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A fire broke out in the engine room of the Liberian-flagged cargo ship Siya, on June 12, at Yalova, Turkey.
At the time of the incident, the ship was undergoing maintenance and repair at a shipyard operating in the Altınova Shipyards Region.
Firefighters in the region responded to the fire from the land, while the teams affiliated to the General Directorate of Coastal Safety intervened from the sea.
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The transport prosecutor’s office in Chuvash, Russia initiated an investigation into the cause of a deadly tug collision on the Volga River on June 12, which killed four.
At about midnight Sunday, a motorboat, identified as the Volzhanka Voyager 67, collided with the towboat Kolomensky 803 on the Volga near Cheboksary.
The crew of the tug were unharmed, but all four men aboard the motorboat were killed.
According to the transport prosecutors’ office:
Eyewitnesses explained that the boat was going across the ship’s passage and was trying to bypass the barge in front. But the boat did not have time, and crashed into the bow of a barge loaded with plaster
Prosecutors have now started an investigation into whether any safety regulation violations may have caused the fatalities.
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The report for piracy and armed robberies against ships in Asia for May 2022, informing those 6 incidents of armed robbery were reported. No piracy incident was reported.
Of the six incidents, four incidents occurred on board ships while underway in the Singapore Strait (SS), one incident on board a ship while anchored at Jakarta Anchorage, Indonesia, and one incident on board a ship while underway in the Karimata Strait, Indonesia.
With the six incidents reported in May 2022, a total of 39 incidents of armed robbery against ships were reported in Asia during the period of January-May 2022.
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Earlier in June, robbers stole 20 containers of gold and silver ore, TVs and electronics from a container storage yard in Manzanillo, Mexico as authorities in Colima informed.
The theft has led to calls to improve security from the merchants who use Mexico’s biggest container port to handle their wares. Commenting more about the theft, local media noted that a group of 9-15 well-armed criminals entered a privately-operated container storage yard on Calle Algodones.
Upon entering, the team reportedly detained the guards, before finding and removing 20 shipping containers of precious metal ore and electronics. To do that, they used forklifts to hoist the containers onto chassis and had the trucking capacity to make off with the haul. The total value of the theft has not been released, and the perpetrators have not been caught.