Tanker News – Captain Joseph Hazelwood, Former Master of the Exxon Valdez, Passes Away – July 2022
Captain Joseph Jeffrey Hazelwood, the Master of the crude oil tanker EXXON VALDEZ when she ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound near Valdez, Alaska on 24th March 1989, has passed away at the age of 75. The EXXON VALDEZ spill is the second largest in U.S. waters, after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in […]
Tugboat News – Vernicos Scafi Tugs acquire GARIBALDO – December 2021
Vernicos Scafi Tugs and Salvage Maritime Co, the Greek company also owned by the Italian Scafi group active in towage & salvage in Greece, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Red Sea, has announced the purchase of the tugboat GARIBALDO. GARIBALDO was built in China by Guangdong Hope Yue Shipbuilding Industry at Guangzhou […]
Casualties – MFA 384 PEPPINA at Marsalforn Bay, Gozo – 13.11.2021
On Saturday 13th November, 2021 thanks to Alldive Ltd Personnel together with TugMalta Personnel saved the 12.65 metre fishing vessel MFA 384 PEPPINA from sinking though her stern was already underwater at Marsalforn Bay, Gozo. Normally MFA 384 PEPPINA is moored at the Menqa in Marsalforn Bay of which last June she was spotted there […]
Local Shipping – BEEZER
One of the ships involved in Oil Spill Response is the 1990 built RTK 412 Ramped Craft BEEZER. She arrived aboard the research ship NORTHELLA back in 2001 (NORTHELLA article – https://maltashipnews.com/2021/10/17/research-survey-vessel-northella/ )of which she was stored at Cassar Ship Repair Yard. Apart from oil spill response she’s used for other purposes such as transportation […]
Casualties – Collision in Welland Canal, Canada – 11.07.2020
On Saturday 11th July, 2020 around 1600 hrs the 2004 built general cargo ship FLORENCE SPIRIT collided with the 2010 built heavy lifter ALANIS at the Welland Canal. The Transportation Safety Board are investigating the collision on the Welland Canal during what should have been a routine manoeuvre. ALANIS was heading up the canal toward […]
Naval News – USS PHILIPPINE SEA Commanding Officer relieved after bunker spill – 18.05.2020
Captain Erica Hoffman, a New York native and Naval Academy graduate of which she was the commanding officer of the US Navy guided missile cruiser USS PHILIPPINE SEA CG 58 since 26th April, 2019 was relieved of her posting by the commander of Carrier Strike Group Two on Monday 18th May due to a “loss […]
Casualties – Iranian tanker SABITI struck by Missile Attacks – 11.10.2019
Iranian state controlled media outlet PressTV reported that 2 separate explosions, possibly caused by missile attacks, have hit an Iranian oil tanker operated by the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC) near the Saudi port city of Jeddah. The report quotes NITC as saying that the incident involved the suezmax tanker SABITI and took place some […]
Accidents – Injuries and Deaths while ship is scrapped – 03.09.2019
An accident killed two shipbreaking workers and injured 13 others while they were scrapping the container ship CSL VIRGINIA at Ziri Subedar Shipbreaking Yard in Chattogram, Bangladesh, last Saturday, August 31st. Eyewitnesses said that a heavy cable had collapsed on the container ship and struck 15 workers at once. Two were killed instantly while the remainder […]
CASUALTY – 40 Years Ago – AMOCO CADIZ – 16.03.1978 On 16 March 1978, the very large crude carrier (VLCC) AMOCO CADIZ lost her steering in a Force 10 storm and grounded on Portsall Rocks off the coast of Brittany, France. As she broke up, the tanker lost her entire cargo of 1.6 million barrels of crude […]
Oil spill at Malta Freeport Terminal August 1st Afternoon – An oil spill clean-up operation is under way at Malta Freeport Terminal after the toxic liquid leaked into the sea while a berthed vessel underwent bunkering operations. Teams from Malta Freeport Terminal, Cassar Ship Repair and Transport Malta have been working throughout the night and […]
