Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. today announced the completion of a tabletop drill done in cooperation with the 5th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters. The scenario entailed a containership operated by MOL Liner Division (Hong Kong) and managed by an MOL Group ship management company (Hong Kong) colliding with a coastal freighter in Osaka Bay, Japan. The [...]
This morning an incident occurred between one of GO OFFSHORE’s vessels, the DP1 Safety Standby Service Vessel FOS Polaris and another vessel approximately 1km off the coast of Exmouth, Australia. No one was injured in the incident. GO MARINE GROUP stated that the company is working with the Department of Transport and other relevant agencies [...]
![Human Error Behind North Sea Collision]()
A collision that killed five sailors and sank the Baltic Ace car carrier on Wednesday evening was probably caused by a human error, Reuters informs citing Panagiootis Kakoliris, operations manager at Stamco Ship Management Co., Ltd. which managed the sunken ship. The weather conditions were normal at the time of the collision, according to [...]
![North Sea Collision Takes Lives of Four Sailors]()
In the collision that happened last night (Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012) between a car carrier and a containership where the car carrier sank off the Dutch coast four sailors died, thirteen were rescued and seven sailors are still missing, Reuters reports. Coastguard spokesman Peter Westenberg told BBC that three boats from the Royal Dutch [...]
![Car Carrier Sinks after Collision in North Sea]()
A car carrier is sinking in the North Sea after colliding with a containership some 40-50 km from the Dutch port of Rotterdam on Wednesday evening, Reuters reports referring to the statement of Dutch coastguard. Bahamian flagged car carrier Baltic Ace, and the Corvus J, a container ship from Cyprus collided in an important North [...]
At about 1400hrs on 9 September (Singapore time), the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) received a report that a Hong Kong-registered bulk carrier “Sunny Horizon”, collided with a Korean-registered Liquefied Petroleum Gas carrier “DL Salvia” at the Temasek Fairway, about 700 metres east of Sultan Shoal. The bunker tank on “DL Salvia” was [...]
![Polish Master Sentenced for Collision with Ferry (UK)]()
On 7th March 2012, Miroslaw Pozniak, the master of the merchant ship Union Moon, registered in the Cook Islands, was outbound from the port of Belfast when he collided with the inbound ferry Stena Feronia There were 51 passengers and 47 crew onboard the ferry and six people onboard the cargo ship. Fortunately no [...]
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![Vietnam: Police Investigates Vung Tau Container Tanker Collision and Sinking]()
As informed by the Tuoitrenews, the Investigation Police Department of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province is undertaking activities to get to the bottom of events that caused the collision of the Truong Hai Star, a Vietnamese container tanker and the Thai-flagged ship, Krairatch Dignity on April 9. The collision tore the tanker open between its [...]
![Japan: Collision of Containership MOL Maneuver]()
TOKYO-Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. today announced that the MOL-operated containership MOL Maneuver collided with the containership Zhen He while under way on the open seas southeast of Hong Kong, on February 22, 2012, at around 17:45 p.m., Japan time. None of the crew was injured and no oil leak has been observed. The MOL [...]
![Russian Cargo Vessel Sinks After Collision in Japan Sea]()
On Tuesday, February 7, a Russian vessel ‘Tanya Karpinskaya’ sunk in the Sea of Japan after colliding with a Singapore flagged container ship ‘Cat Duta’. The 17 crew members, all of them Russian citizens, were rescued by the Coast Guard. Another crew member, who was considered missing, has been found ashore. General cargo vessel [...]
