A massive explosion, emanating from the Port of Beirut, has rocked the city, totalling ships at anchor there, causing deaths, injuries, and damage to buildings as far as 5 km away. Preliminary reports issued by […]
The 61-year-old South Korean captain of a container ship has been found dead and the vessel was deviated to bring his body home. The Korea Coast Guard (KCG) stated that on 22 July 2020, the […]
Almost three years after the fatal collision between the container ship ACX Crystal and the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald that claimed the lives of seven US Navy sailors, a US judge has dismissed two lawsuits […]
With dozens of seafarers stranded for months due to air flight suspension following the COVID-19 spread, on 10 June 2020, commercial air carrier US-Bangla Airlines operated a special flight to ferry 45 Indian seafarers back […]
An Iranian flagged cargo vessel sank in Iraqi waters on 4 June, leaving one crew member dead and two others missing. The head of Iran’s maritime and port association, Nader Pasandeh, said that the 650 […]
The world’s most congested and politically contested waterways account for the majority of crew deaths and missing seafarers between 2015-2019, according to data collected for IHS Markit’s State of Maritime Safety report. The free report […]
One of ‘K’ Line’s car carriers was disinfected in Vietnam’s Hai Phong port after its Bulgarian master apparently died in his bedroom a week before the ship arrived at the port around 0600 h local […]
The US Department of Transportation Maritime Administration (DOT MARAD) has issued a formal alert that mines have been reported in coastal waters between Midi, Yemen and Jizan, Saudi Arabia. As such, MARAD has issued a […]
A Myanmarese seafarer died in a horrific accident after falling from a tanker docked at Taiwan’s Kaohsiung port. In the incident, which took place on 15 February, the 31-year-old man was coming down a rope […]
A cargo of 60 concrete boards fell on two dockers in the Japanese port of Nagoya on the morning of 3 February 2020, killing one and seriously injuring the other. The incident happened at Yatomi […]
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