Tugs & Salvage News
EU Puts Funding Into New Maritime Security Center for the Western Black Sea
The European Union plans to invest EUR50 million to build a joint Romanian-Bulgarian maritime security hub for the Black Sea regio...
Read More >>Famed Ocean Liner SS United States to be Sunk on Veterans Day
On Monday, the storied ocean liner SS United States departed Mobile, Alabama for her final journey to an artificial reef site off...
Read More >>USCG Medevacs Four Tanker Crewmembers With Food Poisoning
On Sunday morning, the U.S. Coast Guard conducted a medevac to airlift the crew of a product tanker off Puerto Rico after a report...
Read More >>Tank Barge Loses Wheelhouse in Bridge Allision on Belgian Canal
On Saturday morning, an inland tank barge hit a bridge over a canal near Izegem, Belgium, tearing off the wheelhouse and dislodgin...
Read More >>Brazilian Navy Rescues 70-Year-Old Sailor in the Atlantic
Brazil's navy has rescued an American single-handed sailor who had sustained an injury during a race across the South Atlantic. Gu...
Read More >>Houthi Forces Hit Saudi Aramco's Headquarters Building
On Sunday, having previously hit Saudi oil infrastructure from Ras Tanura in the east to Yanbu in the west, Houthi forces took an...
Read More >>HKC and Basel: Two Conventions, One Ship, And a Shared Way Forward
A ship can arrive at a recycling yard with its certificates in order. That does not establish where its asbestos will end up, whet...
Read More >>Tanker Burns After Strike in Strait of Hormuz
On Saturday, at least two tankers were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz, including one that caught fire. The first vessel was tran...
Read More >>An Ocean of Services
For more than a century, you could gauge the state of the marine salvage industry by the number of Lloyd’s Open Form (LOF) cases....
Read More >>Salvage of the MSC Baltic III Wreck Prepares to Remove Final Stern Sections
The salvage efforts in Newfoundland, Canada, to clear the wreck of the containership MSC Baltic III continue to report strong prog...
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