Accidents

Ukrainian authorities launched an investigation against the captain of a Russian oil tanker accused of causing a major spill in the Kerch Strait by ignoring severe weather conditions while transiting.

In the wake of the MSC ELSA 3 container vessel sinking off the coast of Kochi on May 25, 2025, Greenpeace South Asia has issued a strong call for corporate accountability, environmental justice, and immediate action to protect marine life and coastal communities.

Missouri prosecutors filed state charges against three employees involved in a 2018 boat accident on a lake in the tourist town of Branson in which 17 people lost their lives.

The Japanese product tanker 'Orange Victoria' is under investigation at Kochi Port, India, suspect in a hit and run incident off Kochi. Suspicions are the ship, with 23 crew members onboard, hit the fiberglass fishing boat 'Achu' in the night hours of 18 March.

St. Simons Sound Incident response team released a video where responders lift and lower Section Two of the Golden Ray wreck onto the Barge JULIE B and commence ballasting operations.

The spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry, Wang Wenbin, thanked Russia for the rescue of 14 sailors from China who onboard a ship carrying cargo that went aground near Russia’s Nakhodka.

NGO Shipbreaking Platform has raised alarm over that fact that just weeks before the Hong Kong Convention (HKC) for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships is set to take effect on 26 June, a worker died at Alang, the world’s largest shipbreaking yard.

IMCA released its Safety Flashes for November describing a failure on low-pressure port blanking cap.

The US Coast Guard received a report at about 08:45 Friday morning that the 90-foot vessel American Challenger was adrift, after the tug that was towing lost propulsion due to a rope entangling the propeller.

The insurers of the X-Press Pearl, the container ship which sustained fire and sank off Sri Lanka in early June causing major pollution, have agreed to pay approximately Rs 720 Million US ($3.6 million) as compensation to the Sri Lankan fishermen affected by the disaster.