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The death of a worker at Hanwha Ocean’s shipyard early this month has ignited scrutiny over safety practices in South Korea’s shipbuilding industry.

Marine insurer Gard has published a new report analyzing five years of data from over 20,000 cases, shedding light on critical trends in seafarer injuries and

A Filipino seafarer has been sentenced to 20 years in U.S. prison for the brutal murder of a direct supervisor on board a MSC containership off the coast of

Prosecutors in the Philippines have filed charges against four crew members of a Marshall Islands-flagged bulk carrier that collided with a Filipino fishing

New Zealand’s maritime authority announced charges against the Ports of Auckland and an individual stemming from the death of port worker at a container

A crew member of a bulk carrier has died and three others injured after their ship was hit by a large wave several hundred miles off the coast of

The Australian Transportation Safety Bureau is highlighting the importance of applying existing safety management procedures after a containership’s crew

The International Transport Workers Federation is calling on Transport Canada to ban foreign-crew from undertaking lashing work while vessels are underway on

Three crew members of the Panama-flagged cargo ship Apollo Kita have died after being found uncounsous in a cargo hold of vessel in Japan. The three male

Two people were killed when a vessel’s mooring line snapped at the Port of Longview in southwestern Washington state last Thursday. The accident occurred as

Authorities in South Africa are investigating the death of a deputy sheriff who died while serving an arrest warrant on a vessel at an anchorage off Port

The Master of a containership is reported to have committed suicide aboard his ship during a recent voyage from New York and Tilbury, England. The

Transportation Safety Board of Canada has launched an investigation into a fatal accident involving the geared bulk carrier Nord Quebec at the port of

One person has died and another was seriously injured overnight in an explosion in the boiler room of a ship at the port of Felixstowe. Suffolk Police

A crew member of an offshore supply vessel has died in Brazil after being hit with the waterjet shot from the vessel’s water cannon, Brazilian media has

A Singapore-flagged containership has rescued three people from their battered yacht several hundred miles from New Zealand after a rigging accident

  By Hooyeon Kim SEOUL, Sept 6 (Reuters) – At least 10 people died and about eight were missing after a South Korean fishing boat capsized, a coast

Stena Drilling has pleaded guilty in Australia to charges related to a fatal accident on board its Stena Clyde semi-submersible drilling rig in 2012 in which

  A fatal accident occurred on board the Bahamas-flagged AHTS Skandi Pacific while off Western Australia on the on the Northwest Shelf on Tuesday.

A failure to maintain a proper lookout was determined to be the cause of a fatal collision between a Boskalis dredger and sailing yacht near Felixstowe in June