Image Courtesy: Royal Thai Navy Up to fifty Chinese tourists are missing while 17 were confirmed dead after three ships carrying over 150 people capsized off Phuket, Thailand. According to a statement by the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China…
Fire erupted on Dutch cargo ship EEMS DUNDEE , berthed at Esbjerg, Denmark, on Jul 6, during loading of wind turbines parts. 10 people had to be hospitalized with helicopters deployment. Reportedly fire was extinguished by midday, extent of damages unknown. Fire…
More than 30 people died following the capsizing of a ferry in the waters off Indonesian South Sulawesi province on Tuesday. At the time of the incident, there were 189 passengers on board the KM Lestari Maju ship. 34 people…
The captain of a sinking Indonesian ferry managed to steer his ship onto a reef to enable the evacuation of more than 100 passengers, but 31 people drowned as the vessel floundered in stormy seas, officials said on Wednesday.…
Family members of missing victims of a capsized ferry mourn during a mass memorial service at Lake Toba in North Sumatra on July 3, 2018. Photo: Lazuardy Fahmi / AFP Authorities in Indonesia were scrambling on Tuesday to rescue about…
M/V Ansac Splendor. File Photo: MarineTraffic.com/Les Blair Two people were killed when a vessel’s mooring line snapped at the Port of Longview in southwestern Washington State last Thursday. The accident occurred as the Panama-flagged bulk carrier M/V Ansac Splendor was…
Around 100 people are thought to have drowned from a migrant boat off Libya’s western coast, a coastguard official said on Friday. The coastguard picked up 14 survivors from the boat just east of the capital, Tripoli, the official said.…
Image Courtesy: Pixabay under CC0 Creative Commons license The level of customers’ satisfaction with the service quality of container shipping companies has dropped since 2016, according to the shipper satisfaction survey conducted by Drewry and the European Shippers’ Council (ESC).…
The second edition of the Ghana Shippers Awards was held to celebrate individuals and companies that are playing a significant role in the growth and development of the Ghanaian shipping industry. The awards seek to recognize shipping companies which have…
Illustration. Image Courtesy: Pexels under CC0 Creative Commons license Today, once again, marks the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Day of the Seafarer, focused this year on seafarer wellbeing. 2017 and 2018 have seen strong momentum in the industry to address…