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Carlos A. Gothong Lines, popularly known as CAGLI and formerly once known simply as Gothong Lines, is a cargo shipping company based in Cebu, Philippines.CAGLI was formerly a part of WG&A (William, Gothong, & Aboitiz), which served 23 major provincial ports throughout the Philippines and was the first domestic shipping company in the country to be certified by the International Safety ...
After months of reconnaissance by LTTE intelligence wing, the LTTE carried out a raid on the 12 April 1996, when the country was celebrating the Sinhalese New Year.The night before, the 7:40 pm the Command Operations Room of the Western Naval Area of SLNS Ranagala received an anonymous call stating that a merchant ship outside the Colombo harbour was being boarded by sea pirates.
On November 7, 1972, at 9:51 p.m. EST, three sections of the Sidney Lanier Bridge across the Brunswick River in Brunswick, Georgia, United States, collapsed after a cargo ship, the SS African Neptune, struck the bridge. The collapse affected roughly 450 feet (140 m) of the bridge and caused 24 people and ten motor vehicles to fall into the river.
On December 2, 2009 - M/V Wonderful Stars had a collision with a passenger-cargo vessel M/V Subic Bay 1 of the late Carlos A. Gothong Lines. The said vessel had gone sideways and sustained damages estimated to be within P600,000 to P700,000. [7] On August 15, 2015, MV Wonderful Stars caught fire in the port of Ormoc City.
2GO Travel or 2GO Sea Solutions, also known simply as 2GO, is a ferry company based in Manila, Philippines, the shipping arm of 2GO Group, and the only remaining passenger cargo ferry company operating to and from Manila to Visayas and Mindanao, with its hubs located in Pier 4 at the Manila North Harbor and Batangas International Port.
The Lady R is a Russian flagged roll-on/roll-off type cargo ship built in 2004 by the Türkiye Gemi Shipbuilding company in Istanbul, Turkey. [7] Prior to 2019, it was named the "Sloman Producer." [7] It has a typical draught of 4.4 meters, a length of 123 meters and a beam of 19 meters. The ship uses a 5760 kW MAN-B&W type engine. [7]
[7] The company experienced multiple marine disasters, including the 1987 sinking of the Doña Paz, [7] the sinking of the Doña Marilyn in 1988, [7] the sinking of the Princess of the Orient in 1998, and the 2008 sinking of the Princess of The Stars during the occurrence of Typhoon Fengshen (PAGASA name: Frank). In 2009, the PSACC adopted its ...
Additionally the operations of Swedish American Mexico Line were merged into those of the Swedish American Line in 1946, bringing five cargo-carrying ships to the fleet of SAL. [ 6 ] [ 9 ] On 18 July 1947 Swedish American Line bought back the USS John Ericsson from the US Navy, and restored her to her original name.