Casualties – EEMSLIFT HENDRIKA Salvage Update (0815 UTC) -07.04.2021
Boskalis has confirmed that its subsidiary Smit Salvage has been hired to salvage the EEMSLIFT HENDRIKA which is currently adrift as an abandoned ship after a heavy list with all crew rescued off the coast of Norway last Monday 5th April, 2021. Read also yesterday article – https://maltashipnews.com/2021/04/06/casualties-crew-abandon-ship-eemslift-hendrika-05-04-2021/ Salvage team arrived as early as Tuesday […]
Casualties – EEMSLIFT HENDRIKA Salvage Update (1930 UTC) -07.04.2021
Rough weather conditions prompted EEMSLIFT HENDRIKA salvage team to postpone salvage operation on Wednesday 7th April, 2021. “Life and health are always the number one priority in an event like this, and it must be safe to carry out the salvage,” said Norwegian Coastal Administration emergency response director Hans Petter Mortensholm in an update. Calculations […]
Cargo Loss – 260 containers lost , 65 damaged in MAERSK EINDHOVEN at sea mishap – 17.02.2021
On Wednesday 17th February, 2021 the 366 metre container ship MAERSK EINDHOVEN experienced an engine failure in severe weather off the coast of Japan, resulting in a number of containers being lost overboard. The ship was underway from Xiamen, China, to Los Angeles, California at the time. The company’s partner in the 2M Alliance, MSC, reported that […]
Livestock Ships – AL MAHMOUD 2
One of the livestock ships that was around is the 1986 built 149 metre long AL MAHMOUD 2 now trading as POLARIS 2. She was built in Japan by Shin Kurushima Onishi Shipyard at Imabari as the car carrier TOUKO MARU trading until April 1996; FUJIMARIN from 1996 to 2003; FUJIMARINE from 2003 to 2009. […]
