Vessel Destination: EUROPE “LILY-B” - IMO:9066069 – Flag: Germany – Type: General Cargo Ship On March 31, the "Lily- B", en route from Port Penrhyn to Rotterdam with a crew of six on board, suffered a fouled propeller by the chain of a fairway buoy off Holyhead. The vessel had on board 2120 tonnes of slate and 24.8 metric tonnes...

 Vessel Destination: EUROPE “LMZ PLUTO” - IMO:9585326 – Flag: Marshal Islands – Type: Bulk Carrier On March 23, a fire broke out aboard the "LMZ Pluto" on the Wester Scheldt near Ossenisse. She had sailed from Antwerp bound to Turkey. The Zeeland Safety Region immediately alerted a KNRM lifeboat and the MIRG, a unit of the fire brigade that specializes...

Lulz Security, commonly abbreviated as LulzSec strikes another high-profile website and this time it is India’s Rajya Sabha official website. They claim to breach in to BJP President and Rajya Sabha member Amit Shah’s account which otherwise require a login through username and password. To validate the same, they posted a screenshot revealing several details of the ruling party’s president....

Payment of Gratuity(Amendment) Bill 2017 paving the way for doubling the limit of tax free gratuity to Rs 20 lakh and empowering the government to fix the ceiling of the retirement benefit through an executive order. The Rajya Sabha passed the bill, which was approved by the Lok Sabha last week, on March 15. Besides enabling the central government to...

Vessel Destination: EUROPE “NORDIKA DESGAGNES” - IMO:9508316 – Flag: Barbados – Type: General Cargo Ship On March 10, the "Nordika Desgagnes" suffered a steering failure enroute from Montreal to Spain east of Halifax in the Atlantic. On March 12 the tug "Atlantic Larch (IMO: 9193745) took the ship in tow back towards Canada. On March 16 the tug was replaced...