Two Drown, Four Missing After Ships Collide Off Italy
MV Gokbel. File photo (c) MarineTraffic.com/DMG ROME, Dec 28 (Reuters) – Two people drowned and four were missing at sea and feared dead after two merchant ships collided in rough seas off the Italian...
View ArticleTanker Damaged in Collision With Ro/Ro in the Netherlands
MT Leonardo file photo (c) MarineTraffic.com/Waldemar Snoch A tanker collided Friday with a Grimaldi Lines vehicle carrier in the Westerschelde estuary in southern Netherlands near the border with...
View ArticleLPG Tanker ‘Navigator Aries’ Damaged in Collision with Containership in...
Photo courtesy suarasurabaya.net A Navigator Gas LPG tanker was badly damaged in a collision Monday with a containership in Indonesia’s Java Sea. Photos show the Indonesian-flagged LPG carrier...
View ArticleMore Bosphorus Trouble: Vessels Collide Near Northern Entrance – INCIDENT PHOTOS
Another incident to report today involving ships in or near Turkey’s Bosphorus Strait. Turkish maritime authorities have confirmed that the tanker Paros Wind and the bulk carrier CS Jaden collided...
View ArticleSunken Towboat Restricting Traffic on Mississippi River Near Memphis
A section of the Mississippi River is restricted to one-way vessel traffic near Memphis as the Coast Guard and response crews work to salvage a towboat which sank earlier this week after colliding with...
View Article17 Missing After Cargo Ship Collides With Fishing Vessel in East China Sea
SHANGHAI, May 7 (Reuters) – Seventeen people were missing after a Chinese fishing boat collided with a Maltese cargo ship and sank in the East China Sea on Saturday, state media reported, citing the...
View ArticleWATCH: VLCC and Bulk Carrier in Near Miss (Actually They Hit But Could Have...
Here’s is some video posted online showing a 2015 incident involving a bulk carrier and a VLCC. Not much information available but according to the uploader the tanker in the video is the MT Hirmand,...
View ArticleUp to 80,000 Trout Escape After Cargo Ship Crashes Into Fish Farm in Denmark
COPENHAGEN, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Danish anglers could be in for the fishing trip of their lives in a few days’ time, after a ship crashed into a fish farm and caused up to 80,000 rainbow trout to escape...
View ArticleVietnamese Cargo Ship Detained in Indonesia After Fatal Collision
Authorities in Indonesia have detained the Vietnamese-flagged cargo ship MV Thaison 4 as part of an investigation into a fatal collision involving the ship an Indonesian fishing boat over the weekend....
View ArticleFive Dead, Six Missing After MSC Containership Collides with Fishing Vessel...
Five people have died and six others are reported missing after an MSC containership collided with a small fishing boat in international waters off the coast of Ecuador. The incident involved the...
View ArticleHong Kong Closes Beaches as Stinking Palm Oil Washes Ashore Days After Ship...
HONG KONG, Aug 8 (Reuters) – Hong Kong has closed more than a dozen beaches after a palm oil spill washed foul-smelling, Styrofoam-like clumps ashore, the latest major environmental disaster to blight...
View ArticleTanker’s Hull Gashed in Collision with Fishing Vessel Off New York
The U.S. Coast Guard’s New York sector responded to collision Saturday between a loaded crude oil tanker and a commercial fishing vessel which left the tanker with a 30-foot gash in its hull. The...
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