Classification society ABS has published Guidance Notes on the Application of Cybersecurity Principles to Marine and Offshore Operations. The guidance note is the first volume in the ABS CyberSafety series, and provides best practices for cybersecurity as a foundational element of overall safety and security within and across the marine and offshore industries. ABS says…
The Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) of Singapore has issued its Investigation Report on last year’s grounding of the Indonesian registered passenger ferry MV Sea Prince, operated by fast ferry operator BatamFast. On November 29, 2015, at about 7.50 pm, while enroute from Nongsapura Ferry Terminal, Batam, to Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal, Singapore, the Sea…
Classification society ClassNK has released its annual report on Port State Control. The report aims to assist ship operators and management companies in maintaining compliant operations by providing information about ships detained by PSC as well as deficiencies found on board by many port states in 2016. ClassNK has included a breakdown of deficiencies which…
In a move aimed at boosting the fight against piracy and armed robbery against ships in Asia, the ReCAAP Information Sharing Center has signed an MOU with OCIMF. ReCAAP is the acronym of the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia, a regional government-to-government agreement to promote and enhance…
BIMCO and CIRM (Comité International Radio-Maritime) have sent the marine industry’s first proposal for an industry-wide standard for software maintenance for consideration at the February 2018 meeting of IMO’s Subcommittee on Navigation, Communications, Search & Rescue. The goal of the proposed Standard on Software Maintenance of Shipboard Equipment is to make sure software updates happen…
Maersk Line said today that the remains of three of the four crew members missing following the fire aboard Maersk Hunan have been found. The 15,262-TEU vessel was en route from Singapore to the Suez Canal when a fire broke out on March 6, when the vessel was about 900 nautical miles southeast of Salalah,…
Maersk Line reports that 20:50 EST yesterday, the Maersk Kensington, a vessel owned and operated by its U.S. flag subsidiary Maersk Line, Limited (MLL), reported a container on fire in a cargo hold while en route from Salalah, Oman, towards Suez. Maersk Line says that all 26 crew members are safe and accounted for and…
COSCO Shipping Lines has been hit by a cyber attack on its North American operations. Although the company reportedly identifies the problem as a ransomware attack in internal communications, for public consumption it is referring to it as a “network breakdown within America Regions” and is telling customers this: Due to local network breakdown within…
U.K. based Stena Drilling Limit has placed a significant part of its safety equipment and servicing management under a Viking Life Saving Equipment Offshore Safety Agreement (OSA). Stena Drilling Limited is a long time Viking customer and signed up for the agreement after an extensive survey, carried out by Viking earlier this year, revealed the…
Following the tragic fire aboard the containership Maersk Honam in March this year, in which five crew members lost their lives (see earlier story), Maersk took measures and implemented additional preliminary guidelines for stowage of dangerous goods. The company has now completed implementation of new guidelines to improve safety across its container vessel fleet and…
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