Tag: containerships

NTSB published its report on the engine room fire aboard the containership President Eisenhower, that took place on April 28, 2021, off California.

CMA CGM announced that it will implement the Early Container Return Incentive Program at the FMS terminal in Los Angeles and all CMA CGM return locations in Chicago, Dallas, Kansas City, and Memphis.

Marine insurer Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS) issued the Safety & Shipping Review 2022, explaining that large vessels continue to drive ever-higher exposures, with fires, container and carrier losses, hazardous cargo, costlier salvage operations and issues with port of refuge leading to oversized losses and general average becoming more frequent.

On April 29, the Crown Prince of Norway, Haakon Magnus, celebrated the christening of Yara Birkeland, the world’s first electric, autonomous container vessel.

The Panama-registered container ship Marcos V lost the 40-foot containers around the Dutch Wadden islands while en route to Germany in heavy winds, on February 19.

A Japanese container ship is being retrofitted for autonomous shipping as part of the Designing the Future of Full Autonomous Ships (DFFAS) project.

The container ship CSL Santa Maria narrowly avoided a grounding on the Japanese island of Okinoshima last weekend. 

The containership Mumbai Maersk that was grounded off the German island of Wangerooge in the North Sea  earlier this week, has now been refloated.

A series of incidents with exceptional container losses took place during the winter season 2020-2021, leading to the creation of the TopTier project to find ways to avoid similar incidents in the future.

A giant Maersk containership the Mumbai Maersk, has grounded off the German island of Wangerooge in the North Sea, on January 2.