Tag: collision

According to Vietnamese officials, on 14th July, a Wan Hai containership made contact with a bulker. While neither vessel appears to have sustained significant damage in the allision, a portion of the cargo handling equipment at the dry bulk terminal collapsed. 

According to International news, on 2nd July, two handysize bulk carriers collided, while transiting the Parana River, in Argentina. 

On 17th June, two bulk carriers collide in the Spanish port of Tarragona, with result to suffered heavy damage. 

Charges were laid last Friday against the master and company that owns the high-speed vessel Falls Express, which collided with rocks at Horizontal Falls on 27 May 2022 while carrying 25 passengers and 2 crew on an eco-tour of Talbot Bay in Western Australia. 

On 2nd June, two merchant ships were reportedly involved in a collision in the waters off the Greek island of Chios.

On 30th May, a fishing vessel sunk after colliding with a pilot boat on the James River at the Port of Virginia.

A Norwegian watch officer was found guilty and sentenced to a two-month suspended jail sentence for negligence leading up to a collision between a warship he navigated and a Tsakos aframax tanker in which the military vessel sank.

According to Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), three people have died, and two were reported missing after a Sierra Leone-flagged dredger collided with a product tanker in the waters off Corregidor Island in the Philippines on 28th April.

After allegedly colliding with a wind farm on April 24th, a cargo ship made its way to Emden, Germany with a big hole in its hull.

According to the Gibraltar Port Authority, as a result of the adverse weather conditions at sea last week, the OS 35 has shifted slightly from its position and separated further in the area of the hull previously damaged.