By Maha El Dahan (Reuters) – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized an Israeli-linked cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, days after Tehran said it could close the crucial…
https://gcaptain.com/iran-seizes-portuguese-containership-msc-aries-in-the-strait-of-hormuz/
Officials of the Royal Thai Navy said the captain of a warship that sank in bad weather in late 2022 had taken “imprudent” actions that resulted in the ship’s loss along with at least 24 of its crew. An investigation revealed that Captain Phichitchai Thueannadee, commanding officer of the corvette...
Prosecutors in Russia have told local media that one person was killed while three others suffered varying degrees of injury after a fire broke out on an icebreaker that is still under construction on Monday, April 8. The 106-metre Yekaterina Velikaya was at a shipyard in Vladivostok undergoing...
Authorities in Mozambique have confirmed that more than 90 people were killed after a passenger ferry capsized and sank off Nampula province in the country’s northern coast on Sunday, April 7. The unidentified vessel was transporting over 130 people, many of whom were reportedly attempting to flee...
Nine crewmembers of a fishing boat suffered injuries after a fire ignited and caused a gas cylinder to explode on board their vessel off the southern Indian city of Visakhapatnam on Friday, April 5. The locally-registered fishing vessel Durga Bhavani was in the Bay of Bengal 65 nautical miles off...
The Bangkok Post reports that more than 100 people were evacuated from a passenger ferry after it caught fire in the Gulf of Thailand on Thursday, April 4. The vessel identified as Ko Jaroen 2 was approaching Koh Tao island in southern Thailand’s Surat Thani province when a blaze ignited in its...
The Australiam government’s Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP), on behalf of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), has successfully prosecuted a ship’s master and a shipping company following a serious accident involving a ship’s pilot on May 25, 2023. On the said date, a pilot attempting to embark the Panama-flagged general cargo ship Boshi […]
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The recent bridge collapse incident in Baltimore in the US state of Maryland was a tragedy that I believe could and should have been avoided. The bridge was built in 1977 and as can be seen from media footage, it can hardly be described as robust although it was probably adequate in the 1970s. Dali...
Seventeen people suffered varying degrees of injury after a Bulgarian cruise ship transiting the Danube River struck the side of a lock in northern Austria on Friday, March 29. The unidentified vessel, which had more than 140 passengers embarked, was sailing along the Danube near the municipality...
By Jordan Fabian (Bloomberg) President Joe Biden said he will head to Baltimore next week as the US seeks to accelerate emergency work to clear and reconstruct the collapsed Francis Scott…
https://gcaptain.com/biden-to-visit-baltimore-and-help-accelerate-salvage-efforts/