Safety Parent

PCL and SMF signed an agreement on 26 May to renew both organizations’ commitment in building a maritime talent development pool.

On 15 May 2025, the Libyan Military Forces issued a circular implementing new maritime security procedures relating to underwater hull inspections of vessels within 12 nautical miles of Libyan territorial waters.

IMCA draws lessons learned from an incident in which when a winch was lifted, the cargo collided with and got stuck against other cargo on the main deck of the receiving vessel.

The Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA) has issued an investigation report into an incident where a member of the crew found the bosun unconscious on the deck in the forecastle store, holding on to an electrical cable and portable lamp. 

Authorities in the southern Indian state of Kerala have been urgently working to contain an oil spill in the Arabian Sea after MSC ELSA sank.

Over the past week, 20-26 May, six incidents of armed robbery against ships in Asia were reported to the ReCAAP ISC.

On 25 May, a coal carrier flooded and sank in rough seas off the coast of Vietnam’s Son Duong port, forcing the crew to abandon ship.

A South Korean Coast Guard unit discovered a fishing boat lodged against the bow of a cargo ship off the west coast near Gunsan.

A general cargo vessel was robbed by a group of armed men at Mongla Port, Bangladesh, on 26 May with crew members sustaining injuries.

MSC begun tracking and recovering containers that washed ashore after its vessel, MSC Elsa 3, sank off the coast of Kochi on 25 May.