Tag: India

A fishing boat with about 40 students onboard, capsized off the coast of Dahanu in Palghar district of Maharashtra in India. While the exact number of the children onboard the vessel is still unclear, local media report that three girls have lost their lives, with 32 students having being rescued.

The idea was suggest during a meeting called by the Indian government in last month, in order to discuss a long-term perspective for shipping. In this project, Shipping Corporation of India Ltd (SCI) and Cochin Shipyard Ltd (CSL), both run by the state, will take part.

Cyprus and India proceeded to sign a new agreement on merchant shipping, which entered into force last month and replaced a previous agreement between thew two countries, which was signed in the past, on 11 February 1997.

Oil tanker shipping company 'Frontline', forecasts that shipping firms will scrap more old vessels in the following years, a development that may cause a recovery in rates for the remaining global fleet in the second half of 2018.

India’s total containerized cargo capacity of 8.75 million TEUs at all its 12 major ports is less than a quarter of containerized goods handled at China’s single port of Shanghai, making it imperative for the country "to do a fast catching up", noted India's ASSOCHAM in a new report.

India has dismantled 300 vessels in 2016, Bangladesh 220, Pakistan 140 and China 70. However, as far as gross tonnage is concerned, Bangladesh leads the way, having dismantled over nine million tonnes. The regulation complies with the Hong Kong convention, which was adopted by IMO in 2009.

Participants at the 2017 Capacity Building Workshop, being held in New Delhi under the theme “Striding Over Domestic Challenges”, will pool case studies drawn from recent incidents from their respective countries, discuss challenges, and share best practices to deal with the evolving patterns of piracy and armed robbery against ships in Asia.

The Indian government has drafted legislation to ratify the IMO's Hong Kong Convention on safe ship-recycling, Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari was quoted as saying. The Convention will enter into force 24 months after it is ratified by 15 States. At the moment, only six states have acceded.

The six British maritime security guards of the MV Seaman Guard Ohio, known as the ‘Chennai 6’, have won their appeal against false weapons licence charges in the India Appeal Court, on Monday.

Nirmal Singh Rawat, 27, lived a very challenging experience after he was stranded by the owner of the 'MT Hamed 2' oil tanker, which was anchored five nautical miles off the shore, in the borders of Sharjah and Ajman.