El Faro
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Will pigs fly before the Jones Act changes?
It is true that US law requires that a ship, permitted to trade coastwise, must be built in a US…
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11,000 sign petition to up the search for the missing El Faro
A petition to get the federal government to up its search for the missing boxship has already got more than…
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NTSB reveals more El Faro details
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in the US released a more in depth, second report into the sinking of…
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El Faro owners hit with another lawsuit
The shipowner of the has been hit by another lawsuit. The wife of a missing crewmember – third-mate, Jeremie Riehm…
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Salvors contracted to find El Faro
Salvors have been contacted to try and locate the 40-year-ol El Faro boxship which authorities presumed sank near the Bahamas…
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El Faro owners hit with $100m lawsuit
The first of what could be a series of crippling lawsuits against the owners of the missing El Faro boxship…
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Former El Faro seafarers hit out at ship’s structural problems
Three former crew members of El Faro, a US-flagged ship that authorities believe sank off the Bahamas during Hurricane Joaquin,…
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The El Faro blame game begins
It is said that the struggle to improve on safety at sea “progresses from sinking to sinking”. It is likely…
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Search for El Faro called off
The US Coast Guard (USCG) is to call off the search for survivors from El Faro, the Tote Maritime containership…
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El Faro’s captain had a plan to avoid Hurricane Joaquin
Executives from Tote Maritime say the captain of the missing containership El Faro had a “sound plan” to navigate around…
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40-year-old El Faro suffered mechanical failure as Hurricane Joaquin approached
The head of the shipping line that operated the ill fated El Faro has said the 40-year-old ship suffered mechanical…
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Missing vessel reported sunk, search for survivors continues
El Faro, the missing containership hit in the Caribbean by Hurricane Joaquin, has been presumed sunk by the US Coast…
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More debris found linked to missing US ship
Search and rescue teams have found further evidence of the missing El Faro boxship, which has not been seen since…
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Search continues for missing boxship
Search teams spread across the Atlantic over the weekend desperately trying to find the El Faro containership that was caught…
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