#Maritime Safety

Articles (15)

• 🇺🇸 Maryland settles with owner and operator of ship that crashed into bridge, causing deadly collapse — 09/04/2026 [USA]

  Maryland has reached a settlement with the owner and operator of the massive cargo ship that crashed into a Baltimore bridge two years ago, causing its deadly collapse, state officials announced Thurs...

  Related: #Legal Settlement, #Infrastructure Disaster
• 🇺🇸 Containers at risk of falling from ship in Long Beach — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Containers at risk of falling from ship in Long Beach

  Related: #Port Incident
• 🇬🇧 TV tonight: The horror of the devastating Sea Empress oil spill, 30 years on — 19/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>A documentary charts the environmental disaster on the Welsh coast. Plus: how to make the most of supermarket loyalty schemes. Here’s what to watch this evening</p><p><strong>9pm, BBC Two</strong><...

  Related: #Environmental Disaster
• 🇺🇸 An Abandoned Russian Tanker Is Drifting at Sea. Will Anyone Stop It? — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  An attack forced its crew to abandon ship in early March. No country has intervened, despite fears of environmental disaster.

  Related: #Environmental Risk
• 🇬🇧 Italy warns stricken Russian tanker could explode in Med at any time — 17/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  Italy is one of nine EU countries urging the European Commission to act over the Arctic Metagaz drifting out of control in the Med.

  Related: #Environmental Risk
• 🇬🇧 Russian tanker adrift in Mediterranean poses 'imminent and serious' threat, EU states say — 16/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  A Russian natural gas tanker adrift in the Mediterranean Sea represents an "imminent and serious" ecological threat, several European nations have warned.

  Related: #Environmental Risk
• 🇺🇸 Advocates push for major probe as US boat strikes in Latin America kill 157 — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is set to hold first hearing on US's alleged extrajudicial killings.

  Related: #International Incidents
• 🇺🇸 At least 14 dead after migrant boat crashes into Turkish coastguard vessel — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  Collision involving inflatable boat carrying migrants or refugees occurs off southwestern Turkiye's Antalya province.

  Related: #Migration Crisis
• 🇬🇧 ‘We’re powerless … and hoping nothing hits us’: trapped on a tanker as Iran war escalates — 06/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Seafarer tells of explosions in the sky as thousands stuck on vessels after strait of Hormuz is effectively closed to shipping</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/04/mariti...

  Related: #Geopolitical Conflict
• 🇺🇸 Towards Explainable Deep Learning for Ship Trajectory Prediction in Inland Waterways — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  arXiv:2603.04472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate predictions of ship trajectories in crowded environments are essential to ensure safety in inland waterways traffic. Recent advances in deep...

  Related: #Explainable AI, #Trajectory Prediction
• 🇺🇸 Seafarers can refuse to sail through Mideast Gulf region, main union says — 05/03/2026 [USA] Related: #Labor Rights
• 🇺🇸 Migrant boat capsizes off Libya leaving 53 dead — 09/02/2026 [USA]

  The IOM says that almost 500 people have been reported dead or missing off Libya so far this year.

  Related: #Human Rights, #Migration
• 🇺🇸 2 babies among dozens missing as migrant boat sinks off Libya — 09/02/2026 [USA]

  The International Organization for Migration says two infants are among at least 53 people feared dead or missing after a boat capsized off Libya's coast.

  Related: #Migration, #Human Rights
• 🇺🇸 The 'striking silence' that convinced police a captain was at fault for the North Sea tanker crash — 05/02/2026 [USA]

  The top detective investigating the tanker collision says there were early signs of gross negligence from Vladimir Motin

  Related: #Criminal Investigation, #Accountability, #Human Error
• 🇺🇸 Captain guilty of North Sea tanker crash death — 02/02/2026 [USA]

  Vladimir Motin is convicted of gross negligence manslaughter after a crew member died in the crash.

  Related: #Legal Accountability, #Workplace Negligence, #Environmental Impact