Marine Insurance Legal
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- Wakashio captain insists chief officer is to blame for grounding February 24, 2021In his third and latest appearance before a Mauritian court of investigation, the captain of wrecked bulk carrier Wakashio, Sunil Kumar Nandeshwar, has continued to insist that it was the ....
- Supreme Court allows appeal in Eversmart case February 24, 2021In the first appeal to the UK Supreme Court relating to the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972 (Collision Regulations), the Supreme Court has allowed the appeal ....
- Lebanese court dismisses judicial investigator February 24, 2021A Lebanese court last week dismissed Judge Fadi Sawan, who had led the investigation into last August's explosion in the port of Beirut, one of the largest non-nuclear blasts in ....
- Wakashio master admits he had drunk alcohol on night of grounding February 22, 2021Sunil Kumar Nandeshwa, the Indian captain of the grounded wreck Wakashio, has admitted that he had been drinking before the vessel hit a Mauritius reef in July 2020, but continued to claim that ....
- Conception captain pleads not guilty to manslaughter charges February 19, 2021The captain of sunken scuba diving vessel Conception has pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges. Jerry Boylan was arraigned in federal court in Los Angeles on 34 counts of ....
- Autonomous Ships: Mass Mutations: Part Two, Regulation February 19, 2021Marine-focused legal firm HFW has released an update on its bulletin published in September 2020 last year, which considered the developments of Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) ....
- Differences emerge in court between Wakashio captain and chief officer February 18, 2021Different versions of the events that led up to the grounding of bulk carrier Wakashio (IMO 9337119) have emerged from the now wrecked vessel's captain and chief officer, from India and ....
- South Korean coastguard chief cleared over Sewol rescue operations February 18, 2021Kim Suk-kyoon, the former chief of the South Korean Coastguard has been cleared of negligence over errors made during the rescue operations of the Sewol shipwreck in April ....
- Steamship: Stowaways and International Protection in Italy February 18, 2021Steamship's Genoa correspondent Studio Legale Mordiglia has reported that the firm recently assisted a shipowner in connection with a stowaway on board a ship calling at an ....
- Owner and captain of chemical/oil products tanker reported as arrested February 16, 2021The shipowner of chemical/oil products tanker Vulcanello M (IMO 9337779), along with the vessel's captain, have been reported as arrested by several Italian media outlets ....