Tag: incident investigation

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has published an investigation into an incident where a dry bulk carrier broke free from its mooring during high winds in the Brownsville Ship Channel in 2024, leading to a collision with a tugboat. 

A recent incident involving a bulk carrier in ballast condition highlights the dangers of improvisation and inadequate risk management during anchor handling.

A general cargo ship set sail towards a specific anchorage in a river to conduct a bunkering operation. Being ballasted and while transiting into the river at night, the weather conditions began to deteriorate. Regarding pilotage, a pilot had already embarked to assist the crew in executing safe navigation.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has issued an investigation report into the Grounding of Hagen Oldendorff which took place in Port Hedland, Western Australia on 9 April 2022. 

The ATSB has issued a number of safety recommendations after an electrical short circuit led to the grounding of a bulk carrier in the channel off Port Hedland, to address the risk associated with a single point of failure.

UK MAIB has issued an investigation report on the incident of an engine room fire on board ro-ro passenger ferry Stena Europe that took place in February 2023. 

UK MAIB has issued an investigation report on an incident where a crew member suffered fatal injuries due to being struck by a mooring line in August 2021. 

The EU Council has adopted four new pieces of the ‘maritime safety’ legislative package, amending the relevant directives on the investigation of accidents in the maritime transport sector, ship-source pollution, compliance with flag state requirements, and port state control.

The Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA) has issued an investigation report on a fatal lift incident aboard the passenger vessel Silver Nova on 22 February 2024.

UK MAIB has published an investigation report into an incident where at 13:53 on 20 July 2021, the bosun of the roll-on/roll-off cargo vessel Clipper Pennant was fatally crushed when he became trapped between a moving vehicle and the vessel’s structure.