A seven-hour search and rescue operation recovered a body on Saturday believed to be that of a seafarer who went overboard from a gas carrier anchored off Margate, UK during storm Dennis.
A large crude oil tanker caught fire in the Persian Gulf west of the Strait of Hormuz, and rescue operations have evacuated the crew to safety.
The US Coast Guard (USCG) has suspended the search for three seafarers missing from a tugboat collision in the Mississippi on Sunday.
Three crew are missing following the collision of two tugs in the Mississippi that resulted in a sulphuric acid spill.
General Average has been declared on an 8,400 teu German containership Northern Jupiter that suffered an engine fire on 4 January in the Malacca Strait.