After One Year, China Acknowledges Fatal South China Sea Collision

Published Aug 9, 2026 10:58 PM by The Maritime Executive

Chinese officials appear to have acknowledged that the collision between a PLA Navy warship and a China Coast Guard cutter near Sc...

MSC Boxship Partially Sinks off Zhoushan

Published Aug 9, 2026 9:26 PM by The Maritime Executive

The boxship MSC Silvana VIII has partially sunk off the coast of Zhoushan, and it took on a precarious position just ahead of the...

Published Aug 9, 2026 3:27 PM by The Maritime Executive

Oil is continuing to flow from the wreck of a Russian dark fleet Suezmax, the Cameroon-flagged Caroline Bezengi (IMO 9224439), bea...

Published Aug 9, 2026 1:40 PM by The Maritime Executive

Last week, two good Samaritan ships rescued the crew of a burning car carrier in the Eastern Pacific, far from shore. At about 130...

Published Aug 7, 2026 11:42 AM by The Maritime Executive

The salvage effort to remove the wreck of the containership MSC Baltic III has begun pulling the hull of the vessel onto shore for...

Published Aug 6, 2026 4:14 PM by The Maritime Executive

The National Transportation Safety Board has released its report on the collision of the Chinese bulker Yangze 7 and the towboat M...

Published Aug 5, 2026 10:52 PM by The Maritime Executive

Sentinel-2c satellite imagery taken on August 5 off the northern tip of Oman’s Musandam Peninsula shows the extent of damage infli...

Published Aug 4, 2026 5:51 PM by The Maritime Executive

The environmental catastrophe predicted when salvage surveyors inspected the Russian dark fleet Supermax, the Cameroon-flagged Car...

Published Aug 4, 2026 5:28 PM by The Maritime Executive

India's shipping ministry reports that an Indian-flagged vessel was hit and sunk in the southern Red Sea, the latest war-risk casu...

Published Aug 4, 2026 2:10 PM by The Maritime Executive

Salvors have completed the removal of a rail-mounted portal crane that fell off of Pier G at the former Charleston Naval Base last...