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Storm battered Gijon, dragged bulk carrier
Storm Hugo on Mar 24 landed on Asturias coast, northwest Spain, Bay of Biscay, causing a lot of damages, including Gijon seaside and anchorage. Bulk carrier QUEEN JHANSI in the morning Mar 25 reported...
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Container ships MSC SHUBA B and LAURA MAERSK collided in Callao
Container ships MSC SHUBA B and LAURA MAERSK collided at Callao port, Chile, in the morning Mar 24, while maneuvering in the harbor, reported PortalPortuario.cl. LAURA MAERSK bow contacted MSC SHUBA...
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Container ship APL CHARLESTON grounding, India
Container ship APL CHARLESTON ran aground at around 1100 UTC Mar 26 shortly after leaving Hazira, Surat, west India, actually in Hazira anchorage area. According to AIS, giant ship was refloated in...
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Container ship and cargo ship collided in Great Belt, fire, lost containers
Container ship DELPHIS GDANSK collided with general cargo ship BBC NEPTUNE shortly after 0400 UTC Mar 27 in Great Belt west of Kalundborg, Denmark, while proceeding in opposite directions. Both ship...
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Bulk carrier aground on Western Scheldt
Bulk carrier SBI JAGUAR reportedly ran aground shortly after 0100 CEST Mar 28 on Western Scheldt off Perkpolder, roughly halfway between Antwerp and Vissingen, while proceeding downstream, en route...
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Cargo ship RIX MISTRAL aground, Denmark
General cargo ship RIX MISTRAL reportedly ran aground at around 1500 UTC Mar 27 shortly after leaving Nakskov, Llolland, Denmark, bound for Rotterdam. As of 0600 UTC Mar 28 the ship was still aground,...
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Container ship major fire deadly dice game
Container ship PUELO, berthed at Yangshan Deep Water port, Shanghai, in the morning Mar 28 reported inflammable fluid leak from one of the 20’ containers on board, understood recently loaded. Watchful...
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US Navy submarine USS GEORGIA crew medevaced after accident, Spain
Spanish Salvage Agency Salvamento Maritimo reported, that it medevaced sailor from the US Navy submarine USS GEORGIA in the early hours Mar 28 in Alboran sea east of Cartagena, Spain. Sailor lost a...
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Container ship MAERSK HONAM Update Mar 29
As of 22000 UTC Mar 28, MAERSK HONAM and tugs engaged in salvage were in vicinity 22 15N 063 25E, with almost no visible towage progress – caravan in 4,5 days covered mere 50 nm in western direction,...
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Cargo ship SKY VITA grounding, UK
General cargo ship SKY VITA ran aground shortly after 0500 UTC Mar 29 on river Ouse near Saltmarshe, UK, while proceeding upstream to Goole, from S-Petersburg Russia. As of 1330 UTC the ship was still...
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Bulk carrier fire, Civitavecchia, Italy Update firefighting still on
Update Mar 29: Throughout the day firefighters and all others involved were trying to offload coal from fire-struck hold, understood as of evening, fire can’t be considered as extinguished. Fire...
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Cargo shi sank after collision with car carrier, 3 missing
Car carrier MORNING CHERRY collided with cargo ship CHEN CHANG 332 at 1812 LT Mar 28 in Pearl Rivery estuary fairway. CHEN CHANG 332 with 3500 tons of sand on board sank 9 crew were rescued, 3 went...
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World biggest container ship collided with freighter
20000 TEU COSCO’s Ultra Large Container Ship on sea trial, with 150 people on board, collided with general cargo ship MERCURY TRIUMPH, which was en route from Japan to China with cargo of steel, in...
View ArticleFreighter grounded, breached in Tsushima Strait, Japan
General cargo ship SEIRYU MARU ran aground early at around 0100 Tokyo time Mar 30 in Tsushima Strait on a small islet north of Karatsu, Kyushu Island, Japan. The ship loaded with steel was en route...
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Cargo ship on rocks, partially sank, Taiwan Strait
Cargo ship YUAN TAI 789 ran aground on rocks early in the morning Beijing time Mar 31 in Taiwan Strait some 3 nm off southeast coast of Kinmen Island, China. The fore part of the ship went under...
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Panamax bulk carrier caught in burning oil spill Update
Update: According to local officials, bulk carrier already completed loading and was leaving or about to leave. Tugs prevented fire from spreading to holds and cargo of more than 70,000 tons of coal....
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Bulk carrier HARRIETT refloated by own means, White sea
Mar 31 Update: Bulk carrier according to Moscow MRCC report refloated in the morning Mar 31 by own means, and was brought to anchor near grounding site for survey. Underwater survey carried out...
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Photo of unidentified bulk carrier seemingly aground off HK
FM/MB reader Mr. Will Riggs kindly sent a photo taken from plane at around 1200 HK time Mar 31, west of Hong Kong Int Airport, assuming that the ship on photo is the ship which ran aground on Mar 30....
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Fast ferry with 400 passengers damaged in collision, Korea
Fast ferry ELDORADO with 403 passengers on board collided with unidentified object in Japan sea in the evening Mar 31, while en route from Dokdo to Ulleundo island, Korea, at some 28 knots speed. Hull...
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Container ship MAERSK HONAM Apr 01 Update
As of 1300 UTC Apr 01, MAERSK HONAM and tugs engaged in salvage were in vicinity 22 02N 063 18E, heading somewhere southeast. MAERSK said in its’ statement, that the ship is to arrive at Jebel Ali in...
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