Cargo ships

Illustration. BIRN/Igor Vujcic

Major players in global shipping, the Laskaridis brothers are known in Greece for their initiatives to clean the seas of rubbish and scrap single-use plastics.

The Greek Embassy said the ship was sailing in Greek territorial waters

A 40-meter-long vessel sank off the coast of southern Crete to a depth of at least 1,000 meters on Saturday.

The Malpas vessel was allegedly carrying what authorities believe was a suspicious cargo.

Its five crew members - all Syrian nationals - were rescued by port authorities and were reportedly in good health.

The Foreign Ministry has no official information on Bulgarian citizens, who were aboard the cargo ship, which was seized in Iran on Tuesday.

This was announced by the spokesperson of the ministry Betina Zhoteva in an interview for private NOVA TV on Wednesday.