The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently released its Marine Accident Brief detailing a March 15, 2020, incident that involved the mv. Cooperative Spirit, part of ADM ARTCO’s river transportation… Read More
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) cited a lack of organizational oversight as an important contributing factor to about a third of the marine accidents on which the NTSB completed… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued its Marine Accident Report detailing the October 8, 2019, engineroom fire aboard the mv. Susan Lynn near Lafitte, La., along the Barataria… Read More
It often takes a tragedy to bring issues into focus. Last year, a devastating fire broke out aboard the passenger dive boat Conception off California’s Santa Cruz Island. The Conception… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board has released a marine accident brief detailing its investigation into the May 16, 2019, multi-vessel collision involving the tanker American Liberty on the Lower Mississippi… Read More
The probable cause of the contact of the William C with the Rock Island Railroad Bridge protection cell on January 1, 2020, was the pilot’s inability to correct the tow’s… Read More
The failure of a weld ultimately led to a barge breaking loose from its mooring and heavily damaging a pier in November of last year, the National Transportation Safety Board… Read More
An October 13 report by the National Transportation Safety Board on a barge explosion last November highlights the importance of companies providing full and detailed instructions to their employees on… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), which is conducting an investigation into an August 21 fire aboard the cutterhead dredge Waymon L. Boyd, has released a preliminary report on the… Read More
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently released its marine accident brief detailing the investigation into the June 8, 2019, collision between the bulk cargo ship Century Queen and the… Read More
