The United Nations has urged Gulf countries and maritime stakeholders to help evacuate about 6,000 seafarers stranded across the Strait of Hormuz and nearby waters.
Search teams rescued 45 people after the Vietnamese cargo vessel Khoi Nguyen 18 sank near Fiery Cross Reef, while 17 people remained missing.
A Mumbai court sentenced 44 Somali pirates to life imprisonment in two cases involving the hijackings of MV Ruen and the Iranian fishing vessel Al-Kambar 786.
Boskalis has deployed its new 31,000 m3 dredger Seaway on coastal protection works off Den Helder after construction by Royal IHC and North Sea trials.
A pirate action group remains aboard an unnamed chemical/oil tanker hijacked off Yemen. The vessel was reported near Bereeda as authorities monitored its movement towards Somali waters.
The crew of MOL-managed LNG Saturn received an IMO Letter of Commendation after rescuing six people from KM Limadai 8 in the Strait of Malacca.
Dynacom Tankers’ Kavomaleas was abandoned after two projectiles caused an engine-room fire near Kumzar, Oman. All crew members were rescued and taken safely ashore.
Sinokor Group has offered tanker crews six months’ extra salary for a one-month voyage through the Strait of Hormuz amid attacks on shipping in the Persian Gulf.
Dismantling of MSC Baltic III has begun off Newfoundland as Resolve Marine removes the accommodation block and prepares to pull the wreck’s forward section ashore.
