Tag: collision

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.

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.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued an investigation report regarding contact of Miss Mollye D Tow with Route 182 Bridge on December  2021 to highlight that the vessel’s pilot never reported it to authorities.