Social media pressure is increasing to get more countries involved in the search operation for the missing 40 crew from the Gulf Livestock 1, which sank in the East China Sea off southern Japan on September 2nd after encountering Typhoon Maysak. The Japan Coast Guard is still searching, using boats...
23,000 teu container ship MSC Mia (IMO 9839466) allided with a gantry crane while leaving the MSC container terminal at Valencia during the morning of September 13th. The crane collapsed and the crane operator suffered injuries. He was rescued by the fire brigade and taken to hospital. After the...
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Salvors have boarded the fire-stricken VLCC New Diamond (IMO 9191424) and have begun repair work on the ruptured fuel oil tank in the engine room the vessel, the Sri Lankan Navy has reported. The supertanker was 52nm east of the Sri Lankan coast, Navy spokesman Indika de Silva told Reuters....
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The 25 migrants who had been stranded aboard products tanker Maersk Etienne (IMO 9274642) for more than a month, sleeping on deck with minimal protection and facilities, have been allowed to disembark in Sicily, Italy. The migrants went ashore in the port town of Pozzallo on Saturday September...
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The US Coast Guard, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the Marshall Islands Maritime Administrator and the South Korean Maritime Safety Tribunal are scheduled today (September 14th) to begin a formal public hearing at the Marshes of Glynn Library (Brunswick-Glynn County) in...
A team of experts from the Sri Lankan Navy and Smit Salvage has boarded fire-damaged VLCC New Diamond (IMO 9191424) for the first time, after several days of fighting fires on board. A fire broke out on September 3rd following an explosion of a boiler in the ship’s main engine room. It has...
Families of crew who were on the sunken Gulf Livestock 1 (IMO 9262883) have urged authorities to resume their search and rescue operations. The vessel sunk in a typhoon off southern Japan on September 2nd. Poor weather since then has restricted to a handful the number of days on which a search took...
After spending months trapped on board the abandoned LPG Tanker Celanova (IMO 9268394), its Cuban crew are now in a Manila hotel awaiting repatriation. In December 2019 the Celanova lost its rudder off the Philippines and was towed to Manila Bay, where she dropped anchor 13 miles from port....
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The body of an Afghan migrant was found during the late afternoon of Sunday September 6th in the vehicle deck of passenger/cargo RoRo Cruise Europa (IMO 9351490) after it arrived in Ancona on a voyage from Patras, Greece. The victim’s body was found within the vessel’s vehicle hold, and it showed...
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The search for survivors of the lost livestock carrier Gulf Livestock 1 (IMO 9262883)has been called off. The vessel was carrying 43 crew members and more than 5,800 cows when it lost power in a typhoon, capsized and sank on September 2nd. Three people were found, of whom two have survived. One of...
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