News reports are saying that a body washed ashore from the the Aegean Sea with characteristics of missing crew member Denisa Markoska who disappeared from the M/S Serenissima under suspicious circumstances 24 days ago. You can read articles from Macedonia
Maritime
A Quantum Hazard: Why is a Smart Ship So Stinky?
Kallis Video Production’s YouTube page shows a video of the arrival of Royal Caribbean’s Quantum of the Seas in Bremerhaven on October 5, 2014. The video was taken from a gyrocopter. The Quantum is the latest ballyhooed giant cruise ship from Royal…
Propeller Woes Continue: HAL Cancels Third Consecutive Veendam Cruise
Holland America Line announced that it is cancelling the 7 night October 11th cruise of the Veendam from Quebec, Canada to Boston because of problems with one of the cruise ship’s propellers.
HAL has already cancelled the sailings on the…
Special Update: Overview of the US and EU Sanctions on Russia
Over the past six months, the United States and the European Union have coordinated efforts through sanctions and trade controls to respond to Russian activity in Crimea and Ukraine. There has been a long series of incremental changes to the sanctions and trade…
Fire on the Emerald Princess: What Information Should Passengers Be Entitled to Know?
I first heard of the fires (yes, plural) aboard the Princess Cruises’ Emerald Princess in a cruise review entitled Emerald Princess On Fire!!! A couple on the cruise ship commented, with no other details, that on the first night (September 16th) “the…
Tribunal rules on incorporation of arbitration agreement into a charterparty and Owners’ entitlement to demurrage
London Arbitration 14/14
The vessel in question was chartered by way of a fixture recap. Owners brought a claim for demurrage against Charterers. Charterers argued that the charter did not contain a valid arbitration agreement/clause, and that although they had…
Court of Appeal upholds finding of breach of typhoon warranty in reinsurance policy
Amlin Corporate Member Ltd v Oriental Assurance Corp (The Princess of the Stars) [2014] EWCA Civ 1135
The Appellant Insurer had insured the owner of certain vessels. The policy contained a typhoon warranty, which contained two limbs:
(1) that “the…
Ecstasy Tragedy: Clemson Student Knocked Off Radar Platform
There’s more to the story regarding how 20 year old Kendall Wernet, a student at Clemson, died aboard the Carnival Ecstasy than the cruise line disclosed in its carefully crafted PR statement on Monday.
Carnival claimed that Mr. Wernet climbed…
No Grandi Navi? Norwegian Jade Photobombs George Clooney’s Wedding in Venice
Last night, like most nights, I was watching Erin Burnett’s show Outfront on CNN.
At the end of the program, Jeanne Moos did a short special on George Clooney’s wedding in Venice earlier that day. He had gone to the…
Agony on the Ecstasy: What Causes People to be Cruel in Times of Tragedy?
Yesterday was the worst day in the lives of a family from North Carolina. A 20 year old fell twenty to thirty feet from a mast on the Carnival Ecstasy at the port of Miami. The young man was later…