Tag: hazardous materials

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).

According to a new study from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, the combined emissions of metals and other environmentally toxic compounds from ships endangers the marine environment.

On March 8th, 2023 an oil rig caught fire in Mobile Alabama. The fire was put out but environmental concerns arise as the rig contained diesel, hydraulic fluid, oil and other potentially hazardous substances.