For anyone other than those on the receiving end of containership freight rates, the dawn of each new day brings an absence of good news in this increasingly hazardous world.
![Capsized Korean tanker off Japan]( "Capsized Korean tanker off Japan")
Eight crew are reported dead with a further two still missing following the capsizing of a South Korean chemical tanker off the coast of Japan at around 7am local time on 20 March.
![YM Witness next to destroyed quay crane in Turksih port]( "YM Witness next to destroyed quay crane in Turksih port")
Following the accident involving the YM Witness which demolished several cranes in the Port of Evyap the Taiwanese line says there were no injuries or pollution as a result.
![YM Witness next to destroyed quay crane in Turksih port]( "YM Witness next to destroyed quay crane in Turksih port")
Taiwan-based Yang Ming Marine Transportation’s vessel YM Witness collided with the quay In the Turkish Port Evyap at the weekend toppling three quay cranes.
Houthi rebels in Yemen say they will expand the range of their attacks on shipping to cover across the Indian Ocean to South Africa and the Cape of Good Hope.
Search and rescue operations are ongoing for a seafarer missing from a bulk carrier in Singapore waters since the early hours of 15 March.
Increasing attacks on commercial shipping navigating the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden have virtually tripled the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) costs as most vessels have opted to divert around the Cape of Good Hope.
All 11 crew were rescued from a Vietnamese general cargo vessel that sank in Southeast Asian waters on 10 March.
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The US military says some 28 drones were downed in less than five hours on 9 March fired by Houthi rebels in Yemen at vessels in the Red Sea.
