Three Chinese sailors were rescued after their cargo vessel ran aground near Ha Mai island, Ngoc Vung commune, Van Don district, the northern province of Quang Ninh, the local border guard station said on January 16.

The largest-ever made-in-Vietnam bulk carrier was recently launched by Nam Trieu Shipbuilding Company Limited in the northern port city of Hai Phong.

A Philippine sailor in distress in waters off the coast of the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau was rescued at night on May 11.

ANNOU MAX cargo ship (Marshall Islands nationality) weights over 176,000 tonnes anchored at Hon Net port, Quang Ninh province

Indonesian rescuers said on November 25 that they are searching for seven sailors of a cargo ship that sank in waters off Bali resort island.

The Regional Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Centre No. 3 on December 9 took a foreign sailor seriously injured on board a Panama-flagged cargo ship off Vietnam’s territorial waters to hospital for treatment.

The body of the last sailor aboard the Hai Thanh 26-BLC cargo ship that sank off the coast of southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau province was found on April 1.

The Vietnam Maritime Search and Rescue Co-ordination Centre is mobilising efforts and has called for support from all vessels to participate in the search for nine missing crewmen.

A Vietnamese merchant ship was saved from robbery or kidnapping recently thanks to the Malaysian Eastern Sabah Security Command (Esscom), according to the country’s Bernama News Agency. ​

Relevant agencies have repatriated 16 Vietnamese nationals aboard a cargo ship seized in the Philippines, while also working to return 15 fishermen who violated the waters of Papua New Guinea.

The Philippine coast guard on March 6 said it was closely watching a freighter of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and its 21 crew members.

More than 200 people took part in an exercise to deal with oil spill and fires on Dong Nai River, the southern province of Dong Nai, on December 31.