Tag: grounding

The captain of a Cypriot cargo vessel has been held in Denmark after being charged of drink-driving.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has released a preliminary report from its on-going investigation into the breakaway and grounding of a product tanker in the Port of Brisbane during flooding on 27 February 2022.

INTERCARGO published its Bulk Carrier Casualty Report 2012-2021, reporting that 27 bulk carriers of over 10,000 dwt were declared as total losses for the years 2012-2021.

The ferry Nissos Samos, with 332 passengers and more than 200 vehicles on board, drifted aground in Chios harbor, Greece, on May 19.

General cargo ship MEISEN 2, is a flagged Japan dwt 1555 built in 1996. The vessel issued a distress signal at around 03:30 Tokyo time May 14 in Chiba Prefecture waters, Honshu eastern coast, south of Tokyo.

A bulk carrier vessel loaded with logs from Papua New Guinea has been grounded in the China Strait passage of Milne Bay, according to the National Maritime Safety Authority (NMSA).

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) published a report regarding a captain's decision to leave the wheelhouse unattended as the vessel transited the St. Marys Entrance on autopilot, resulting in the vessel's  grounding and sinking off Cumberland Island, Georgia.

Two days after being pulled free, the Ever Forward containership was reported to be in a good condition. At this moment, the vessel remains anchored off Annapolis, Maryland as of Wednesday afternoon.

Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot urges Evergreen to start a $100m responsibility fund for any economic or environmental impact caused by the Ever Forward's grounding at Chesapeake Bay. 

In its latest Safety Digest, UK MAIB provides lessons learned from an incident where a vessel came to a juddering stop as it grounded on a well-charted and marked shoal.