1.   The cargo was aboard the Japanese freighter Akatsuki Maru, whose precise route was kept secret by the Japanese government.

2.   Australia mandated high-seas ballast exchange requirements after a Japanese freighter dumped a form of red tide in an Australian harbor.

3.   U.S. survivors of an attack on a Japanese freighter will gather at a Confederate prison site to honor the hundreds who died.

4.   -- A Russian freighter crashed into a Japanese freighter in waters off northern Japan but no one was injured.

5.   A Russian freighter crashed into a Japanese freighter in waters off northern Japan Saturday morning but no one was injured, Maritime Safety Agency officials said.

6.   Three ships arrived Friday, including a Japanese freighter carrying bananas from the Philippines.