Tag: hazardous materials

The container vessel MSC ELSA 3 capsized approximately 38 nautical miles off the coast of Kochi, Kerala, India, while reportedly transporting hazardous cargo.

US Coast Guard Sector New York personnel conducted three warehouse spot checks at the Port of New York and New Jersey during the last week of April, uncovering a 60% deficiency rate in hazardous material compliance.  

Gard P&I Club informs operators on hazardous containerized cargo leakage and presents key measures to prevent these situations from escaping control. 

Draft amendments to update Bangladesh’s ship recycling and hazardous waste management legislation have been developed through the IMO’s SENSREC project, with the aim of aligning the industry with international environmental and safety standards, IMO informed.

In its latest quarterly report, NGO Shipbreaking Platform informs about the shipbreaking industry in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, providing an overview of the hazardous materials released during shipbreaking and their impact on human life, communities and the environment. 

An estimated 2,100 total metric tonnes of suspected hazardous waste packed in containers aboard the MOLIVA container ship returned to Durres.

The management of residues from solid bulk cargoes is a critical aspect of marine environmental protection, particularly under the current framework of MARPOL Annex V, which came into effect on January 1, 2013.

Thai authorities are working urgently to prevent around 100 shipping containers allegedly containing hazardous industrial waste from Albania from reaching the country, Bloomberg reports.

IMO has updated its Guidelines for the Development of the Inventory of Hazardous Materials (IHM), published as Resolution MEPC.379(80) which now include cybutryne as a substance to be included in the ship’s IHMs, if present on the ship. 

A cargo ship, MV Dali, crashed into the Baltimore Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, carrying 56 containers of hazardous materials weighing 764 tons, according to Jennifer Homendy, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).