Tag: leakage

Approximately 45,000 gallons of diesel fuel were spilled in Lake Michigan from a freighter close to Manistee., the US Coast Guard said on 5th August. 

The Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel (SGMF) has received several reports of issues and LNG leakages related to the connection and connectors used between hose bunker systems and the gas-fuelled vessel manifolds.

A federal grand jury accused three companies with illegally discharging oil during a pipeline break in early October.

IMCA released its latest Safety Flashes, summarizing an incident of oil leakage from cylinder head cover.IMCA

The majority of casualties at sea are caused by a chain of failures occurring at the same time. As Mr. Ansuman Ghosh Director of Risk Assessment at UK P&I Club explained, due to the nature of shipping and the heavy-duty equipment onboard, these casualties often involve some form of catastrophic machinery failure.

After an investigation conducted in the drill ship 'Sagar Bhushan', which suffered an explosion at Cochin shipyard, it showed that it was probably caused by leakage of acetylene gas. This is the initial investigation which indicated the probable cause, and further investigation will take place in order to definitively determine the cause of the explosion.

The Steamship Mutual P&I Club issued an alert, informing that it has recently encountered several claims for cargo damage and other liabilities caused by leakage from the manhole covers of either ballast or bunker tanks.

Flooding of engine room on February 2013 The Danish Maritime Accident Investigation Board (DMAIB) has issued Marine Accident Report on EMMA Maersk flooding of engine room last February.On the evening of 1st February 2013, a severe leakage occured in the container ship EMMA Maesrk while the ship, loaded with general cargo in about 14,000 containers. was about to pass southbound through the Suez Canal.The leakage was caused by a mechanical break-down of a stern thruster situated at the aft part of the ship's shaft tunner whereby the shaft tunnel was flooded. The bulkhead between the shaft tunnel and the main engine room could not withstand the hydrostratic water pressure and eventually the main engine room was also flooded.The situatino became complicated because the ship had just initated a passage in a convoy through the Suez Canal. Loss of the ship's own propulsion, electric power, steerage and manoeuvrability could be foreseen and eventually occurred.The main technical sequence of events were a break-down of the forward stern thruster causing a major leakage into the shaft tunnel, a collapse of the watertight integrity of the bulkhead between the shaft tunnel and the engine room, primarily caused by non-effectivecable penetration sealings and some undesirable ...

Turkey to implement a revised Pollution Fine Tariff for 2013

Update on Emma Maersk