Tag: grounding

The MSC containership "MSC Elaine" ran aground on the breakwater at the Port of Gioia Tauro in Italy, on January 9.

A Hamburg Sud containership ran aground off Colombia on January 7, before being refloated by three tugs.

The Maryland Board of Pilots decided to enact a rule change that forbids on-duty pilots from using their phones, after the grounding of the Ever Forward in Chesapeake Bay.

Suez Canal maritime traffic continued under normal conditions on January 9, after a Norwegian-owned cargo vessel ran aground, before being refloated and towed away.

Evergreen, the owner of the Ever Forward container ship, which ran aground in the Chesapeake Bay in March 2022, was ordered to pay Maryland $676,000 as a penalty for the accident.

According to UK MAIB, the skipper of a large scallop dredger became confused by the multitude of shore lights and struggled to ascertain his position in the channel.

As per the latest Safety Digest report by the UK MAIB, the log transducer of a ro-ro cargo ferry was damaged and paint had been scraped from the shell plating.

AMSA provides lessons learned from an incident where a fishing vessel ran aground on a reef between Bundaberg and Torres Strait. The master was fatigued, having had little sleep given the watchkeeping schedule and the competency levels of the two deckhands. 

A general cargo vessel's starboard contacted a steep rocky shore, after a heavy rain squall caused significant clutter on the master’s radar display.

According to UK MAIB, a cargo vessel grounded on a stone training wall, suffering substantial damage to the hull bottom and significant flooding of the engine room and ballast tanks.