Apr 09 2021 Maritime insurer The Standard Club says that enclosed space fatalities are continuing to occur on ships, although much more on dry cargo vessels than tankers. A webinar on October 12 reviewed how the issue is evolving. “We continue seeing enclosed space fatalities onboard ships,” said Capt Yves Vandenborn, director of loss prevention with the Standard Club. “It just keeps happening at a very frequent rate.” He was speaking at a webinar on October 12 organised by the Standard Club and the International Ship Manager’s Association. The most recent public data available is from April 2019, when the International Transport Workers Federation announced that since January 2018, 16 dock workers and 12 seafarers had died from asphyxiation or explosions in confined spaces – or from falls after passing out due to bad air. This meant something of a spike, after seeing 145 casualties over the past 20 years (average 7 per year).
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CAIROâEgypt wonât release the massive container ship that blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week in March until its owners agree to pay as much as a billion dollars in compensation, according to local authorities, as they investigate how the Ever Given got stuck and shut down one of the worldâs most important waterways.
âThe vessel will remain here until investigations are complete and compensation is paid,â Osama Rabie, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, told state television in Egypt on Thursday.
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Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. Brian Mossman says he has read Moby Dick nearly 200 times. The 61-year-old captain of the container ship Maersk Sentosa says he revisits the Melville classic nearly every voyage, because each time reveals something new about the people who take to the sea: people like him and the two dozen merchant mariners on his crew.
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The Fijian shipping company that is being investigated for allegedly mistreating its foreign workers is facing a new accusation that it incorrectly registered one of its ferries.
The International Transport Workers Federation, ITF, said Goundar Shipping had registered the ferry Lomaiviti Princess 3 as being shorter and lighter than it actually is. This ferry somehow, on its transit from Canada to Fiji, lost 14 metres, said ITF inspector Sarah Maguire.
The ABC has seen a copy of the ferry s survey certificate, issued by the Maritime Safety Authority of Fiji in January last year, that puts the vessel s length at 100 metres.