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Hurtigruten’s coastal cruise ship the Richard With ran aground at the entrance to the Sognefjord on August 5. The cruise ship was traveling without passengers.

The bodies of 25 people have been recovered after a floating crane reportedly sank off south China’s Guangdong Province in early July.

On August 2, a fire broke out onboard the newly-built factory trawler at a shipyard in St. Petersburg. 

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim has welcomed the departure from Odesa of the first commercial ship to leave the port under the United Nations supported Black Sea Grain Initiative to establish a humanitarian maritime corridor for the safe passage of ships from Ukraine.  

A container feeder capsized at the pier at a terminal in Shunan City, Japan on July 31, during cargo operations.

The Ocean Cleanup has now officially removed more than 100,000 kg of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP).

The ro/pax ferry Trans-Asia 1, which had grounded off the island of Cebu in the Philippines last December, caught fire under unknown circumstances and burned for 13 hours.

Two years after the Titanic sinking made headlines, Liverpool suffered another shipping tragedy, when the state-of-the-art passenger ship “Empress of Ireland” sank in St. Lawrence River, Canada, killing over 1,000 people.

A new animation video by Seafarers' International Research Centre (SIRC), Cardiff University, aims to highlight the consequences of poor accommodation for seafarers and for the recruitment and retention of high quality personnel in the cargo sector.

An Indonesian inter-island cargo ship crushed a fishing boat that strayed into the shipping lane. There were 15 crewmembers aboard the fishing boat at the time of the collision, and all are safe.