Stellar Daisy
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Asia
Polaris fined $12,426 for Stellar Daisy sinking, families vow to fight on
The families of the victims of the Stellar Daisy disaster are not giving up in their pursuit of justice. Despite the…
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Stellar Daisy’s sister ships sent for demo
Two months ahead of the third anniversary since the sinking of the Stellar Daisy with the loss of 22 lives,…
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750 days after dramatic sinking, report finally published into Stellar Daisy’s hull failure
It’s taken fully 750 days but finally over the Easter weekend the Marshall Islands flag issued its report into the…
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Americas
Stellar Daisy located
The has been located six hundred and eighty-eight days after the giant VLOC sank in the south Atlantic, spurring hope…
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One charged over Stellar Daisy sinking
A court in South Korea yesterday granted the arrest warrant for the former head of maritime affairs at Polaris Shipping,…
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Arrest warrants sought for Polaris and KR officials over Stellar Daisy sinking
Nearly 22 months after the tragic sinking of the Stellar Daisy VLOC arrest warrants have been sought by the Busan…
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Americas
Families of Stellar Daisy crew go after the CEO of Vale
The bereaved families of the 22 dead crew from the sunken Stellar Daisy have hit out at Vale, the world’s…
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Korean Register HQ raided as Stellar Daisy investigation heats up
The Busan headquarters of class society Korean Register (KR) were raided yesterday in the ongoing investigation into the sinking of…
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Call to inspect all converted ore carriers
The families of the missing crew of the sunken have called for all converted ore carriers in South Korea to…
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Stellar Daisy: We are back to square one
Captain Manjit Handa, a bulk carrier master, reflects on the tragic sinking of the Korean ore carrier. The loss of…
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Unsafe at any draft – Part two
On March 31, in fine weather, with everything onboard as routine as could be, the Stellar Daisy began to list,…
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Asia
Polaris reaches compensation agreement with bereaved families as Stellar Daisy search ends
South Korea’s Polaris Shipping has fixed a compensation agreement with the families of most of the missing crew from the…
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Cracks surface on another Polaris VLOC
Another ore carrier belonging to under pressure Polaris Shipping from South Korea has a couple of cracks on its deck.…
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Americas
Polaris restarts hunt for sunken Stellar Daisy
The search for the missing Stellar Daisy VLOC is to restart tomorrow after a number of days of inactivity due…
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Lloyd’s Register drafted in to assist urgent Polaris fleet inspection
British class society Lloyd’s Register has been drafted in to assist in Polaris Shipping’s urgent fleet check in the wake…
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IACS ‘anxious’ about Stellar Daisy loss
The head of the International Association of Classification Societies says he’s ready to learn from any defects or mistakes made…
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‘Rolling like I’m inside a washing machine’: Terrifying account of the sinking of the Stellar Daisy
The two survivors of the sinking have related how the ore carrier sank very rapidly in a report seen by…
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Another defect found on a Polaris VLOC
The hunt for the has been plunged into chaos with another converted VLOC that had been leading the search and…
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Could Stellar Daisy spark an end to the converted VLOC?
Could a significant chunk of the global dry bulk fleet be set for accelerated scrapping? With a third elderly Polaris…
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South Korea’s foreign minister vows to mobilise all resources to track down missing Stellar Daisy
South Korea’s foreign minister visited the headquarters of Polaris Shipping in Busan yesterday and vowed to up resources in the…
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