(USATODAY)  A Carnival cruise ship pulling out of Cozumel late Wednesday collided with a Royal Caribbean ship docked nearby in an incident that has left both vessels damaged.  Source

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• Swire Shipping May face ban after compensation rejected

     Swire Shipping may face a ban on trade with Australian state Queensland following a rejection of its compensation offer made for environmental damage caused by oil spillage from its vessel the Pacific Adventurer (pictured) in March. The ship, which also lost 31 containers in the incident, was caught up in unfavourable

• Somali pirates on board, St Jamess Park opened fire on navy ship

    In an incident with the UK-flagged ship St James Park, abducted by Somali pirates on which five Bulgarian sailors are aboard, pirates opened fire from the deck and that of an adjacent ship against a navy vessel, presumed to be a US ship, international media reported. Reportedly more than 70

• Oil spill skipper to face court

    The captain of the Pacific Adventurer cargo vessel that spilled more than 270,000 litres of oil off the south Queensland coast will face court in Brisbane today. Filipino national Bernardino Gonzales Santos, 47, faces one charge of disposal of oil in coastal waters, which carries a fine of up to

• Coast Guard hearings held over in Port Arthur

     (coastguardnews) The Coast Guard adjourned the formal hearings, Thursday, concerning the Jan. 23, 2010, incident involving the tank vessel Eagle Otome, the Gull Arrow and the tug Dixie Vengeance

• Pirates Attack Tanker NC Stream from Guinea coast

    Tanker NS Stream owned by Novoship JSC was attacked by pirates off the coast of Guinea on Saturday night, the shipping company reports. According to captain NS Stream, the incident occurred when the vessel was 60 miles offshore the port of Conakry.

• Nuclear submarines for India again in Russian Docks

    Nuclear submarine, ‘Nerpa’ (Project 9711) has returned to Vostock and is now docked in the finishing dock of the Amur Shipyard in Russia after the second round of tests last week. The second round of tests began at the end of July and were necessary due to the death of 20

• Nuclear submarine for India returns to Russian docks

    Nuclear submarine, ‘Nerpa’ (Project 9711) has returned to Vostock and is now docked in the finishing dock of the Amur Shipyard in Russia after the second round of tests last week. The second round of tests began at the end of July and were necessary due to the death of 20

• Southeast oil spill clean-up devices behind the $ 30m bill

    EIGHTEEN state and local governments and agencies will claim $30,394,234 from Swire Shipping for the cost of mopping up Queensland’s worst oil spill.

• Somali pirates fire on U.S. helicopters, the Navy says

     (CNN) Pirates holding a Taiwanese-flagged ship off the coast of Somalia fired on a U.S. Navy helicopter Wednesday as the aircraft monitored the ship, the Navy said.  The helicopter was not struck and all crew members were safe after the incident, the Navy said in a news release.  Source

• Expert: Lithuanian hostage crisis could drag on

     A Lithuanian maritime expert says that any negotiations with pirates about the release of five Lithuanian sailors abducted in Nigeria could last months. Petras Bekeza, the chairman of Lithuania’s sailors’ union, says that the pirates who seized the crew members of a Lithuanian ship on Monday while it was docked in

• Tanker fire gets in Manila

    A motor tanker containing diesel caught fire while it was docked at Pier 18 of the Manila North Harbor early early Thursday morning. An initial investigation showed that the fire started inside the quarters of the ship crew at 1:30 a.m. Firemen immediately responded to the scene and put out

• Drugs will find boat sailor

     (BBC) A Royal Navy sailor has appeared in court charged with smuggling cocaine into Britain on a warship.  Teresa Matos, 36, was arrested after HMS Manchester docked in Plymouth, Devon, on 10 August. Source

• Ethiopia imports of 39,000 t of wheat Bulgarian

    A ship carrying 39,000 tonnes of Bulgarian milling wheat destined for Ethiopia has left the Black Sea port of Varna, a spokesman of the ship owner Navibulgar, said on Wednesday. Another ship due to transport an additional 39,600 tonnes of Bulgarian wheat to Ethiopia is expected to arrive in Varna

• Yemen says Somali pirates attack Yemeni Cargo

    Somali pirates have seized a Yemeni cargo vessel with a crew of 16 and are taking it out towards the Indian Ocean, a Yemeni Defence Ministry website said on Monday. The vessel, called Al Mahmoud 2, had left Yemen’s southern port of Aden on Dec

• Four dead in three weeks DSME immediate investigation calls

    Senior management at leading Korean yard Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering has promised a safety crackdown following a spate of fatalities in the first few weeks of 2010.