Gavan said the
cargo ship was escorted to port by BRP Tubbataha.
A search and rescue operation is underway while the details of the foreign
cargo ship were not immediately available.
The NSD area is a busy port and there are other
cargo ships that are scheduled to arrive there, Marfil told the Inquirer in a telephone interview.
Thursday after the
cargo ship crashed into the flank of the fishing boat.
The small fishing boat, carrying nine crew members, sank in the early morning hours after colliding with a 2116-ton
cargo ship, radio network KBS reported.
The new
cargo ship is filled with 2.8 tons of food, fuel and supplies.
Shintaro Hirano and his son Yoshikuni, 49, were thrown into the sea after the 4.9-ton Hirashin Maru overturned following the collision with the 4,095-ton
cargo ship.
STRANDED: The
cargo ship yesterday after running aground off Cornwall; Pictures: APEX; LASHED: Waves pound the vessel
* Marauders attacked a refrigerated
cargo ship April 23, also in Guayaquil.
A blaze on board the
cargo ship Ever Decent was finally extinguished yesterday, nearly a week after it caught fire.
Batam, Indonesia - Six Filipino crewmen were missing Thursday after their
cargo ship collided with a chemical tanker and sank off western Indonesia, officials said.
He said after they were defeated and failed in their first attack, the pirates sought to hijack another foreign
cargo ship in the same region but the swift action of the Iranian warships killed their plot in the bud.
