A Brief Look Back at Recent Car Carrier Fires
The fire on the car carrier Fremantle Highway in the North Sea is just the latest in a long and ever-growing list of fires involving vehicles on
The fire on the car carrier Fremantle Highway in the North Sea is just the latest in a long and ever-growing list of fires involving vehicles on
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has found that excessive speed during a harbor-assist maneuver caused a tugboat to collide with a containership
The Canadian Coast Guard is responding to a bunker fuel spill at the Port of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The Coast Guard said an
One person has died and several have been injured after a car carrier with some electric vehicles caught fire in the North Sea off the Netherlands overnight.
The Palau-flagged containership “ANGEL” sank overnight outside Taiwan’s Kaohsiung Port after its hull flooded, causing several empty
Almost 3 years after the Wakashio bulk carrier ran aground and spilled oil along the coast of Mauritius, the Panama Maritime Authority’s investigation
The U.S. Coast Guard and partner agencies are responding to a diesel fuel spill from a sunken tugboat on the Tennessee River, near Florence, Alabama. Most of
The March 2021 grounding of the Ever Given marked a critical moment for the maritime shipping industry. Its grounding came near start of the pandemic-fueled
The use of doubler plating in the repair of an uninspected fishing vessel’s hull eventually led to its sinking off Gloucester, Massachusetts, last year.
The fire on board the Grande Costa D’Avorio has been extinguished at Port Newark, New Jersey, the Unified Command announced Tuesday. The response will
A roll-on/roll-off cargo (Ro-Ro) ship grounded on Wolf Rock Lighthouse off Land’s End in Cornwall, England, before drifting off the rocks and later being
By Salvatore R. Mercogliano, Ph.D. The loss of Newark firefighters Augusto Acabou (45) and Wayne Brooks Jr., (49) on board the Grimaldi Lines
MEXICO CITY, July 8 (Reuters) – Mexican oil company Pemex estimates that a deadly fire on a majoroffshore platform off the southern edge
By Brandon Sapienza (Bloomberg) –OceanGate said it has halted all exploration and business operations, just a few weeks after five people were
By Ana Isabel Martinez MEXICO CITY, July 7 (Reuters) – Two workers died and another remained missing after a raging fire broke out early on
A Unified Command was continuing to respond to the fire on board the cargo vessel Grande Costa D’Avorio in Port Newark, New Jersey, on Friday. The Unified
The U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area has taken final action on its investigation involving the deadly collision between a U.S. Coast Guard cutter and a small
The operation to raise both sections of the OS 35 shipwreck out of the water off Gibraltar was successfully completed this week, with the two sections of the
By Amanda Gordon and Guillermo Molero (Bloomberg) –When word reached the Explorers Club that the Titan submersible had gone missing — with two of
MALAKASA/KALAMATA, Greece, June 30 (Reuters) – Survivors of a boat disaster that likely killed hundreds of migrants near Greece have given
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