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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, the Nur Allya
disappeared near Buru Island in Maluku on 20 Aug 2019, with all 27 seafarers on board drowned.
Authorities located the missing bulk carrier 843 meters beneath the ocean, in the eastern ‘spice
Nur Allya 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 metres 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 kilometres 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
Wakashio
within 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. The ship 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) – The 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 crew members 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 on 12
Polaris
August 2021. Oil was found leaking from the cracked stern section of the ship. All 21 crew
members were rescued.
Investigation report on IMO GISIS: No

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