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2019


                                    Incident
         Name           IMO No.                  Deadweight   Built        Flag         Class        Loss of life
                                    Date
                        9245237     20-Aug-19    52378        2002 *       Indonesia    NK           27
                        Reported cause: Cargo liquefaction (Likely root cause: cargo liquefaction) - carrying nickel
                        ore from Weda island (North Maluku) to Morosi (southeast Sulawesi), Indonesia, Bulk carrier Nur
                        Allya disappeared near Buru Island in Maluku on 20 Aug 2019, with all the 27 seafarers onboard
                        drowned. Authorities located the missing bulk carrier Nur Allya – 843 meters beneath the ocean,
         Nur Allya
                        in the eastern ‘spice islands’ of Maluku in Oct 2019.
                        Investigation report on IMO GISIS: available on 2021.11.12 (27 months) (Note: some sections in
                        English and some in Bahasa Indonesia)
                        Note . The Certificate of Nationality states that her YOB is 2001, while both Equasis and her
                           *
                        class Certificates state 2002 as the YOB.
        2020


                                     Incident
         Name           IMO No.                  Deadweight   Built        Flag         Class        Loss of life
                                     Date
                                                                           Marshall
                        9726803      24-Feb-20   300660       2016                      KR           0
                                                                           Islands
                        Reported cause: Grounding (Likely root cause: human element) – VLOC Stellar Banner ran aground
                        off the coast of Brazil earlier on 24 Feb 2020 while carrying 294,871 metric tons of iron ore.
         Stellar Banner  All 20 crew members were evacuated. The ship was refloated on June 3 after 145,000 metric tons
                        of iron ore and 3,900 cubic meters of bunker fuel were lightered. Due to the extent of hull
                        damage suffered as a result of the incident, the ship was declared a total constructive loss on
                        4 June 2020 and scuttled about 150 kilometers from the coast of Maranhão on June 12, 2020.
                        Investigation report on IMO GISIS: available on 2021.11.12 (21 months)
                                     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) carrying around 3,894 tonnes of fuel oil and no cargo, she tried to reduce
                        the distance from the coast from 5 nautical miles to 2 nautical miles to enter an area within
         Wakashio
                        the communication range of mobile phones and used 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: available on 2021.7.21 (12 months)
        2021

                                     Incident
         Name           IMO No.                  Deadweight   Built        Flag         Class        Loss of life
                                     Date
                                                                                        Isthmus
                        8401793      13-Jan-21   23386        1984         Panama       Bureau of    0
                                                                                        Shipping
         Yong Feng      Reported cause: Cargo shift (Likely root cause: unknown) - Yong Feng, carrying a cargo of timber,
                        listed sharply when the cargo shifted, took on water, capsized and sank in the Philippine Sea on
                        13 Jan 2021. All 22 crewmembers were rescued.
                        Investigation report on IMO GISIS: No.
                                     Incident
         Name           IMO No.                  Deadweight   Built        Flag         Class        Loss of life
                                     Date
                        9370783      12-Aug-21   49549        2008         Panama       NK           0
                        Reported cause: Grounding (Likely root cause: weather) –  Woodchip carrier Crimson Polaris,
                        carrying a cargo of timber, was swept away by a strong wind while anchored and ran aground
         Crimson        in heavy weather off the port of Hachinohe in northern Japan on 11 August and broke up
         Polaris
                        on 12 August 2021. Oil was found leaking from the cracked rear part of the ship. All 21
                        crewmembers were rescued.
                        Investigation report on IMO GISIS: No










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