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These underwater photos released today show damage to the starboard side of the Costa Concordia, below the water line.  As you can see there is quite a bit

Upon departure from the port of a Giglio, an island off the northwestern coast of Italy, the cruise ship Costa Concordia struck a reef, tearing a 50 meter-long

UPDATE: The captain of the cruise ship COSTA CONCORDIA has been arrested by Italian police as an investigation into Friday night’s grounding is

Early this week five tug boats were called out from Freeport Bahamas to pull the 93,300-ton cruise ship MSC Poesia from a reef just two miles from the port.

The Maltese-flagged TK Bremen, a cargo ship traveling along Northwest coast of France, ran aground Friday in southern Brittany in high winds and heavy seas. 

AUCKLAND—A stranded cargo vessel off the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island has spilled more oil into the ocean, as efforts to pump the

TAURANGA, New Zealand (Dow Jones)–Several beaches on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island were closed to the public from Thursday and

By Lucy Craymer And Rebecca Howard, Wall Street Journal WELLINGTON—Oil spilling from a cargo vessel stranded off the east coast of New Zealand’s

By Lucy Craymer, Wall Street Journal WELLINGTON—Oil from the damaged cargo vessel MV Rena has started to wash up on a popular beach on the east coast of

WELLINGTON (Dow Jones)–Aerial observation flights are planned Friday to determine how much oil is leaking from a stranded container ship off the east

The Waikato Times of New Zealand reports that the 236-meter Liberian flagged container ship, M/V Rena aground on Astrolabe Reef yesterday about 6 nautical

TAIPEI—The death toll in an accident involving a cargo vessel that ran aground off Taiwan’s northern coast has risen from four to six. In a

TAIPEI—Four crew members died Monday and six were missing after a cargo vessel ran aground in heavy seas off the northern Taiwanese coast, the coast

This weeks incident photo is of the 584-foot car carrier, M/V Luminous ACE, aground at Puget Island near Cathlamet, WA, September 22.  The vessel grounded

MSC Luciana, a 363-meter containership outbound from Antwerp lost engine power this morning and ran aground on a sandbar in the Westerschelde, approximately

The Finnish ferry KING carrying 54 passengers ran aground Friday after its master got stuck in the bathroom, according to a report from Reuters based on a

Photo Seanews Turkey A Latvian captain has been placed under arrest after his ship ran aground, allegedly while the man was drunk.  The cargo vessel ALVA was

On July 29th the crew of the Motor Tanker Pavit made a Mayday call off the coast of Oman and were quickly rescued by local authorities but no attempt

  Photo: SHASHI ASHIWAL www.thehindu.com There must be a giant magnet sitting underneath Mumbai’s Juhu Beach because in less than 6 weeks, two huge

Merchant ships are a critical piece of worldwide movement of goods and materials around the world, and on occasion, they run into problems.  The following