The Canadian coast guard has evacuated 16 people from a burning container ship that is expelling toxic gas off Canada's Pacific coast, but there is "no safety risk" to those on shore, authorities said Sunday.
Egypt's Suez Canal Authority (SCA) agreed with a Chinese shipbuilder to build five tugboats and the contract will be signed very soon, SCA Chairman Osama Rabie told Xinhua.
Russia's Onega ship sank in the Barents Sea near the Novaya Zemlya archipelago with 19 people on board, of whom two were saved, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said on Monday.
South China's Hainan Province has evacuated more than 40,000 people as
the eighth typhoon of 2015, Kujira, is expected to land in southern
China on Monday night.
China's National Meteorological Center issued on Sunday afternoon a blue
alert, the lowest level in its four-tier warning system, for Typhoon
Kujira.Typhoon Kujira, the eighth typhoon in 2015 and the first one to
hit China, was formed in the South China Sea on Sunday morning, and
moving northward at a speed of about 10 kilometers per hour.
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian tanker carrying nearly 7.5 million litres of petrol has gone missing with 22 crew members on board in the waters off southern Johor state's east coast.
Rescuers extended their search scope to some 1,300 kilometers along the
Yangtze River with hopes to find over 40 people who are still
unaccounted for after a Chinese passenger ship capsized on Monday night.
The search and rescue team started to right the capsized cruise ship on the Yangtze River at 8 pm Thursday, according to the Ministry of Transport (MOT).
Rescue workers are cutting into the hull of a cruise ship that capsized
late on Monday, in an escalated effort to find survivors from more than
400 people believed to have been trapped inside.
A small and fast-moving tornado hit the area where a Chinese cruise ship capsized leaving more than 400 missing, weather officials said, possibly shedding light on the disaster's cause.
251 out of more than 470 passengers of the Norman Atlantic passenger
ferry, which caught fire Sunday as it was sailing from Greece to Italy,
have been rescued and 267 are still on board, the Italian Navy stated
Monday. "251 people have been saved, 227 are still on board," the Italian Navy said on its official Twitter page.