Tag: fishing vessels

As Gard P&I Club informs, after the fishing ban in China is lifted on September first, operators of ships transiting the area should be aware that there is a risk of collision with fishing vessels. 

After a 28-hour long operation, the Liberian Armed Forces last week freed 23 foreigners taken captive by pirates on board a Chinese fishing vessel.

Marcelo Covelli who is the National Director of the Marine and Inland Waters Investigations Directorate of the Transport Safety Board (Junta de Seguridad en el Transporte) of Argentina,  highlights the importance of considering the human and organizational factors from a systemic approach in an incident investigation.

According to AMSA, the recent search for the crew of a Chinese ocean-going fishing vessel, the Lu Peng Yuan Yu 028, underscored the crucial role merchant shipping plays in maritime search and rescue. 

Yesterday, New Zealand became the latest country to accede to the fishing vessel safety treaty, the 2012 Cape Town Agreement, according to IMO.

On 30th May, a fishing vessel sunk after colliding with a pilot boat on the James River at the Port of Virginia.

As the Nautical Institute reports, a tanker loaded with condensate oil was underway in darkness and good visibility at about 10 knots. It was sailing in a coastal area with many fishing vessels in the vicinity.

On 24th May, the Russian Ministry of Defense released a video, in which he claims that a Russian surveillance ship had been attacked by Ukrainian drone boats in the Black Sea, about 90 miles northeast of Turkey's Bosphorus Strait.

According to International news, on Wednesday 17th May, 39 people reported missing after a Chinese fishing boat capesized in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

Sea Shepherd Global has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of Tuvalu, committing to send a ship to the South Pacific island country to support law enforcement efforts to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing through at-sea patrols.