SKULD has scored a strong 11% increase in mutual P&I gross tonnage year on year from 2016 to 2017, net of de-selections and lost business, according to a statement issued by the Norwegian marine insurer on Monday morning.

A continent two-thirds the size of Australia has been found beneath the south-west Pacific Ocean, scientists reported in the journal of the Geological Society of America.

New Zealand conservation authorities said 240 pilot whales that were stranded overnight at a remote bay which only days earlier had a larger beaching refloated themselves