Ferry

Eleven people were injured when a passenger ferry hit a harbor wall at the port of Igoumenitsa, in northwestern Greece, while the vessel was in the process of docking on Wednesday morning.

The injured, including six pupils on a school excursion, were taken to Igoumenitsa health center for first-aid treatment but there were no reports of any serious injuries.

A seven-story ferry, dubbed Turkey?s biggest, was launched April 27 into Lake Van with an eye handling some of the significant trade route between Turkey and Iran.

A seven-story ferry, dubbed Turkey?s biggest, was launched April 27 into Lake Van with an eye handling some of the significant trade route between Turkey and Iran.

Passenger ferries will remain tied up at Greece's ports on Friday, May 1, preventing thousands of Labor Day travelers from reaching their destinations, as the PNO union of ferry workers on Tuesday declared it a strike day.

More than 100 relatives of victims of South Korea's Sewol ferry disaster tearfully cast flowers into the sea April 15 at an emotional memorial event on the eve of the tragedy's first anniversary.
      

The Vitsentzos Kornaros passenger ferry, which had run aground near the port of Kasos last Wednesday, left the southeastern Aegean island?s port in the early hours of Saturday after another vessel helped to free it late on Friday.

Italian sources from the prosecutor's office in Bari found that one of the two charred bodies found on the ship could belong to a 60-year-old missing truck driver following the disastrous Norman Atlantic shipwreck. The second body possibly belongs to an undocumented migrant whose name was not on the passenger list. Official autopsy results are still pending.

The death toll in a ferry tragedy in central Bangladesh hit 78 on Feb. 25, after rescuers recovered more bodies floating kilometres downstream from the site of Sunday's accident, officials said.
      

The Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality has begun the construction of 10 disabled-friendly, high-technology ferries, which it hopes to unveil before the general elections in June.

Melina II ferry is adrift at the sea region of Rinia islet near Mykonos under adverse weather conditions, due to engine failure.

According to the Coast Guard, the ferry was not carrying any passengers and was anchored in the area.