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Update: According to Greek sources, vessel suffered water ingress in engine room and sailed to Greek waters, looking for shelter from stormy weather. Not clear yet if she’s aground or at anchor, reportedly 12 crew of Ukrainian and Azerbaijan ... continue reading

Tug KBS 208 suffered engine failure on Dec 19 in Tanjung Selor district waters, northeast Kalimantan, Indinesia, while towing barge loaded with 7500 tons of coal. Disabled tug was taken on tow to be towed to Tarakan, probably tug is ... continue reading

General cargo ship BBC KIBO collided with a tug when entering Porto Alegro, Brazil, on Dec 21, on arrival from Peru. Tug literally, was pinned on freighter’s bulbous bow, and dragged along for some time, until freighter ran out ... continue reading

General cargo ship PARAMUSHIR, berthed at Vladivostok Container Terminal, at 0830 LT Dec 19 reported hull breach in portside ballast tank on waterline level, 1 meter long and 0.2 meter wide. The ship is to be repaired, banned from ... continue reading

Ferry MERCRAFT 3 sank off Polillo Island, Quezon province, southeast Luzon, Philippines, in the morning Dec 21. Coast Guard received distress message at 1120 LT, ferry with some 258 people on board was caught in rough seas and sank, being ... continue reading

General cargo ship ANUGERAH ABADI I ran aground on reefs west of Labuan Bajo, East Nusa Tenggara, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, Flores sea, in the morning Dec 20, with some 50 passengers on board. There was some panic on board ... continue reading

Bulk carrier STELLAR ATLANTIC lost starboard anchor with first shackle while proceeding in sea canal Kaliningrad with pilot on board, at 1520 Moscow time Dec 19. Bulk carrier arrived from Dunkirk France, and was docked after accident. lost anchor doesn ... continue reading

Colombian Navy tug ARC PASCUAL DE ANDAGOYA sank in the morning Dec 19 in the Pacific waters of Colombia, being caught in heavy weather. 6 crew went into life raft or rafts and were rescued by nearby fishing vessel, later ... continue reading

General cargo ship BEZA ran aground in Ghent-Terneuzen Canal at Sluiskil at around 0810 UTC Dec 19, while proceeding to Ghent. She was refloated in about an hour with the help of tug, and taken to Autrichehaven, where she was ... continue reading

Dec 19: According to MRCC France, BORE SEA was disabled due to damaged cylinder. Tug MULTRATUG 7 was deployed, but is too weak to tow ro-ro alone, capably of preventing her drift only. Extra tug tug MULTRATUG 20 joined convoy ... continue reading

General cargo ship MANUELA E suffered mechanical failure and started to drift in Gibraltar Strait shortly after 0500 UTC Dec 17, while en route from Algeciras to Huelva, Spain. Spanish Salvage tug towed MANUELA E back to Algeciras, she was ... continue reading

Dec 18 Update: MAKEDONIA drifted ashore, see pics. Owner was ordered to remove the ship in 24 hours. MAKEDONIA was anchored since 2013, permission was granted for 30 days anchorage only. Since that time, she was at anchor, unmanned and ... continue reading

Bulk carrier DORA SCHULTE, which ran aground on Nov 20 in Limende Strait, between Bangka Belitung islands, was refloated on Dec 15 or earlier, and sailed, seemingly, to her initial port of destination, Cigading, westernmost Java, Sunda Strait. No information ... continue reading

Bulk carrier KM LONDON with cargo of wheat ran aground at 2010 LT Dec 14 on Columbia river near Crims Island, at 54.5. mile mark, while proceeding downstream from Vancouver WA., reported The Oregonian oregonlive.com. Two compartments in ... continue reading

Manly’s ferry NARRABEEN collided with sailing yacht at around 1440 LT Dec 16 in Sydney Harbor near Fort Denison, Australia. Three passengers were thrown overboard, rescued and treated for chest and leg injures. Not clear where those thrown overboard ... continue reading

General cargo vessel FAME in adverse weather conditions lost power and started to drift at around 1700 UTC Dec 14 west of Scottish Hebridean island of Lewis and Harris, North Atlantic, while en route from Stromness. Vessel drifted in southern ... continue reading

Passenger ship KELIMUTU with 516 passengers on board collided with cargo ship MAJU 88 on Dec 13 in Sampit river, shortly after departure from Sampit Port, southern Borneo, and proceeding downstream to Java sea. Ships collided in narrow channel, KELIMUTU ... continue reading

General cargo vessel SEA LEADER allided with berthed tanker SVL UNITY at 0714 Moscow time Dec 13, while unmooring at Kavkaz port, Kerch Strait, Russia. Both vessels sustained slight damages. As of 1300 UTC Dec 14, both vessels were still ... continue reading

Dec 14 FETEKOZ Update: Towage commenced in the afternoon Dec 13, port of destination unknown. It’s Funchal Madeira according to RED SEA FOS (ETA Dec 18) it’s still Bayonne according to tanker. Another Turkish tanker CY CORK (IMO ... continue reading

Brand new fish carrier RONIA DIAMOND ran aground on a rocky shallow north of Sortland, Norway, in the morning Dec 13. Vessel managed to come off rocks by own means, in about an hour or less than an hour, and ... continue reading