17 missing as Chinese fishing boat hits cargo shipSeventeen people were missing after a Chinese fishing boat collided with a Maltese cargo ship and sank in the East China Sea on Saturday, state media reported, citing the country's coastguard fleet. The fishing boat, Lu Rong Y More… |
Hurricane batters Bahamas, fate of cargo ship unknownThe fate of more than 30 crew aboard a cargo ship missing off the Bahamas in heavy seas whipped up by Hurricane Joaquin was unknown on Friday as the storm battered the island chain for a second day. News the vessel had lost contac More… |
Iranian forces fire warning shots, seize US cargo shipIranian forces boarded a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf on Tuesday after patrol boats fired warning shots across its bow and ordered it deeper into Iranian waters, the Pentagon said. US planes and a destroyer were More… |
Cargo ship sinks off Istanbul; 12 crew missingTurkish rescuers were searching for eleven Ukrainian and one Russian crew members on Tuesday after their cargo ship sank in a storm off Istanbul's Black Sea coast, the coastal safety authority said. The Volgo Balt 199, which w More… |
Cargo ship sinks off Istanbul; 12 crew missingTurkish rescuers were searching for eleven Ukrainian and one Russian crew members on Tuesday after their cargo ship sank in a storm off Istanbul's Black Sea coast, the coastal safety authority said. The Volgo Balt 199, which w More… |
UAE forces storm hijacked ship, detain piratesUnited Arab Emirates special forces stormed a cargo ship hijacked in the Arabian Sea, freeing the crew and detaining the pirates on Saturday, the official news agency Wam said. Anti-terrorism forces acting in coordination with the US Fift More… |
Pirates seize cargo ship off Oman coastSuspected Somali pirates have hijacked a merchant ship with 27 crew off the sultanate of Oman, the head of a regional maritime group and the European Union Naval Force of Somalia said on Saturday. Andrew Mwangura of the Kenyan-based East A More… |
Somali pirates leave Greek vesselPirates seized a Greek-operated cargo ship 900 nautical miles off the Somali coast but abandoned it shortly afterwards, the vessel's manager said on Monday. The pirates left the MV Lugela about day after boarding it on Saturday and fin More… |
Somali pirates hijack Cambodian cargo shipSomali gunmen hijacked a Cambodian cargo ship, the MV Layla-S, off Berbera after it unloaded at the port in the breakaway northern enclave of Somaliland, a regional maritime official said on Thursday. "Crew members on board the ill-fated v More… |