from entering Australian ports…

US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has taken action against three companies registered in Hong Kong and the Marshall Islands that own and operate a…

Riyadh MoU is launching a Concentrated Inspection Campaign (CIC) based on Safety of Navigation, SOLAS Chapter V. The purpose of this CIC is to ensure that ships comply with the…

Last quarter of year will again be similar as far as CIC by various PSC MOU is concerned. While most of the MOUs have announced the CIC and with the…

The Indian Ocean Memorandum of Understanding on port State control (IOMOU) held its eighteenth Committee meeting in Mauritius from the 25th – 28th of August, 2015. This meeting was hosted…

A container vessel was detained by USCG PSCO at Key Largo, Florida as Master was suspected in state of intoxication. The incident dates to 28th July 2015 during regular PSC…

The Coast Guard published a Marine Safety Information Bulletin 07/2015, advising maritime industry with respect to assessing potential contamination risks from the Tianjin explosions and the responsibility of vessel and…

Hong Kong flag administration has analysed the detention of its flag vessel for the period from 1 Jan 2015 to 31st July 2015. total 37 vessel were detained during this…

The UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) has established a website to verify validity and authenticity of UK Certificates of Competency (CoC) and Certificates of Equivalent Competency (CEC) Shipping Company,…

Singapore Flag administration, MPA has issued shipping circular 15/2015 dealing with email id and other requirement for SSAS. In this circular MPA advised new email id for SSAS test and…