Marine Hull

The latest marine hull and machinery related news and analysis.

• New Indian rules on ship ages unlikely to have much impact on global merchant fleet:research January 27, 2023
  Athens, Greece-based Xclusiv Shipbrokers has broken down what the new Indian rules on ship ages (IMN, January 25th) will mean in practice, and have concluded that they will probably have .....
• Disabled container ship to be towed across Pacific for repairs January 27, 2023
  Container ship GSL Eleni (IMO 9285677), which suffered a rudder jam on December 29th, was moved to Seattle, Washington State, on January 18th in order to offload containers on board ....
• New app for evidence gathering from North January 27, 2023
  North P&I Club has launched a mobile app which it said would make easier the gathering of evidence. It said that the app would make the collecting of evidence on incidents faster, easier ....
• New probe into 1994 sinking of the Estonia reveals construction flaws January 27, 2023
  Officials have said that a new investigation into the sinking of the ferry Estonia in the Baltic Sea in 1994, which claimed 852 lives, had revealed flaws in its bow visor construction that .....
• Marine accident round-up : 27th January 2023 January 27, 2023
  General cargo ship Peak Skorpo (IMO 9190353) was reported to have run aground whilst navigating the Nakskov Fjord, Denmark on January 23rd. Claims company WK Webster understood that .....
• Two dead, nine missing after ship sinks off Japan January 26, 2023
  As many as 11 crew were feared dead after 9,484 dwt general cargo ship Jin Tian (IMO 9578713) sank in icy waters between South Korea and Japan early on Wednesday January 25th ....
• Chinese freighter runs aground on Japanese coral reef January 26, 2023
  Chinese general cargo ship Xin Hai Zhou 2 (IMO 9507104) ran aground on a giant coral reef just off the Japanese island of Ishigaki, an outpost in Okinawa Prefecture that is located about .....
• Bulk carrier suffers water ingress off Queensland coast January 26, 2023
  Australian authorities responded to a call for assistance from bulk carrier Frontier Unity (IMO 9604976) while it was anchored near a coal port in Queensland ....
• Smooth Sea 22 was not the ship it claimed to be January 26, 2023
  When Thai-flagged oil products tanker Smooth Sea 22 (IMO 9870991) suffered an explosion and a subsequent fire on January 17th, few realized that the event would expose a case of .....
• Risks of in-transit fumigation – phosphine gas explosions January 26, 2023
  Gard recently published an article focusing on the toxicity of phosphine gas and the potential danger this posed to the crew when agricultural bulk cargoes and forestry products were .....