Tag: vessel capsizes

According to Reuters, the oil leak from a capsized barge, carrying approximately 35,000 barrels of fuel oil off the coast of Tobago in early February, has been successfully halted, said the twin islands' government on 7th March 2024.

“Eurika! (I have found)”... Shouted Archimedes after he sunk in his bathtub, but did you know that the discovery behind that Eurika is the reason why ships float?

Since February 7th, 2024, the Tobago Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) has been responding on an incident of an overturned vessel and a resulting oil spill near Cove Eco Industrial and Business Park in Tobago.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has issued an investigation report, on the grounding and capsizing of fishing vessel challenger.

Hong Kong Merchant Shipping has issued an information note to draw lessons learned from an incident where a container vessel collided with a general cargo vessel at the Yangtze River, resulting in the capsizing of the general cargo vessel and the death of all six crew members.

Human Rights at Sea (HRAS) joins the calls of over 300 academics and thought-leaders for an investigation into the migrant shipwreck tragedy on 14 June 2023, off the coast of Pylos, Greece.

A Tanzanian cargo ship sank on January 24, in a jetty in the southern Iranian port of Assaluyeh, as state media reported.

Italy is investigating an incident during which a small general cargo ship tilted during a loading operation in Genoa, on January 17.

A cargo ship capsized in Taiwan Strait 90 nm west of Kaohsiung, on January 16, with all of the crew being rescued.

On January 16 morning, a small dredger capsized in the Mississippi River near Meraux, Louisiana, briefly forcing the waterway's closure to marine traffic.