Boat Collision

A collision Wednesday between a cargo ship and a fishing boat near the southern Chinese island of Hainan has left eight people missing, state media reported, as search efforts continued.

A Philippine boat and a Chinese Coast Guard ship collided near a hotly contested reef on Sunday, with both countries trading blame for the latest such confrontation in the disputed South China Sea.

Eight Danes were rescued on Wednesday after their sailboat capsized in the Pacific Ocean following a collision with a whale, the Danish Armed Forces said in a statement.

The Dutch coastguard is sending rescue boats and helicopters to evacuate 18 people from a ship that collided with another vessel in the middle of a storm off the coast of the Netherlands.

At least 25 people were killed in a collision between two boats in central Bangladesh on Monday, police said.

An Indian fishing boat allegedly trespassing the International Maritime Boundary Line sank in Sri Lankan waters after colliding with a Navy vessel of the island nation and a search and rescue operation was underway for the missing fishermen, the Navy said here on Tuesday.

At least 87 passengers in a high speed ferry were injured in an apparent collision with a marine animal in the sea of Japan on Saturday, coastguards and media said.

Ten people on a river cruise were killed when their boat collided with a tugboat late on Monday in the Russian city of Volgograd, which is hosting matches in the soccer World Cup, local officials and Russian media said.

A tanker carrying Iranian oil that collided with a Chinese freight ship in the East China Sea was still on fire on Tuesday morning, the Chinese government said, as dozens of rescue boats struggled to control the blaze for a third day.

A collision between a Vietnamese freighter and an Indonesian sailboat has left 15 people missing off Indonesia's East Java province.

Seventeen people were missing after a Chinese fishing boat collided with a Maltese cargo ship and sank in the East China Sea today, state media reported, citing the country's coastguard fleet.

A Russian destroyer in the Aegean Sea on Sunday opened fire to avoid a collision with a Turkish fishing boat, the defence ministry said, as a bitter dispute over the shooting down of a Russian warplane raged on.

A Taiwanese fishing boat capsized off the island's north coast on Friday morning after colliding with a gravel ship, leaving all nine fishermen on board missing, officials said.

At least 33 people died in Bangladesh today when a passenger ferry capsized after colliding with a trawler on the river Padma with more than 100 people aboard, police said.

A Hong Kong boat captain was today sentenced to eight years in prison for the manslaughter of 39 people in a 2012 ferry collision, the city's worst maritime disaster in nearly four decades.

A collision Wednesday between a cargo ship and a fishing boat near the southern Chinese island of Hainan has left eight people missing, state media reported, as search efforts continued.

A Philippine boat and a Chinese Coast Guard ship collided near a hotly contested reef on Sunday, with both countries trading blame for the latest such confrontation in the disputed South China Sea.

Eight Danes were rescued on Wednesday after their sailboat capsized in the Pacific Ocean following a collision with a whale, the Danish Armed Forces said in a statement.

The Dutch coastguard is sending rescue boats and helicopters to evacuate 18 people from a ship that collided with another vessel in the middle of a storm off the coast of the Netherlands.

At least 25 people were killed in a collision between two boats in central Bangladesh on Monday, police said.

An Indian fishing boat allegedly trespassing the International Maritime Boundary Line sank in Sri Lankan waters after colliding with a Navy vessel of the island nation and a search and rescue operation was underway for the missing fishermen, the Navy said here on Tuesday.

At least 87 passengers in a high speed ferry were injured in an apparent collision with a marine animal in the sea of Japan on Saturday, coastguards and media said.

Ten people on a river cruise were killed when their boat collided with a tugboat late on Monday in the Russian city of Volgograd, which is hosting matches in the soccer World Cup, local officials and Russian media said.

A tanker carrying Iranian oil that collided with a Chinese freight ship in the East China Sea was still on fire on Tuesday morning, the Chinese government said, as dozens of rescue boats struggled to control the blaze for a third day.

A collision between a Vietnamese freighter and an Indonesian sailboat has left 15 people missing off Indonesia's East Java province.

Seventeen people were missing after a Chinese fishing boat collided with a Maltese cargo ship and sank in the East China Sea today, state media reported, citing the country's coastguard fleet.

A Russian destroyer in the Aegean Sea on Sunday opened fire to avoid a collision with a Turkish fishing boat, the defence ministry said, as a bitter dispute over the shooting down of a Russian warplane raged on.

A Taiwanese fishing boat capsized off the island's north coast on Friday morning after colliding with a gravel ship, leaving all nine fishermen on board missing, officials said.

At least 33 people died in Bangladesh today when a passenger ferry capsized after colliding with a trawler on the river Padma with more than 100 people aboard, police said.

A Hong Kong boat captain was today sentenced to eight years in prison for the manslaughter of 39 people in a 2012 ferry collision, the city's worst maritime disaster in nearly four decades.