Page 21 - INTERCARGO - Bulk Carrier Casualty Report 2024

Incident
Name IMO No. Deadweight Built Flag Class Loss of life
Date
9614804 08-Aug-15 30910 2013 China CCS 0
Reported cause: Grounding (Likely root cause: navigation) - hit a reef near Zhoushan carrying
Jiang Quan 6 24,000 tons of ore while trying to avoid a collision with a fishing vessel. Equasis reports “In
casualty or repairing”.
Investigation report on IMO GISIS: No
Incident
Name IMO No. Deadweight Built Flag Class Loss of life
Date
9045912 24-Oct-15 71665 1993 Mexico ABS 0
Reported cause: Grounding (Likely root cause: Weather) - being victim to Hurricane Patricia
which hit the Mexico’s Pacific coast, the ship ran aground on the rocks and sustained
Los Llanitos considerable damage while at anchor off the coast with approximately 11,484 litres of oil, 489
cubic meters of diesel and other contaminants aboard the ship. The ship’s hull was cracked in
the middle.
Investigation report on IMO GISIS: available on 2018.12.13 (37 months)

2016

Incident
Name IMO No. Deadweight Built Flag Class Loss of life
Date
9138953 25-Feb-16 170082 1997 Panama NK 0
Suspected cause: Allision, grounding and flooding (Likely root cause: human error) - carrying
iron ore cargo, the ship struck the canal bank and ran aground in the Suez Canal with two
New Katerina
pilots on board while transiting in the southern direction and sustained considerable damage in
its fore part with water ingress.
Investigation report on IMO GISIS: available on 2017.04.18 (14 months)
Incident
Name IMO No. Deadweight Built Flag Class Loss of life
Date
9135688 29-Feb-16 161121 1997 Panama KRS 0
Suspected cause: Grounding and flooding (Likely root cause: human error) - Carrying 160,000
New Mykonos tons of coal from Richards Bay to Vizag, it ran aground near Faux Cap, Madagascar on 29 Feb and
broke in three parts and sank on 8 May 2016.
Investigation report on IMO GISIS: available on 2017.04.17 (15 months)
Incident
Name IMO No. Deadweight Built Flag Class Loss of life
Date
9172961 30-Jul-16 44183 1998 Liberia BV 0
Suspected cause: Grounding (Likely root cause: human error) - not carrying any cargo, it ran
Benita aground off Mahebourg on 17 Jun and sank under tow on 30 Jul approximately 93.5 nautical miles
from Mauritius.
Investigation report on IMO GISIS: available on 2019.04.22 (33 months)

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. Two 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: Cargo liquefaction (Likely root cause: cargo liquefaction) - loaded with nickel
ore cargo from Buli, Indonesia, cargo liquefaction and shifting occurred onboard Emerald Star
Emerald Star
causing the vessel heavily listed and finally capsized and sank approximately in position
19°03’N, 124°52’E at about 0140 hours on 13 October 2017. 16 crew members were rescued with 10
crew members missing.
Investigation report on IMO GISIS: available on 2021.06.02 (44 months)
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