February this year was marked by heightened Russian naval activity in the Indian Ocean. Russian naval task groups drawn from the Baltic and Black Sea fleets took part in ..
Tag: Sri Lanka
A Danish-flagged containership has lost power and gone adrift off Portugal’s southern coast after a fire broke out in its engine room on Saturday, December 26. Owne ..
Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard laid the keel of a new multi-purpose vessel on Tuesday, September 15. Designed by MacDuff Ship Design, the vessel will be operated by K ..
The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) recently took delivery of a new pilot launch from local builder Colombo Dockyard. Designed by Macduff Ship Design and classed by LR, ..
Sri Lanka’s Colombo Dockyard has been awarded a contract to construct a new cable laying and repair vessel for submarine telecommunications company Orange Marine Fr ..
Salvage teams from the Sri Lankan Navy are currently assessing the burned-out very large crude carrier (VLCC) New Diamond, having boarded the Panamanian-flagged vessel fo ..
A bulk carrier with a cargo of cement clinker ran aground in the Kuda Ravana Kotuwa reef in southern Sri Lanka on Saturday, January 23. The Liberian-flagged Eurosun had e ..
The company which had chartered the very large crude carrier (VLCC) New Diamond at the time of an onboard explosion and fire incident off Sri Lanka early last month has s ..
The explosion and fire on board a supertanker off Sri Lanka this month, following closely on last month’s disastrous oil spill in Mauritius, serve as a reminder that en ..
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