United Arab Shipping Company increases its fleet with more 13,500 TEU vessels; The United Arab Shipping Company (UASC) named 13,500 TEU containership AIN SNAN in Hamburg on 25 May, 2012, MarineLink reports. The AIN SNAN was delivered after a nine-month building phase in January of this year. The 366-metre-long and 48 metre-wide ultra large container ship (ULCS) has a loading capacity of over 145,000 DWT (dead weight tonnage), providing a capacity of more than 800 slots for refrigerated containers. www.marinelink.co...

A Russian cargo ship loaded with weapons is en route to Syria and due to arrive at a Syrian port this weekend, Al Arabiya television said in a report that Western diplomats in New York described on Friday, May 26th 2012 as credible. "Al Arabiya have learned that a Russian cargo ship carrying a large amount of weapons plans to unload its cargo in the Syrian port of Tartus," the broadcaster said on its website on Thursday. The report said the ship left a Russian port on May 6 and cited a "Western source" as saying that it will dock at Tartus on Saturday. "The ship is trying to conceal its final destination in a suspicious way," Al Arabiya said. Western diplomats and officials said the report was credible. More at articles.chicagot...

the Antigua-Barbuda-flagged cargo m/v "Planet V" on its way from Antwerp to St. Petersburg was in collision with the "MTS Vantage" on the Westerschelde on Flushing roads on May 26, 2012, at 6 p.m. after a complete loss of engine power. The crew of the "Planet V" tried to lower the anchor after the blackout to avoid a collision with the tug which was on parallel course, but the anchor chain of the "Planet V" broke and hit a crewmember on the foreship who was deadly injured. When ambulance personnel arrived on board the ship, the man was already deceased. Both ships were damaged. The tug entered the port of Flushing with own power. The cargo ship returned to the Bijleveld Port in Flushing under tow and was berthed at 20.20 p.m.