Hong Kong authorities have filed 39 counts of manslaughter against the two boat captains whose vessels collided in the city's worst maritime disaster in decades. The charges police filed Wednesday are for every death in the Oct. 1 crash. Five other crew members were arrested after the accident. They have been ordered to report back to court later. The Lamma IV boat was taking power company staff and their families to see holiday fireworks when it collided with a commuter ferry, the Sea Smooth, near Lamma Island.

The new mega container terminal now under construction at DP World flagship Jebel Ali Port has been a major attraction at Sea Asia 2013, the 3-day cornerstone event of Singapore's Maritime Week, with visitors including Singapore's Minister of Transport, Lui Tuck Yew. DP World is participating in the international conference and exhibition, which opened on Tuesday, with a prominent pavilion showcasing the company and the UAE. Lui showed keen interest in a scale model of Jebel Ali Port's 4 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent container units) Container Terminal 3, currently under

Two Hong Kong boat captains appeared in court Thursday accused of manslaughter over a ferry collision last year that claimed 39 lives in the city's worst maritime disaster in decades. Chow Chi-wai, 56, and Lai Sai-ming, 55, were charged with 39 counts of manslaughter over the incident, which generated shock in the Asian financial hub, one of the world's busiest ports, that prides itself on its safety record.

Talks between contractors for a Hong Kong port operator owned by tycoon Li Ka-shing and striking workers failed to resolve a wage dispute Wednesday, with no end in sight to the two-week-long protest. As many as 400 workers from Hongkong International Terminals (HIT) have been camping at the container port to seek a pay rise amid soaring costs in the city, one of the world's busiest container ports. The workers' representatives met the contractors for the first time Wednesday at a meeting mediated by the government's labour department but it failed to reach any consensus.