Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 08/2025
Attacks reverse improving bulker stats
Recent attacks on bulk carriers by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in the Red Sea have reversed the dry bulk sector’s steadily improving safety statistics. In the early days of July, two Greek-owned bulkers – a panamax, Magic Seas , and a handysize, Eternity C – were hit by rocket-propelled grenades, drones, missiles and small arms fire, before sinking. Four seafarers died and eight are still unaccounted for at the time of writing. The attacks came just a few days after the International Association of Dry Cargo Shipowners (Intercargo) had revealed latest safety statistics for the dry bulk sector....