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.

The Russian captain of the cargo ship Solong, Vladimir Motin, appeared in a UK court charged with 'gross negligence manslaughter' after a collision with a US tanker resulted in the presumed death of a crew member.

The Russian captain of a ship involved in the North Sea crash has appeared in court. Vladimir Motin, 59, of Primorsky, St Petersburg, was remanded into custody after appearing at Hull Magistrates' Court on Saturday. He has been charged with gross negligence 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.

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.

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

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,

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.