Tag: vessel sinks

A part of a Bangladesh-bound cargo vessel with fly ash collided with another ship and sunk in the Hooghly River, an Inland Waterways Authority of India (IWAI) official said. The incident took place at Nischintapur in South 24 Parganas district, about 60 km from Kolkata in the early hours of Saturday.

Sri Lanka’s Marine Environment Protection Agency (MEPA) is expecting the remaining components of the containership X-Press Pearl to be removed by this week.

Divers discovered the body of one crewmember within the wreck of the sunken freighter Seiryu, which sank in the Seto Inland Sea last week after colliding with another vessel.

A barge has sunk with about 550 MT of cargo on board whilst discharging bauxite from a vessel west of Breakwaters at the Open Anchorage in Goa, India.

A Tanzanian cargo ship sank on January 24, in a jetty in the southern Iranian port of Assaluyeh, as state media reported.

The Hong Kong-flagged general cargo ship "Jin Tian" sank between South Korea and Japan on January 25, and there are fears that up to 8 crew might have died in the incident.

Steps have been taken to defuel the sunken vessel MV Princess Miral, and the procedure is expected to be done within a month. 

On January 6, a Royal Navy patrol vessel saved five crewmembers from a sinking tug off the coast of Sint Maarten, and brought survivors to safety during high winds. 

The US Coast Guard responded to Kinnickinnic River in the Port of Milwaukee after it was reported that the towing vessel "Michigan" was sinking in the port's waters, on January 2.

On January 1, the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) successfully rescued 12 members of the crew from a sinking supply ship in the Arabian Sea off the coast of Gujarat.