Three detained foreign human traffickers will be sued in connection with Wednesday's shooting on a vessel carrying more than 300 illegal migrants in Bay of Bengal , an official said Thursday.
Chief executive officer of the sunken South Korean ferry's operator, Chonghaejin Marine, was arrested Friday for overlooking the inveterate overloading, which led to the vessel's sinking.
A passenger ship carrying 475 people, mostly high school students, capsized in waters off South Korea's southwest coast Wednesday, leaving at least nine people dead and 287 others still missing, local media reported Thursday citing the country's central disaster and safety countermeasures headquarters.
An emergency response team assembled by the Ministry of Transport (MOT) set out early Sunday from south China's Sanya Port in Hainan Province to the sea area where it is thought the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 might have crashed.
The Russian Navy on Thursday confirmed the start of building of the diesel-electric naval submarine Krasnodar with a formal ceremony at the Admiralty Shipyards in St. Petersburg, Russia.
A crew member on the fishing boat which sank Wednesday morning after colliding with a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) transport vessel off Hiroshima Prefecture died early on Thursday, bringing the death toll to two, local media reported.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has requested the U.S. Coast Guard's icebreaker Polar Star to assist the Russian vessel MV Akademik Shokalskiy and the Chinese vessel Xue Long (Snow Dragon)which are stuck by ice in Antarctica
Eleven people were rescued and five remain missing after a container vessel sank off the coast of east China's Jiangsu Province, rescuers said Friday.
The fishing vessel of a group of activists from Taiwan was obstructed on Thursday by Japanese coast guard ships in the waters surrounding the Diaoyu Islands, and failed to make a landing.
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