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Bulker hit by blaze

All crew now safe after flames tore through Indonesian vessel off Suralaya.
08:45 GMT, 15 May 2012
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Jebsen cement carrier refloated

Malta Cement cleared to proceed after suffering small crack to hull in grounding off Sweden.

14:51 GMT, 16 May 2012
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Pacific Glory gets refloated

Sinokor Merchant Marine’s VLCC resumes voyage following grounding off Malaysian coast last week.

03:26 GMT, 15 May 2012
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DonJon-Smit surveying Idil

US-Dutch salvage company on board stricken MSC containership conducting assessment into damage.

07:14 GMT, 15 May 2012
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NSB ship hit by leak scare

Part of Australia’s Port Botany shut after nitric acid spills from drum on German boxship.

10:01 GMT, 14 May 2012
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Charterer blamed for fuel fiasco

Pacific Bulk says Panos Earth hobbled by off-spec bunkers supplied by Chinese counter-party.

09:13 GMT, 10 May 2012
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Cement carrier goes hard aground

Coast guard says Jebsen cargoship stuck off Morko in Sweden with a breached hull.

14:24 GMT, 14 May 2012
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Seven crew killed in smash

One survivor found after collision with tug sinks sand barge in Argentina's Parana river.

06:18 GMT, 14 May 2012
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Blast hits MSC containership

Crew man the pumps after MSC Idil developed list and took on water following explosion north of Puerto Rico.

06:47 GMT, 14 May 2012
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Ready to step in

Door open at Rosgosstrakh for former Reso-Guarantia insured fleets but business has gone elsewhere.

15:25 GMT, 11 May 2012
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Swedish Club comes under fire

South African marine authority to blacklist insurer after it said it would stop covering disabled bulker Panos Earth.

10:20 GMT, 11 May 2012
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Search on for missing bulker man

Singapore coordinates mission to find seafarer suspected of falling from Genco Rhone.

06:41 GMT, 10 May 2012
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Armed pirates hijack Dynacom tanker

Journey from Port Said ends prematurely as gun-toting assailants seize Greek suezmax Smyrni.

16:28 GMT, 10 May 2012

Strength though loss

American Club chief sees major casualties as a demonstration of the financial integrity and claims handling efficiency of P&I clubs.

14:53 GMT, 11 May 2012

Confused on Costa

But Marcus Baker of Marsh questions whether there will ever be a hard insurance market again.

09:32 GMT, 10 May 2012

Plain sailing for now

But Stephen Hawke of PL Ferrari sees longer term pressures on the P&I market.

09:21 GMT, 10 May 2012
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CPP checks failed to stop smash

Fire on Dutch cargoship started steering problems that ended in collision with Svitzer tug in UK.

11:10 GMT, 10 May 2012
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Ro-ro grounded off Philippines

Grand Star RoRo 3 towed into port after getting stuck in shallow water at Sorsogon.

14:02 GMT, 11 May 2012
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Faktor officer found over limit

Crewman told police he fell asleep before grounding cargoship, but tests revealed alcohol in system.

10:37 GMT, 09 May 2012

Steimler blasts Norway

Culture change for Maersk

Ambitious risk retention programme is already yielding benefits for Danish shipping giant, insurance chief says.

16:43 GMT, 10 May 2012
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Bulker stuck off Cape Town

Bills mount as repairs to Chilean panamax Panos Earth’s engines move into eighth week.

10:03 GMT, 09 May 2012
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Oldendorff wrecks his McLaren

Shipping scion Christian Oldendorff makes splash in German media for all the wrong reasons after smash.

09:06 GMT, 07 May 2012
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Pierce Atwood poaches Partridge pair

Boston, Massachusetts-based law firm expands admiralty line-up with recruits from Partridge Snow & Hahn.

16:56 GMT, 09 May 2012
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Tea towel causes vessel fire

Fire crews tackle blaze on Australian research ship started by "spontaneously combusting" laundry.

07:03 GMT, 04 May 2012
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Car carrier refloated off Livorno

Hoegh Asia grounded with 6,000 cars on board as it entered Italian harbour.

07:19 GMT, 07 May 2012
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Dubai Star owners pay up

South Harmony Shipping and Pioneer Management agree to pay up to $2m settlement over San Francisco spill.

02:30 GMT, 10 May 2012
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Dock company sues Aboitiz Jebsen

Texas businessman wants damages from manager of cargoship King Yukon involved in 2010 collision

09:49 GMT, 04 May 2012
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Ro-pax sinks after German smash

Scandlines' Urd holed in hit by TT-Line ferry while berthed at Lubeck-Travemunde.

08:13 GMT, 04 May 2012
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Master dies after German collision

Captain suffers heart attack during police questioning on Elbe after dredger hit buoy.

06:58 GMT, 03 May 2012
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Fire breaks out in bulker hold

Canadian firefighters take two hours to extinguish blaze on Algoma Discovery at Hamilton.

09:25 GMT, 03 May 2012
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FR8 tanker strikes Rowan rig

Singaporean products carrier with ties to Torm suffers flooding after crashing into jack-up in the US Gulf.

20:57 GMT, 02 May 2012
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Maersk Line ship loses power

Gerd Maersk goes adrift 20 miles from Portguese coast after engine fails.

06:51 GMT, 27 Apr 2012
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Seven killed in tug blast

Four more workers injured as violent explosion hits Svitzer vessel off Ras Laffan in Qatar.

10:29 GMT, 01 May 2012
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Seatrade Groningen reefer held

Springbok one of seven fresh UK detentions in March after hull breach is discovered.

13:42 GMT, 01 May 2012
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Crewman buried by steel plates

Lithuanian seafarer seriously injured in accident on cargoship Red Cat at Bremen in Germany.

09:07 GMT, 02 May 2012
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Master guilty of ferry smash negligence

Drunk Polish captain of Union Moon admits failing to keep proper look-out before collision with Stena vessel.

06:55 GMT, 25 Apr 2012
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Drunk mate caused grounding

New Zealand report reveals Anatoki seafarer had put away four or five pints of beer before accident.

13:45 GMT, 27 Apr 2012
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