Tag: Stranded

A shipload of Spanish cattle, which had been stranded for months due to concerns over the bovine bluetongue disease docked in Spain on Thursday, according to the region's government. However,the fate of the animals still remains unclear.

According to the Greenland shipping company, Royal Arctic Line, its vessel "Malik Arctica" has been stuck in the ice off the east coast of Greenland for almost two days.

Following the COVID-19 lockdown, Indian navy is sending its naval ships, Jalashwa and Magar to the Port of Malè, Maldives so as to repatriate Indian citizens which are stranded oversea due to the pandemic.

According to the U.S. Naval Forces Command, on 18 December the U.S. flagged container ship named "Maersk Kinloss", managed to save the life of three Iranian mariners who have been stranded at sea for several days.

The bulk carrier, Centennial Harmony, that was stranded 250 nautical miles southeast of St. John's, is now safe after battling power outages and flooding on November 15. The Centennial Harmony put out a distress call due to taking on water, but gained control of the flooding by the evening hours.

US Coast Guard crews rescued six boaters on Sunday, October 7, after their vessel became disabled 38-miles east of Savannah. Boaters on the vessel had activated their personal locating beacon to contact the US Coast Guard. There are no reported injuries and all boaters had life jackets.

A 250-foot Tanzanian-flagged cargo ship, Alta, with 10 people onboard, became disabled while transiting from Greece to Haiti, and was unable to make repairs. The crew reported that they had enough food for two days and water for 15 days, and that there were no injuries or immediate medical concerns.

After colliding with an underwater obstruction in the Mississippi river, a down-bound fully laden bulk carrier suffered a flooded forepeak tank and could not trim to a shallow enough draft to continue her transit. A repair team helped the vessel continue its transit down the river and across the Atlantic to offload cargo.

The crew of the US Coast Guard Cutter Donald Horsley along with the Liberian-flagged bulk carrier ship Skiathos rescued three stranded boaters, a man and two women, on June 8, 75 nautical miles south of Puerto Rico. The three were stranded at the Caribbean Sea for 21 days, after their boat became disabled and adrift.

In its latest Harvey update, the US Department of Energy informed that over 20 oil tankers are stranded off Texas oil ports, unable to discharge their cargoes, as the ports are closed to vessel traffic.