Tag: Ferry

Europe cold snap claims 250 lives, sends ferry aground

Hundreds of people were plucked to safety Saturday after a ferry caught in a snow storm ran aground off Italy, as a vicious cold...

Zanzibar ferry death toll could rise sharply

The death toll from Tanzania’s ferry disaster could significantly rise after it emerged there were more than 1,000 passengers aboard the vessel when it...

China ferry accident kills at least 11 students

A river ferry overloaded with primary and secondary school students sank in China's Hunan province, killing at least 11 children, the official Xinhua news...

7 dead as ferry sinks in Indonesia

Seven people were killed and several others were believed to be missing after a ferry sank in Indonesia on Saturday, an official said. The ferry...

Sri Lanka, India to relaunch ferry service after three decades

COLOMBO - India and Sri Lanka on Friday signed an agreement to restart sea ferry services shut down for nearly 30 years, the latest sign of resurgent economic ties since the end of Sri Lanka's quarter-century civil war.
The two nations gave no immediate timeframe, but said the service should start shortly.
"Sea passenger transportation between India and Sri Lanka is being established...to speedily restore the traditional links between the two countries," a joint statement