5 Killed after Ships Collide off Northeast China [-Another ship bearing Cambodia's flag of convenience involved]

2010-06-20
Xinhua

Five sailors drowned and two more were missing after a Cambodian freighter collided with a Panamanian cargo ship and sank off northeast China's Liaoning Province early Sunday morning.

Nine crew members were aboard the Cambodia-registered "Haijung" when the accident happened at 1:47 a.m. Sunday on seawaters off Lushun, a district of Dalian City, the municipal maritime affairs bureau said.

Bodies of four sailors - three Burmese and one citizen from the Republic of Korea (ROK) - were recovered while a Burmese crew member died after being pulled from the water.

The "Jingfeng" crew saved two other crew members, an Indonesian and a Burmese.

The ROK captain and an Indonesian sailor were still missing.

"Jingfeng" arrived at Dalian Port Sunday afternoon.

Rescuers are still searching for the missing sailors.

The sunken freighter, about one tenth the size of the Panamanian cargo ship, was carrying 2,000 tonnes of sodium carbonate (soda).

According to the Cambodian freighter's shipping agency, the non-toxic sodium carbonate does not pose a threat to the environment.

An Indonesian body found in Yellow Sea [after collision with a ship flying Cambodia's flag of convenience]

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Seoul/Incheon (ANTARA News) - South Korea`s Coast Guard on Saturday discovered the body of a second crew member from a fishing boat that sank in the Yellow Sea while returning from a search for clues to last week`s naval disaster.

The body, found floating 50 kilometers southwest of Daecheong Island, has been identified as that of 35-year-old Yusuf Haaefa of Indonesia, a crew member aboard the 99-ton Kumyang 98 fishing boat that sank late Friday, the Incheon Coast Guard said.

The fishing boat, with a crew of nine including two Indonesian nationals, was one of several vessels employed by authorities to help search for evidence that could shed light on why the 1,200-ton Navy corvette Cheonan sank on March 26 near the maritime border with North Korea.

The Taiyo-1 -- a Cambodian-registered freighter -- has been detained by authorities in relation to the sinking of the South Korean fishing boat. Earlier in the day, the Coast Guard found the body of 55-year-old crew Kim Jong-pyong not far from where the latest recovery was made.

The Coast Guard is currently using helicopters and patrol boats to search for the other members of the Kumyang 98 crew, with the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to pitch in with three fishing control vessels.

The Navy, meanwhile, said it discovered the hull of the ill-fated fishing boat 48 kilometers southwest of Daecheong and attached a marker buoy to identify it location.

Collision between a Cambodia-flag cargo ship and a S.Korean fishing boat searching missing sailors

S.Korea Navy loses contact with fishing boat searching missing sailors

SEOUL, April 2 (Xinhua) -- South Korean Coast Guard lost contact late Friday with a fishing boat conducting search operation for missing sailors of a sunken warship in the Yellow Sea. The Coast Guard said it was feared sunken, according to Seoul 's Yonhap News Agency.

The Coast Guard said it received a signal of distress sent by the 100-ton fishing boat at around 20:30 p.m. local time (1130 GMT) .

A search and rescue mission was launched by the Coast Guard and the Navy immediately after receiving the distress call, but they have yet found the ship, reports said.

The ship, with 9 crew members onboard, might have sunken as the rescue group only spotted a belf of oil in the area, according to the Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard suspected that the boat "Kumyang 98" went down after it collided with a passing-by Cambodia-flag cargo ship, while returning from the search operation for 46 missing sailors of the Navy ship "Cheonan" that sank last Friday night near the South Korean island of Baekryeongdo off the west coast of the Korean Peninsula due to an unexplained explosion, reports said.

The Coast Guard and the Navy currently are pursuing the cargo ship.

Russian, Cambodian ships collide in Black Sea

SOFIA, November 2 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian ship Nikolai Psomiadi and the ship Dolian flying the Cambodian flag, collided in neutral waters of the Black Sea off Bulgaria on Monday.

According to the Marine Rescue and Coordination Centre in Varna, the incident occurred outside Bulgaria’s 12-mile territorial zone during a storm. The captains of both ships rejected the offers of help.

The press service of the ministry of transport, communications and information technologies said the Bulgarian Navy has been notified of the incident. A helicopter is ready to fly to the scene of the incident, if need be.

Indian ship collides with Cambodian craft, crew safe

30 Oct 2008
The Times of India

MUMBAI: Thirty-six Indian sailors on board a vessel are reported to be safe after the vessel collided with a Cambodian craft in South Korean waters.

The collision occurred on Wednesday. The Indian vessel, MT Desh Viraat, has been anchored at Busan in South Korea for investigations into the incident, the Directorate General of Shipping said in a release.

"The master and second engineer have been taken to the marine police for investigation," it said.

The vessel was on its maiden voyage on South Korean waters. The Cambodian craft sank and its crew has been rescued by the Korean Coast Guard, the release said.

The Cambodian vessel had 10 Chinese and Vietnamese crew members.

Alleged Cambodian ship sank off China's coast after collision

April 09, 2007
At least 20 missing after two ships collide

From correspondents in Beijing

TWENTY sailors on a cargo ship were missing after their boat collided with another vessel and sank off eastern China.

The accident occurred in the Taizhou strait off the coast of Zhejiang province, the State Administration of Work Safety said on its website, citing maritime police.

The 3700-tonne cargo ship was identified by its name Harvest, the administration report said. The ship was laden with around 5000 tonnes of steel products when the accident occurred.

Nineteen Chinese sailors and one Indian were aboard the ship when it sank after colliding with the 17,000-tonne Chinese vessel Jinhaikun.

The boat was travelling from China's eastern port of Shanghai to Vietnam, it reported.

Xinhua news agency said the ship was Cambodian, although the administration report said it was registered in Belize.

Officials at the Taizhou maritime police were unable to immediately comment on the accident.

Search vessels were currently searching the area for survivors, Xinhua reported.

The cause of the collision is under investigation.