Maritime Accidents

A tanker hauling 1 million barrels of oil suffered an explosion while near Libya, its manager said Monday.

Two large oil tankers, including a sanctioned vessel carrying Russian crude, caught fire after colliding near the Strait of Hormuz, raising concerns among global oil traders and shipping operators.

A man in Norway woke up to find a huge container ship had run aground and crashed into his front garden.

A ceremony to welcome a new addition to North Korea’s naval fleet has ended in embarrassment following a major accident during the ship’s launch that the country’s dictator, Kim Jong-un, described as a “criminal act”.

A detailed analysis of a full-sized digital scan of the Titanic has revealed new insight into the doomed liner's final hours.

The geophysical survey vessel had run aground on the north coast of Elba, Italy, on 22 March.

An unloaded LPG tanker ran aground on rocks at a beach on Koh Lan early on Tuesday morning.

The 183m-long tanker was carrying about 220,000 barrels of jet fuel in separate tanks, some of which has poured into the North Sea.

A number of people abandoned the vessels after the crash in the North Sea, with the RNLI sending rescue boats from Bridlington and several seaside towns in Lincolnshire.

Swedish and Finnish police are investigating a suspected case of sabotage of an undersea telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea, and Sweden's coast guard has deployed a vessel to the area where multiple seabed cables have been damaged in recent months.

Three oil tankers have been damaged by blasts in the last month in separate incidents around the Mediterranean, with the causes unknown, shipping and security sources said on Wednesday.

The fuel and oil vessel 'Ang Yang-2' has crashed near Sakhalin and ran aground near the port of Nevelsk. This was reported by the governor of the Sakhalin region, Valery Limarenko, on social media.