{"id":10618,"date":"2025-11-11T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=10618"},"modified":"2025-11-11T12:30:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T04:30:31","slug":"ferry-travelling-from-batam-to-singapore-collides-with-tanker-all-passengers-and-crew-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=10618","title":{"rendered":"Ferry travelling from Batam to Singapore collides with tanker; all passengers and crew safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SINGAPORE: A passenger ferry travelling from Batam to Singapore collided with a tanker off the Southern Islands on Monday (Nov 10).<\/p>\n<p>All 165 passengers and seven crew members on the ferry safely disembarked at the ferry terminal at HarbourFront Centre, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The collision between the Singapore-flagged ferry and the Marshall Islands-registered tanker La Digue occurred at about 5pm while the ferry was en route to HarbourFront Centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MPA said it immediately deployed a patrol craft to guide the ferry to Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>The ferry, named Horizon 9, sustained some damage to its bow above the waterline, but remained fully operational during its journey back to Singapore, said MPA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tanker did not report any damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were no reports of injury to passengers and crew, or pollution arising from the incident. There was also no impact to navigational traffic or port operations,&#8221; added MPA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/ferry-collision-tanker-passengers-crew-safe-mpa-5459431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: A passenger ferry travelling from Batam to Singapore collided with a tanker off the Southern Islands on Monday (Nov 10). All 165 passengers and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--Pocjw1nS--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2025\/11\/11\/2-panel-composite-1.jpg?itok=v2tBImQz","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8989,8990,4814,7124,8992,1086,22,8991,6038],"class_list":["post-10618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-batam","tag-collides","tag-crew","tag-ferry","tag-passengers","tag-safe","tag-singapore","tag-tanker","tag-travelling","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}