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A salvage team managed to install equipment around the container ship 'SSL Kolkata', on August 9. This equipment aims to offload bunker fuel from the vessel, which suffered an explosion to one of its containers and a subsequent fire during June. The vessel was carrying 464 containers.

The US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited five contractors for safety and health violations, after three employees were fatally injured and two others critically injured on an explosion onboard a towboat in Calvert City, Kentucky.

A gas explosion was reported at the Volzhsky Ship Repair Yard in Russia's Volgograd Region. As a result of the explosion, three  have been killed, while two have suffered injuries. The explosion reportedly took place during the recycling of a barge, but it did not cause fire.

Two workers were killed and three were injured on Monday, when a gas cylinder exploded on a vessel at a dockyard in Chittagong. the  accident took place while five workers were using a gas cylinder to remove rust from the vessel Desh-1, which was located at the Ocean Dockyard in Shikalbaha, Chittagong. Suddenly, the gas cylinder exploded, killing two and injuring three.

In accordance with a formal announcement in May, a public hearing is now underway at the USCG Sector Houston-Galveston, to consider evidence related to an incident that occurred aboard the Bouchard No. 255 tank barge back in October, with explosion, fire and two fatalities and oil discharge into the water.

Shreyas Shipping and Logistics Limited, the operators of the container ship SSL Kolkata, informed that the vessel remains aground in soft mud some 7.5 nautical miles off the lndian Sunderbans, Kolkata, West Bengal. However, counter pollution response has started.

The US Coast Guard helped the Royal Bahamas Police Force medevac four people to Florida, after an explosion on a boat near Exuma, Bahamas. on Saturday June 30. The cause of the incident is still unknown, and it is currently being investigated by the Exuma branch of the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

The video depicts the German frigate 'Sachsen' suffering a missile explosion last week, during a training exercise off Norway, which resulted in minor injury of two crew members. 'FGS Sachsen' was operating with 'FGS Lübeck' near the Arctic Circle when it attempted to fire a Standard Missile 2 Block IIIA as part of the exercise.

During a salvage operation, an 18-member team noticed a crack on the upper deck of the container ship 'SSL Kolkata' that had caught fire on June 13, while underway off Sandheads, Bay of Bengal. This discovery changed the plans of the team as they decided to empty the ship of the containers and the fuel before towing it to a port.

Indian authorities have managed to drop an anchor from the  ill-fated general cargo vessel 'SSL Kolkata', which had been on fire in the last two days and abandoned by its 22 crew members on 14 June, off the Sagar Island at the mouth of the Ganges Delta.