Port conditions: The following listed dry bulk ports are closed or non-operational. Rescue operations are still being undertaken and no indication yet of repair/recovery works, not only to the ports but to the many roads, bridges etc. destroyed by the quake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.
Ports
Main commodities
Hachinohe
Grain
Logs/Lumbers
Concentrate
Hitachi
Containers / Vehicles
General cargo
Hitachinaka
Containers/Vehicles
General cargo
Ishinomaki
Coal
Concentrate
Logs/Lumbers
Steel products
Grain
Kamaishi
Grain
Logs/Lumbers
Steel products
Coal
Vehicles
Kashima
Coal/Iron Ore/Steel products (Sumitomo Metal Terminal)
The UK P&I Club has made a significant donation to the International Maritime Rescue Federation (IMRF) to support its work developing resources, training and building preparedness for maritime mass rescue operations.
Summer is once again upon us and the media coverage surrounding the refugee and migrant crisis in the Mediterranean continues, as do the criticisms of Operation Triton. So has anything really changed since Triton was introduced or do commercial operators still have to step in?
The International Convention on Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection with the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances by Sea, 1996 (“the HNS Convention”) was adopted in May 1996. It is modelled on CLC 1992 but intended to cover damages caused by spillage of hazardous and noxious substances during maritime transportation.
