St Lawrence Seaways: Precaution While Watering Deck
St Lawrence Seaways Authority has issued notice 12/2025 advicing precaution while vessels are watering the deck. With warmer temperatures, ships are taking precautions to reduce hogging conditions by running cool…
AMSA: Revised SMS’s Guidelines for Domestic Commercial Vessel
AMSA has revised the Marine Order 504 (Certificates of operation – national law) 2024 (MO504) and is now available. The marine order contains several changes to SMS requirements. These changes…
Global Ro-Ro Community Develops Guidelines for Calculating GHG Emission Intensity for Ro-Ro Ships
On April 14, the Global Ro-Ro Community (GRC)* including Eastern Car Liner Ltd., Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd., Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd., Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, Wallenius Wilhelmsen ASA, and ClassNK…
Cargo Vessel Runs Aground off Malmo, Crew in Custody for Alcohol Consumption
Cargo vessel Ali Aykin, IMO 9166510 with container capacity ran aground near Oresund Bridge near Malmo, Sweden on 25 May 2025. As per information, Swedish authorities detained a crew member…
Panama Flag Tightens STS Requirement to Stop Dark Fleet Tankers
In a move aligned with the standards of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), Panama has strengthened its requirements for ship-to-ship (STS) oil transfer operations involving tankers registered under its flag.…
Container Vessel MSC Elsa 3 Capsized, All Crew Rescued by Indian Coast Guard
MSC Elsa 3 which developed heavy list of 26 degrees on 24th May 2025 around 38 NM off Kochi, capsized early morning today. Indian Coast Guard had rescued all crew…
Container Vessel MSC Elsa 3 in Distress, Indian Coast Guard in Action for Rescue
Indian Coast Guard, MRCC, Mumbai received a Distress Alert from Liberia-flagged container vessel MSC ELSA 3 as they developed approx 26° list 38 nautical miles southwest of Kochi. Vessel departed…
Panama Canal: Safe Boarding Week
Maritime Cook Islands (MCI), the Cook Islands Ship Registry, is seeking clarification regarding its abrupt removal from the Registry Information Sharing Compact (RISC) database. MCI was informed on May 8,…
Maritime Cook Islands Seeks Clarification on RISC Removal
Maritime Cook Islands (MCI), the Cook Islands Ship Registry, is seeking clarification regarding its abrupt removal from the Registry Information Sharing Compact (RISC) database. MCI was informed on May 8,…
US Treasury Issues Immediate Sanctions Relief for Syria
On 23rd May 2025, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued Syria General License (GL) 25 to provide immediate sanctions relief for Syria in line…