Nine people were feared dead on Wednesday after a container ship crashed in Italy’s busiest port of Genoa, bringing down a 50-meter (164-foot) control tower in an accident that revived memories of last year’s Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster.
The Philippine Coast Guard has placed all its stations and detachments on heightened alert and sea marshals deployed on passengers ships to ensure safe travel by sea as thousands of Filipinos head for the provinces to observe Holy Week and then return to their places of work after Easter, a Coast Guard spokesman said Tuesday.
A Cebu-based shipping line launched its newest vessel, MV Filipinas Butuan, last Saturday. MV Filipinas Butuan is Cokaliong Shipping Lines Inc.’s (Cokaliong) ninth vessel. Cokaliong has received numerous awards for excellence in sea travel.
Some ferry boats in different ports of Cebu voluntarily suspended their voyages on Wednesday because of bad weather.
Several flights and sea crossings by inter-island ferries were cancelled Tuesday because of bad weather and rough seas caused by tropical depression “Crising.”
A fisherman was injured when an oil tanker rammed a wooden-hulled fishing boat off Sangley Point in Cavite City Tuesday morning.
The Coast Guard has started collecting fuel from the cargo vessel that listed at the port of Ormoc City, Leyte, and leaked fuel last Saturday.
A ferry carrying about 200 passengers ran aground in the port of Dumaguete Thursday morning due to strong waves brought by tropical depression “Auring”, the Coast Guard said.
Nearly 1,000 passengers from various ports in the Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romlon, Palawan) region were stranded after ferry trips were canceled due to Typhoon “Pablo,” which slammed its way into the country via northeastern Mindanao early Tuesday.
The MV Rainbow Joy, a South Korean-registered general cargo ship, rammed a fishing boat off Ligid Island in Davao City on Saturday, causing the smaller vessel to sink instantly, the Philippine Coast Guard headquarters in Manila reported Sunday.
Two workers of a ship were killed after a colleague ran amok following an argument with one of the victims before dawn Friday, police said.
In order to strengthen the manufacturing sector and help generate employment, the country should start manufacturing its own firearms and building its own ships, a senator said Tuesday.
Work started yesterday to contain a posssible oil spill and to remove the week-old sunken cargo ship MV B and E Uno in the Mactan Channel. Salvage work on the vessel that carried 23,000 bags of cement from Iligan City will take one week, said Commodore Rolando Punzalan of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG). The [...]
