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Malta-flagged cargo vessel loses 99 containers at sea off South Africa east coast: SAMSA

Adverse weather conditions impacting South Africa this past week have led to yet another large container vessel losing as many as 99 containers off the east coast of South Africa, according to the South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA). In …
Aug 20, 2024 / Vessels

Bureau Veritas awards AiP for methanol dual fuel system to Sasaki Shipbuilding

Bureau Veritas (BV), a global leader in Testing, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) industry, has granted an Approval in Principle (AiP) to Sasaki Shipbuilding Co., Ltd (Sasaki) for its Methanol dual fuel (DF) system applied in a 9,000 DWT General …
Apr 10, 2024 / Curious

Crew abandon Rubymar cargo ship after Houthi rebel missile attack

Belize-flagged Rubymar came under attack in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off Yemen Houthis have deployed underwater drones in the Red Sea, US Central Command says A missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels damaged a Belize-flagged ship travelling …
Feb 19, 2024 / Accidents

Wärtsilä hybrid propulsion solution selected for three new cargo vessels

Technology group Wärtsilä will supply an integrated hybrid propulsion solution for three new self-discharging cargo vessels being built at the Royal Bodewes shipyard in the Netherlands for Norwegian shipowner Aasen Shipping. As part of the solution, …
Dec 12, 2023 / Curious

Turkish cargo ship sinks off Black Sea coast, 1 crew member killed, 11 missing

One crew member has died and eleven others were missing after a cargo ship sank off Turkey’s Black Sea coast in severe storms, Turkish officials said on Monday. The ship was on its way to the western Turkish port of Izmir The Turkish-flagged …
Nov 20, 2023 / Accidents

Video reconstruction of the collision between Russian Ro-Ro ship SLAVYANIN and the Palau-flagged cargo ship NEW RAOUF

AIS video reconstruction of the collision between the Russian Ro-Ro ship SLAVYANIN and the Palau-flagged cargo ship NEW RAOUF off Bulgaria's Cape Shabla. Related news: Russian RoRo Cargo Ship Collided with Another Cargo Vessel off Bulgaria's Cape …
Nov 8, 2023 / Accidents

Russian RoRo Cargo Ship Collided with Another Cargo Vessel off Bulgaria's Cape Shabla

The ferry Slavyanin has collided with another vessel east of Cape Shabla and is currently sailing towards Varna. No one was injured in the incident, and there was no fuel spillage. Slavyanin sails under the flag of the Russian Federation. It …
Nov 8, 2023 / Accidents

UPDATE: German authorities halt a search for 4 sailors missing after the collision of 2 cargo vessels in the North Sea

German authorities on Wednesday broke off their search for four crew members missing since their British-flagged cargo ship sank a day earlier following a collision with a larger vessel in the North Sea. Caption: Search of the missing seamen of …
Oct 25, 2023 / Accidents

Dutch authorities delay plan to tow burning cargo ship

Dutch authorities started preparing on Saturday to tow away a vehicle-packed cargo ship which has been burning for days off the country’s coast. The operation of moving the Fremantle Highway from the Dutch coast, a UNESCO World Heritage site for the …
Jul 31, 2023 / Vessels

Unsafe and unseaworthy cargo ship banned from Australian waters

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has banned the Antigua Barbuda-flagged general cargo ship BBC Weser from Australian waters for 90 days for being in an unsafe and unseaworthy condition – and an unacceptable risk to Australia’s precious …
Jun 8, 2023 / Curious