Safety at Sea – Maritime

NAPA, MOL, and ClassNK push on with navigational risk monitoring system

Leave a Comment / International, Navigation, Post, Research, Safety at Sea / By Maritime Magazine

Helsinki, Finland and Tokyo – NAPA, a maritime software, service and data analysis provider, alongside classification society, ClassNK, and Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL), announced that the software they have been collaborating on to intelligently monitor and mitigate grounding risks has been verified as successful in its proof-of-concept stage. Following the proof-of-concept stage, MOL, …

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Transport Canada urged to impose special new safety regulations to protect workers on undersized tugboats

Leave a Comment / Crewmwmbers, Post, Safety at Sea, tugs, Union workers / By Maritime Magazine

Wainwright Marine Services Ltd.’s “Ingenika” tugboat went missing in the Gardner Canal area south and east of Kitimat on Feb. 11, resulting in two deaths and the rescue of a third man. (Wainwright Marine Photo) The union which represents tug workers on Canada’s West Coast has asked Transport Canada to require formal safety management …

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Two mariners drown after tugboat capsizes off BC coast

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Wainwright Marine Services operate seven tugs and ten barges from Prince Rupert. (Photo: Wainwright Marine Services Ltd./Facebook) Two mariners drowned and one was rescued after a tugboat capsized early last Thursday morning in the Gardner Canal, 35 nautical miles south of Kitimat, northern British Columbia. Very windy conditions reportedly caused the incident. Owned by …

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Lifeboat drill accident injures two crew members in Vancouvers’ English Bay

Leave a Comment / Canadian Coast Guard, Crewmwmbers, Post, Safety at Sea / By Maritime Magazine

According to a CBC report, two crew members on the Panamanian-flagged 78,819 DWT bulk carrier Blue Bosporus, were seriously injured in English Bay, Vancouver. The 12-year-old vessel was conducting a routine drill when the lifeboat unexpectedly released. The Coast Guard’s Marine Communications and Traffic Services (MCTS) issued a mayday. The Canadian Coast Guard responded, along …

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New technology may weaken seafarers’ professional judgment (Forum)

Leave a Comment / Crewmwmbers, Feature, Forum EN, International, Post, Research, Safety at Sea, Technology / By Maritime Magazine

By Guro Kulset Merakerås A good sailor has traditionally been a person who makes decisions that ensure that their ship, cargo and crew are safe. Good seamanship has not been synonymous with following procedures and doing everything by the book. Maybe just the opposite. Opposing a set of rules that are perceived as irrelevant or …

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Canada’s first Indigenous-led Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary begins operations in British Columbia

Leave a Comment / Canadian Coast Guard, First Nations, Government, Ports, Post, Safety at Sea, St-Laurent, St. Lawrence River, Trois-Rivières / By Maritime Magazine

Mr. Robert Stacey Paul Johnson, Heiltsuk CN-CGA Zone Coordinator Victoria, BC, – The Coastal Nations Coast Guard Auxiliary (CN-CGA) commenced on-water operations this fall in the territorial waters of Ahousaht and Heiltsuk First Nations, becoming the first Indigenous-led Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary in Canada. CN-CGA response units in Nisga’a, Gitxaala, and Kitasoo/Xai’xais territorial waters will …

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Shocking WMU report underlines why seafarers work such long hours

Leave a Comment / Associations, Covid-19, Crewmwmbers, Human rights at sea, International, Post, Safety at Sea / By Maritime Magazine

New research from a team at the World Maritime University (WMU) underlines systemic failures in the implementation of the regulatory regime for seafarers’ hours of work and rest, undermining the credibility of international regulations relating to working hours. ‘A culture of adjustment’, by Dr. Raphael Baumler, Ms. Yvette deKlerk, Dr. Michael Ekow Manuel and Dr. …

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New Canada regulations to improve marine safety, security and the protection of marine environments

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OTTAWA -The Government of Canada has reached another milestone in its commitment to keep improving the safety of Canada’s transportation sector by modernizing legislation and regulations. The Minister of Transport, Marc Garneau, today announced that the Government of Canada has published the new Marine Navigation Safety Regulations, 2020, which now apply to commercial vessels of all sizes, including fishing vessels, workboats, water taxis and …

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New marine safety equipment for Nunavut and Manitoba communities

Leave a Comment / arctique, Canadian Coast Guard, First Nations, Government, Post, Safety at Sea / By Maritime Magazine

Photo of Pond Inlet by Nunatsiaq News OTTAWA, ON – Through the Oceans Protection Plan, the Government of Canada is working in partnership with Indigenous coastal communities to improve marine safety and responsible shipping to protect Canada’s marine environment. As part of this $1.5 billion plan, in 2017 the Canadian Coast Guard launched the Indigenous Community Boat Volunteer Pilot Program. Under …

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Too easily forgotten heroes under COVID-19 (Forum)

Leave a Comment / Covid-19, Crewmwmbers, Feature, Forum EN, Humanitarian, International, Safety at Sea / By Maritime Magazine

Widely regarded as the senior statesman of world maritime journalism, Michael Grey* offers, in our FORUM section, an impassioned commentary on seafarers as the too easily forgotten heroes of COVID-19. “Seafarers at the core of shipping’s future” might seem somewhat an obvious observation – a bit like suggesting that the sea is a necessary adjunct to …

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