A barge owner has pleaded guilty in his case in a District Court in Tacoma to a number of violations of the Clean Water Act, including failure to report an oil leak of which he had full knowledge, and illegallyRead More

The chemical safety board (CSB) have released preliminary findings from their investigation into the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill tragedy that suggest that BP and Transocean may be held liable for the incident. The CSB report states that the oilRead More

Three children were killed after the yacht that they were travelling in capsized on the fourth of July weekend, 2012. The accident occurred off the Long Island coast in the state of the New York, as the yacht was returningRead More

Three men have been charged with manslaughter in connection with the July 2012 sinking of a crowded vessel off the coast of Zanzibar. The vessel, a passenger ferry that was transporting passengers between the two major islands of Zanzibar, overturnedRead More

Two sailors have been killed and three more crewmembers have been seriously injured following a blast on the MSC Flamina, a German cargo vessel. The ship was en route to Antwerp, Belgium from Charleston, South Carolina when the blast occurred,Read More

Oil giant Shell may be facing a hefty fine due to an oil spill from one of their exploration vessels off the coast of Nigeria early last year. It is estimated that the spill by Shell Nigeria Exploration and ProductionRead More

Four Afghan asylum seekers en route to Australia were killed on June 27 2012, after their vessel capsized off the coast of Indonesia’s largest island, Java. The remainder of the 134 passengers on board, largely children and women, were rescued.Read More

A lawsuit was filed on behalf of an injured sailor on July 27th 2012 alleging claims of negligence on the part of his employer, Hercules Offshore. The sailor, who wishes to remain anonymous, was working on a Hercules Offshore vesselRead More

A man who was injured while working offshore for the Texan marine support company Seacor Marine has filed a lawsuit against the company, citing negligence and vessel unseaworthiness. The man was performing his maintenance duties inside the engine room ofRead More

A number of prominent members of the maritime industry have proposed a set of new laws to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) that would make it mandatory for containers to be weighed before being loaded onto a cargo ship. TheRead More