Watch: Coaster Grounded On A Highway In Japan
A general cargo vessel dubbed POSEIDON reportedly ran onto a highway embankment based in Yanai City, Yamaguchi Prefecture in Japan, on 29 November, while sailing to Hiroshima from Mitajiri.
A general cargo vessel dubbed POSEIDON reportedly ran onto a highway embankment based in Yanai City, Yamaguchi Prefecture in Japan, on 29 November, while sailing to Hiroshima from Mitajiri.
This week-end, a vessel of the Japanese company ONE (Ocean Network Express) made its first port of call equipped with a new device : a wind deflector on the bow.
In the early morning hours, a loaded tanker with seven metres of freeboard was approaching port at about 6.5 knots. There was a light wind and seas of approximately 1 metre. Visibility was good, but it was still dark; sunrise was in about one hour and 45 minutes.
In October, the captain of a speedboat reportedly pleaded guilty to the boat being overloaded, misleading the police inquiry but not endangering the lives of others in an accident that took place almost three years back and reportedly resulted in the death of one of the passengers.
Future seafarers from the Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific (MAAP) are no longer required to carry voluminous certificates with them when they depart for sea duties to oceangoing vessels.
A 28-year-old cruise ship guest managed surviving 15 hours at sea in the US after he fell overboard during the Thanksgiving weekend.
On 25 November, a Chinese coast guard vessel with the largest cannon ever seen on such a vessel crossed Japan’s territorial seas close to the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, per Japan’s coast guard.
A Republic of China (ROC) Navy landing craft sank close to Taiwan’s offshore Kinmen County on Thursday after big waves and poor weather resulted in cabin flooding, per the ROC Naval Fleet Command.
A ceremony was reportedly conducted on Friday for welcoming and celebrating the arrival of the first-ever large, special, and dynamic-positioning shallow-water vessel of the world dubbed the Bureau of Geophysical Prospecting Inc. Innovator.
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