CASUALTIES

US ransom ban could hit Suez transits

SHIPOWNERS will abandon the Gulf of Aden and large parts of the Indian Ocean if a US threat to ban ransom payments becomes law, a seminar in Brussels heard last week.

Judge may cut sentences in Neftegaz-67 collision case

SCENE OF TRAGEDY: The Neftegaz-67 is lifted out of Hong Kong waters in April 2008. Eighteen seafarers died after a collision with the bulker Yao Hai.

Frozen out – Baltic ice traps 1,000 passengers

THE EXTREME weather conditions that saw dozens of ships and more than 1,000 passengers trapped in Baltic ice last week was expected to improve early this week, easing pressure on the region’s icebreaking fleet.

Casualty Briefs - 11th March 2010