Vessel traffic returned to normal in the Houston Ship Channel at 3:31 pm on September 6 after it was closed earlier the same day due to a bunker fuel spill and fire aboard the 810-foot tanker...
Read MoreThe Houston Ship Channel was briefly closed due to a benzene spill from the 2003-built chemical tanker Maritime Jingan while it was moored at Vopak Terminal, Deer Park, Texas, in the afternoon of...
Read MoreThe Houston Pilots Association is taking a stand against the results of a collision study released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) which noted that the pilot’s difficulty of controlling the...
Read MoreThe pilot’s difficulty in controlling the bulk carrier Conti Peridot’s heading was identified as the probable cause of the collision between the bulker and the tanker Carla Maersk in the Houston Ship Channel...
Read MoreA fire that started in the vicinity of Houston Ship Channel, at a nearby refinery, in the morning hours of Friday was extinguished around 12 p.m. the same day, according to Houston...
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