Tag: vessel capsizes

On 24th August, two crew missing after two cargo vessels collided of the coast of Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan.

Oil rig Majestic capsized on August 15th in Nigeria when in-transit to its planned drilling location at Ovhor in Delta State.

Between Thursday, August 3 and Friday, August 4, 41 migrants are believed to have died in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea.

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.

Earlier today a boat transporting refugees and migrants sank off Greece, resulting in approximately 80 people dead and many missing.

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.