Pasha’s pure pineapple run keeps the Hawaiian Islands stocked

Pasha’s pure pineapple run keeps the Hawaiian Islands stocked

George II departed the Port of Long Beach before dawn on Nov. 12, 2025, bound for Oahu, Hawaii, with 27 crew on board, including myself. The vessel, owned and operated by Pasha Hawaii, slipped past the Channel Islands on a gray morning, making its twice-monthly “pure pineapple run” between Long Beach and Honolulu. Now 45 years old, the 892-foot, nearly…
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Fire in boxship cargo hold forces evacuation from berth

Fire in boxship cargo hold forces evacuation from berth

A fire aboard the 1,047-foot containership One Henry Hudson forced a large, multi-agency response in late November 2025 in the Port of Los Angeles, prompting a unified command to relocate the vessel offshore while firefighters worked to contain the blaze. Authorities said the fire was reported shortly after 2000 while One Henry Hudson was moored at Berth 218. Nearly 200…
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Overloaded barges and complacent crew lead to capsize in the Arctic

Overloaded barges and complacent crew lead to capsize in the Arctic

A barge transporting cargo in the Canadian Arctic capsized in October 2023 after being loaded beyond its stability limits, according to a report by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB). The cargo vessel Sivumut was anchored in Frobisher Bay, Nunavut, while transshipping cargo to the city of Iqaluit using barges and tugs when the incident occurred. The capsize sent one crewmember,…
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Inadequate engineering and poor oversight lead to submersible Titan disaster

Inadequate engineering and poor oversight lead to submersible Titan disaster

More than a century after Titanic sank and became part of maritime and popular culture lore, the wreck claimed another victim — the submersible Titan. While diving at the Titanic site in June 2023 in the North Atlantic, the 22-foot submersible imploded and killed all five passengers aboard. Last year, the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board…
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Happy birthday, ITF! And thank you for having our backs!

Happy birthday, ITF! And thank you for having our backs!

Last year saw a huge worldwide upsurge in the number of merchant mariners who were stranded or abandoned. Close to 3,300 seafarers on 222 vessels were stuck on board for months or even years and owed over $58 million in unpaid wages. Although these incidents occur in every maritime country, most are on flag-of-convenience (FOC) vessels, such as the Vanuatu-flagged…
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