New Zealand authorities are investigating an incident that resulted in a crewmember of bulk carrier Berge Rishiri (IMO 9713222) falling overboard on Saturday August 27th. The Chinese national remained missing and was most likely dead. Maritime Union NZ has called for the national government to look...
There was an explosion in the funnel section of chemical/oil products tanker Torc (IMO 9544683) on August 28th during welding maintenance work at Bandirma, Turkey, Marmara sea. Two crew were hospitalized as a result. The explosion was followed by a fire, but this was extinguished by port...
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Bulk carrier OS 35 (IMO 9172399) collided with LNG tanker Adam LNG (IMO 9501186) while leaving anchorage off Gibraltar Point at around 20:00 local time on August 29th. The Adam LNG was anchored at the time of collision, and did not suffer serious damage. The OS 35 was reported to have sustained a...
Minister of Fisheries Douglas Devananda of Sri Lanka has reported that it had received a third and largest interim payment from the insurance company as a result of the fire aboard container ship X-Press Pearl (IMO 9875343) in May 2021. The latest payment totalled approximately $2.5m. Sri Lanka had...
The Philippine Coast Guard and volunteers rescued all 85 passengers and crew who were on inter-island ferry M/V Asia Philippines (IMO 7434262), which caught fire as it approached a port south of Manila on August 26th. Many of the passengers jumped into the water as the flames were fanned by strong...
Bulk carrier Ocean Princess (IMO 9245196) struck an oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast Louisiana last year because of poor bridge resource management (BRM) and platform not on NOAA charts, the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said last week. The platform was...
Passenger/vehicle RoRo Stena Scandica (IMO 9329849) started drifting in rough seas after a lorry on board caught fire during the late morning of August 29th while the vessel was sailing just north of the Swedish island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. The fire resulted in a black-out on the vessel....
Houston-based Amplify Energy Co and two subsidiaries — Beta Operating Co and San Pedro Bay Pipeline Co — agreed on Friday August 26th to plead guilty to federal environmental charges and as a result will pay just under $13m in fines. The legal case relates to a crude oil spill in October 2021 that...
Chemical/oil products tanker Kuzey Ekim (IMO 9426922) caught fire off Antalya, Turkey, on August 26th. No further information yet. 2009-built, Turkey-flagged, 12,560 gt Kuzey Ekim is owned by Kuzey Tankercilik AS care of manager Tankmarine Gemi Isletmeciligi Ticaret of Istanbul, Turkey. As of...
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An odd story has emerged of what looks like a sign-off boat transferring crew to land from VLCC Voras (IMO 9203265) running out of fuel and then drifting for two days before being rescued. The story became odder when the media from two different countries gave accounts of the incident that were so...