1.   The company that owns his ferry is going bankrupt, Bindics said, because most of its income is from Danube traffic.

2.   Others were saved by life boats and life jackets prepared by the crew, said Raymundo Sencil of Lapu Lapu Shipping Lines, which owns the ferry.

3.   He said the government would hire a foreign consultant to ensure an unbiased investigation of the disaster, since the company that owned the ferry is state-owned.

4.   Sea Malta, local agents for General National Maritime Transport Company Limited of Libya, which owns the ferries, has declined to comment on the situation.

5.   The company that owns the ferry said it was rammed.

6.   The general manager of Minoan Lines, the parent corporation of Minoan Flying Dolphins which owned the ferry, committed suicide two months after the sinking.

7.   The Shanniland company, which owns the ferry, said all the passengers were safe.

8.   Toivo Ninnas, director general of the state-owned Estonia Shipping Company which part owned the ferry, offered his resignation Friday, government officials said.

9.   The ferry was owned by the state owned company River, Lake and Crossing Transportation Services.

10.   The ferry is owned by the Belgian company Oostend, which is represented in Britain by Sally Lines.