A crew member has died after a fire broke out on the Liberia-registered RoRo passenger ship World Legacy en route to Singapore. All 271 passengers were safely evacuated.
A London court jailed captain Vladimir Motin for six years after the March 2025 North Sea collision between Solong and Stena Immaculate that killed seafarer Mark Angelo Pernia.
A UK court convicted the Solong captain on 2 February over a fatal allision with the anchored tanker Stena Immaculate on 10 March 2025. Sentencing is reported for 5 February.
German maritime authorities contained an engine-room fire on the car carrier Thames Highway shortly after it left Emden, disabling the vessel and triggering a major multi-agency towing and firefighting operation.
Russian captain Vladimir Motin is on trial at London’s Old Bailey for gross negligence manslaughter after container ship Solong hit anchored tanker Stena Immaculate in March 2025, killing crewman Mark Angelo Pernia.
TSIB found that fatigue, bridge distraction and disabled radar alarms combined as Hafnia Nile closed the anchored Ceres I, leading to collision, fire and pollution response.
Sanctioned shadow-fleet tanker Qendil has run aground near Bozcaada in the Aegean while in ballast, prompting a KEGM tug response. No casualties or pollution have been reported so far.
Hong Kong court jailed a Chinese-registered tanker master for 14 months after a guilty plea over a fatal collision with a fishing boat on 17 November 2024.
Two Russian-linked sanctioned tankers were hit by blasts in the Black Sea, prompting a major emergency response from Turkish authorities. Fires broke out on both ships, but all crew were safely evacuated as officials investigated the cause.
