Over the weekend, an Egyptian court heard from the shipowner’s legal team, which argued that the Suez Canal Authority was at fault for the grounding of the vessel in the waterway on 23 March, as, given its size and the weather conditions, it should have been accompanied by two tugs. Japan’s Shoe...

The 2,700 teu X-Press Pearl, owned and operated by X-Press Feeders and deployed on its Singapore-Middle East SMX service, reported the fire on 19 May while it was waiting for a berth at the port. Firefighting tugs launched by the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) and Sri Lanka Navy helped bring the b...

The X-Press Pearl was at anchor, some 9km outside the port of Colombo, where it had been waiting for a berth since 19 May, when fire broke out in a box in the deck stacks. The firm said: “The vessel had taken all precautionary measures throughout the night. However, firefighting is still underway,...

The 4,900 teu NYK Delphinus was en route from Vancouver, around 50 miles offshore from Monterey, when the fire started on Friday. The US Coast Guard responded to a request for assistance and said that, over the course of the weekend, the vessel’s crew brought the fire under control as tugs towed t...

SCA chairman Osama Rabie told Egyptian television channel MBC Masr the SCA had reduced its claim against the shipowner to $600m, from $916m. After the vessel was re-floated at the end of March, it was towed to the Bitter Lake area of the canal where inspectors from classification society ABS found l...

Jose Guerrero, president of independent claims consultancy Virtual Claims, told Logistic-News one of the key elements of GA was that “the goods and the ship must successfully reach the destination, otherwise, there is no general average”. However, with the ship arrested, the prospect of carg...

An Egyptian judge granted permission for the SCA to seize the vessel after it lodged a $916m compensation claim against its Japanese vessel owner, Shoe Kisen. The SCA says it intends to maintain the vessel’s arrest until the claim is paid, a position that has caused fury among the ship’s insurer...

Meanwhile, European cargo owners are still none the wiser as to when and where their containers will be made available, or the percentage of the value of their cargo that will be required by the average adjusters in the form of an insurance bond or cash deposit. The vessel was re-floated on 29 March...

And a customer circular from Evergreen, seen by Logistic-News, confirms that Shoe Kisen this morning appointed Richard Hogg Lindley as adjustor. For the vessel, now at anchor at the Bitter Lakes area undergoing technical inspections, a possible date of departure to ports of discharge has yet to be se...

“The only alternative to a transit through the Suez Canal is the much longer passage around the African continent. Piracy in particular has been a significant concern for operators of merchant ships in recent years, first off the Somali coastline and more recently in the Gulf of Guinea. “Some sh...