Page 20 - INTERCARGO - Bulk Carrier Casualty Report 2021

2017

Incident
Name IMO No. Deadweight Built Flag Class Loss of life
Date
Marshall
9038725 31-Mar-17 266141 1993 KR 22
Islands
Reported cause: Flooding (Likely root cause: catastrophic Structural Failure) - The vessel,
Stellar Daisy
loaded with a cargo of iron ore from Brazil, sank in South Atlantic shortly after issuing a
distress signal. 2 crew members were rescued with 22 missing.
Investigation report on IMO GISIS: available on 2019.4.20 (25 months)
Incident
Name IMO No. Deadweight Built Flag Class Loss of life
Date
Hong Kong,
9449261 13-Oct-17 57367 2010 DNV GL 10
China
Reported cause: Unknown (Likely root cause: Unknown) – The vessel, loaded with nickel ore cargo
Emerald Star
from Buli, Indonesia, sank in the waters East of the Philippines. 16 crew members were rescued
with 10 crew members missing.
Investigation report on IMO GISIS: No

2018

Incident
Name IMO No. Deadweight Built Flag Class Loss of life
Date
No bulk
carrier
casualty Investigation report on IMO GISIS:
reported

2019

Incident
Name IMO No. Deadweight Built Flag Class Loss of life
Date
9245237 20-Aug-19 52378 2002 Indonesia NK 25
Reported cause: Sank (Likely root cause: unknown) – with 25 crew and carrying Nickel Ore from
Weda island (North Maluku) to Morosi (southeast Sulawesi), Indonesia, Bulk carrier Nur Allya
Nur Allya disappeared near Buru Island in Maluku on 20 Aug 2019. Authorities located the missing bulk
carrier Nur Allya – 843 metres beneath the ocean, in the eastern ‘spice islands’ of Maluku in
Oct 2019.
Investigation report on IMO GISIS: No

2020

Incident
Name IMO No. Deadweight Built Flag Class Loss of life
Date
9337119 25-Jul-20 203130 2007 Panama NK 0
Reported cause: grounding (Likely root cause: human element) – on the day of grounding on a reef
off Mauritius (July 25), she tried to reduce the distance from the coast from 5 nautical miles
to 2 nautical miles to enter an area within the communication range of mobile phones and used
Wakashio
a nautical chart without sufficient scale to confirm the accurate distance from the coast and
water depth; broke in two on 12 Aug; more than 1,000 tonnes of fuel seeped from a crack in the
hull.
Investigation report on IMO GISIS: No