The Russian captain of the Solong cargo ship that crashed into a US-flagged tanker earlier this week in the North Sea appeared in an English court on Saturday on charges of gross negligence manslaughter.

Vladimir Motin, who was the master of the Portugal-flagged cargo vessel Solong, was charged with manslaughter.

Russian Vladimir Motin, the captain of the container ship that collided with an American tanker carrying jet fuel in the North Sea on Monday, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and gross negligence.

An international marine incident involving at least four countries, two large ships, and the death of a crew member is threatening environmental damage to the North Sea off England's east coast. British police have filed manslaughter and gross negligence charges against the Russian national who captained the Portuguese-flagged %environment_news_service% news environment latest on forests,

The Russian captain of the container ship that crashed into a US oil tanker in the North Sea has appeared in court, where he was remanded in custody. The Solong’s master, Vladimir Motin, 59, of Primorsky, St Petersburg, in Russia, appeared at Hull Magistrates’ Court on Saturday morning charged with gross negligence manslaughter.

Vladimir Motin, the Russian captain of the Portuguese-flagged container ship Solong, faces serious charges following a recent crash with a U.S. tanker. British police have charged him with gross negligence and manslaughter.

Motin was the master of the Ernst Russ-operated 804-teu Solong (built 2005) that collided with a Stena Bulk tanker on Monday off the northeast English coast. UK prosecutors named the seafarer who died in the collision as Mark Angelo Pernia, a Filipino crew member on the Portuguese-flagged Solong.

Portuguese-flagged cargo vessel Solong collided with US-flagged oil tanker Stena Immaculate off the coast of East Yorkshire

Vladimir Motin, Russian captain of the container ship Solong, appeared in court charged with gross negligence manslaughter after a collision with the Stena Immaculate tanker off Britain's coast. The crash resulted in the death of crew member Mark Angelo Pernia and a significant jet fuel spill.

The captain of a container ship that crashed into a U.S. tanker earlier this week off Britain's east coast appeared in an English court on Saturday charged with gross negligence manslaughter. Russian national Vladimir Motin,