Tag: incident investigation

Russia has opened a criminal investigation on the spill, which occurred during loading of the Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Symphony near the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk, on 7 August. 

The US Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board signed an updated MoU on 17 June 2021, aiming to institutionalize best practices developed during recent joint investigations including El Faro, Strech Duck 7, Golden Ray, and Conception. 

Norwegian Safety Investigation Authority issued its second investigation report of the collision between the frigate HNoMS Helge Ingstad and the oil tanker Sola TS.

Denmark has reopened an official investigation into the fire onboard the Scandinavian Star ferry that claimed the lives of 159 people in 1990, a move welcomed by Danish unions. 

RMI issued its Annual Report on marine safety investigations for 2020, recording a total of 726 very serious marine casualties, marine casualties, marine incidents, and occurrences, 80 less than reported during 2019.

The US Coast Guard announced on Monday it is suspending its search for the eight remaining missing Seacor Power lift boat crewmembers, 8 miles south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana. 

The Japanese product tanker 'Orange Victoria' is under investigation at Kochi Port, India, suspect in a hit and run incident off Kochi. Suspicions are the ship, with 23 crew members onboard, hit the fiberglass fishing boat 'Achu' in the night hours of 18 March.

Israel is highly likely to have been behind the explosion onboard the container ship 'Shahr e Kord' last week, according to an Iranian investigator quoted by Iranian media.

Israel's Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel said they have identified the crude oil tanker that was responsible for the oil spill off the coast of the country last month. It was the Libyan tanker Emerald, carrying cargo from Iran to Syria.

As an underlying factor in many maritime claims, ‘human error’ remains a multi-debated safety issue for shipping, accounting for 80% of maritime accidents. But is ‘human error’ sufficient as a term to justify what goes wrong?