Small plastic pellets washed up on the east coast of the UK, a week after two ships collided in the country’s waters. Nurdles, which are used to make plastic products and are usually just a few millimeters in size, were …
Four Dutch crew members involved in a ship collision in Singapore have pleaded guilty for their role in the city-state’s worst oil spill in a decade, the Straits Times reported Wednesday. Richard Ouwehand, Martin Hans Sinke, Eric Peijpers, and Merijn …
The collision of a cargo ship and a fuel tanker off the eastern coast of England in the North Sea is likely to hit multiple marine insurance policies, carrying an estimated combined insured value of between $50 million and $100 …
The captain of the Solong container ship that crashed near the UK is a Russian national, the ship’s owner said. The rest of the crew are a mix of Russian and Filipino, shipping company Ernst Russ AG said in a …
A collision involving a tanker carrying jet fuel for the U.S. military and a container ship off Britain’s coast is an unusual incident that raises questions over what went wrong despite safety measures in place, three shipping and insurance sources …
A US oil tanker that was struck by a container ship in the North Sea on Monday was smoldering with a gaping hole in its side, footage broadcast by BBC News showed. Focus is now shifting to the environmental impact …
A Russian underwater cable in the Baltic Sea has been damaged by an unspecified external impact, Tass reported on Saturday, citing the telecommunications provider PJSC Rostelecom. Restoration work is underway and the incident has had no impact on subscribers so …
Sweden detained a vessel suspected of damaging a subsea data cable connecting it with Latvia, the third such incident in the Baltic Sea in the past three months. The Security Service said it’s conducting a preliminary investigation into the crime …
The European Union’s new digital chief, Henna Virkkunen, suggested the repeated damage to undersea cables in the Baltic Sea couldn’t be fully accidental, as leaders from the region prepare to gather for a NATO summit devoted to the topic. “It …
Two undersea telecommunications cables that were damaged in the Baltic Sea on Dec. 25 appeared to have been torn apart by a strong external force, Finland’s Elisa said on Monday, adding that they had now been repaired. Baltic Sea nations …
