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Disabled ship towed to Valletta

The 'Starvip', ballasting enroute from Jors Lasfar via Gibraltar, lost power in the Ionian Sea on June 29, 2025 (Lat. 36.4283 Lng. 7.3900) and went adrift. The ship was taken in tow by the tug 'Protug 75' (IMO: 9559781) on June 30 en route to Valletta. The ship was handed over to the port tugs 'St. Angelo' and 'Wenzina' on July 1 off the Grand Harbour of Malta and safely berthed at dock 2, where it remained stationary as of July 24.

STARVIP 9326495

Police and the Coast Guard are investigating the death of a ship's chief officer of the "Startramp" who was fatally injured Dec 5, 2010, night, when he fell into an empty cargo hold aboard the freighter, docked in Norfolk, South Philadelphia. The Croatian seaman was unhooking a container from a crane about 8:15 when he fell nearly 80 feet into the empty hold of the vessel, moored at a pier on the 2400 block of South Columbus Boulevard. He was pronounced dead at 9:12 p.m. at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.