Tag: barges

While the principles of navigation, stability, and cargo securing on tug and barge units remain the same as for ocean-going cargo vessels, the towing operation of barges comes with its own sets of related hazards.

NTSB published its investigation report into the collision of the bulk carrier Jalma Topic, with a barge on the Lower Mississippi River near New Orleans, Louisiana.

NYK Line, Nihon Shipyard (NSY), ClassNK, and IHI Corporation (IHI) signed a joint research and development agreement for the commercialization of an ammonia floating storage and regasification barge (A-FSRB).

The bulk carrier Honwin collided with the barge Bina Marine 59, on June 11 in Singapore Strait.

Eighteen containers were swept overboard from a barge en route from Trang province to Penang island in Malaysia on May 29, with some washing up on a beach in Satun.

Fire agencies fight a barge fire on the Delaware Bay that has kept them busy since they first responded with the US Coast Guard in the early hours of May 23.

A giant barge has smacked into Vancouver's seawall, just short of the Burrard Bridge after becoming unmoored in Monday's rain and wind storm. 

Crowley Maritime Corporation has signed a long-term time charter with Shell providing for the building and operation of a new, U.S.-built, LNG bunker barge.

The American P&I Club shared best practices aiming to reduce the number of breakaways and other incidents from barge fleeting areas within the river systems of the US. 

Following the sinking incident of "Barge P305" off Mumbai, the Indian Navy informed that so far 188 of the 261 people who were on board, were rescued. https://twitter.com/indiannavy/status/1394944014915276808 To remind, Barge P305 sank on Monday 17th May, during the severe Cyclone Tauktae. Until now, as many as 26 personnel on board the barge are dead, while 49 still missing, after Navy personnel, battling extreme weather. In light of the situation, Indian Navy launched a fresh aerial search and rescue mission, deploying helicopters to scour the waters off Mumbai coast, where the accommodation barge P305 went adrift in Cyclone Tauktae fury before it sank Monday. "The Navy's Search and Rescue (SAR) operations entered the fourth day today. Naval ships and aircraft are presently undertaking SAR of the missing crew members of Accommodation Barge P-305, which sank on Monday 35 miles off Mumbai," ....a Navy spokesperson told to local media sources. Overall, ships & aircraft will continue to search for the missing crew members.