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Juan Sanhueza, 58, a lookout of the 'Cobra', was found dead in the Bosques de Quiñenco area of Coronel on the morning of April 10. He had been missing since April 4. The discovery was made during the search led by the PDI's Homicide Squad, following a complaint filed by the crew member's family. The man was considered a key witness in the investigation into the sinking of the boat "Bruma," which still leaves seven fishermen missing. The head of the Concepción Homicide Squad, Enrique Guzmán, explained that during the investigation, they were able to "obtain this location of criminal interest, so detailed investigations were carried out with this specialized equipment, which finally allowed to locate a person. "It is part of the examination and forensic process to be able to categorically establish the date of death, which would correspond more or less to the period of disappearance," The Biobío regional prosecutor, Marcela Cartagena, reported that the identity of the body was confirmed by the Criminalistics Laboratory through a fingerprint examination. Third party involvement was ruled out and a suicide presumed. Sanhueza, who was serving as a lookout the night before the sinking of the "Bruma," disappeared after attending a psychological support session organized by the company Blumar. He was later scheduled to appear before the Investigative Police (PDI), but decided to travel on his own instead of using the company's transportation and missed the summons. Sanhueza's last record indicates that he boarded a Ruta del Mar bus, where, according to the driver, he displayed nervous behaviour and changed seats several times. He got off at Vega Monumental, and his whereabouts have not been known since. The widow had told prosecutor Hugo Cuevas that Sanhueza intended to cooperate with the investigation and testify. Report with photos: https://www.adnradio.cl/2025/04/10/fiscalia-confirma-que-cadaver-encontrado-en-coronel-corresponde-a-juan-sanhueza-testigo-clave-del-barco-cobra/

ENCHANTED PRINCESS, the fifth in a line of six Royal Class ships built for Princess Cruises, was floated out on 6 August at Fincantieri’s shipyard in Monfalcone.

On August 1, ABP announced new customers for the Port of Immingham this week: The port welcomed the first vessel in a new contract with customers Top Blue and The Fuel Trading Company. The new deal is expected to bring an extra 30,000 tonnes per year through the Port of Immingham – the largest Port by tonnage in the UK. The cargo being delivered is Prilled Urea which is a key part of the mixture for the AdBlue market.

On the morning of April 11, 2025, the Estonian Navy detained the 'Kiwala', a tanker from Russia's "shadow fleet" that exports Russian crude oil and oil products to third countries, en route from Sikka to the Russian port Ust-Luga. Estonia began preparing for the operation on the evening of April 10, and the operation itself began on April 11 at 3 a.m. At 4:19 a.m., the tanker entered Estonian waters. The vessel is now east of Aegna Island, with two warships alongside it. The vessel was under sanctions in connection with its previous activities in the European Union and was heading to Ust-Luga. The tanker had no flag, and such vessels are not allowed to move. During the detention, the technical condition of the vessel and the crew's documents were checked. A helicopter was involved in the operation. There were 24 people on board the tanker. The captain of the vessel is a Chinese national, who is cooperating with the investigation. Recently, the vessel has been flying the flag of Djibouti. The tanker was anchored in pos. 59° 35' N 024° 49' E. Report with photos: https://censor.net/en/photonews/3546274/russian-shadow-fleet-tanker-kiwala-detained-in-estonia

Beached at Aliaga 10.04.25

Expansion works on the Takoradi Port have started with the construction of a multipurpose on-dock Atlantic Container Terminal. The project will see the port basin being dredged to create a 16-metre depth and land reclamation for the building of five new berths to hold bigger capacity vessels. A visit to the Takoradi Port in the Western Region revealed that the contractors were casting the foundation stones for the quay wall to herald the expansion project at the port. The project, being developed by Ibistek Ghana Limited at a cost of $475 million, marks the first time a wholly owned Ghanaian firm has been engaged in port development in the country. The Atlantic terminal, which will be the major development in the history of the Takoradi port when completed, will have a cargo holding space of one million twenty-footer equivalent units (TEUs), an upscale from the average container traffic of about 55,000 TEUs a year.

Terminal operator APM Terminals (APMT) has released a video of the final three ship-to-shore (STS) cranes arriving at the Vado Gateway terminal, which it hopes will be the next major logistics hub for the Mediterranean and Europe. The Vado Gateway terminal is scheduled to open on December 12, 2019, and will be built with a 700-meter deep-sea berth specifically to handle the latest Ultra Large Container Ships (ULCS), as well as an automated gate and stacking area. APMT announced the inauguration date in July 2019 – a story PTI reported on at the time. Located in the Vado Ligure Port Complex in the northwest of the country, it will be the first semi-automated port in Italy and be integrated with an already existing reefer terminal.

The 'Mersin Express', which had been seized in Livorno with 2,000 kilos of cocaine, unloaded 1,400 tons of bananas and pineapple in Vigo. The ship which transported the cargo from Ecuador, made its usual stop in the port to unload refrigerated containers. Most of the product arriving in Galicia was banana, the most commonly used by drug trafficking groups to conceal drugs. The ship that operates the regular route between South America and Europe through the Port of Vigo, unloaded approximately 1,400 tons of fruit on its last visit to the Guixar dock on March 12, mostly bananas but also pineapple. The ship was carrying at least 2,000 kilos of cocaine, which were seized on March 22, 2025, when the vessel made a stopover in the port of Livorno by officials from the local customs anti-fraud unit and financiers of the Livorno group. The huge amount of drugs, divided into 1,800 loaves of bread, was hidden in a container of cocoa powder and loaded onto the ship at the port of Guayaquil. The ship was released again on March 24 en route to Barcelona.

The captain of the 'Hong Tai 58' has been charged with severing an undersea telecommunications cable off the coast of Taiwan, near the Taiwanese archipelago of Penghu, last February, by the Taiwanese prosecutors. Captain Wang, has been detained in Taiwan since the incident, which occurred in the strategic and sensitive waters between Taiwan and China. The ship had eight Chinese nationals on board and was financed by China, the Coast Guard said. The vessel, which was spotted about 11 kilometres northwest of the Jiangjun fishing port, was intercepted by the Coast Guard after the cable linking Penghu to Taiwan was severed. Mr. Wang was accused of "destroying submarine cable-related facilities. The captain instructed the crew to drop anchor (...) with the intention of destroying the submarine cable. He also steered the vessel in a zigzag pattern over the cable by using the cargo ship's anchor to cut the cable, which damaged the submarine cable and affected communications between Taiwan and Penghu, according to the prosecutors. Mr. Wang faces a maximum prison sentence of seven years. Taiwan is connected by 14 international submarine cables and 10 domestic cables, which are of great strategic importance for ensuring telecommunications.

Icebreaker assistance and ice restrictions for ships entering the basin of Section No.1 at the Port of Sabetta, Yamal and access channel are canceled as of 00:00 Moscow time, August 6. The corresponding order was signed by the Port Harbourmaster Nikolay Nesterov. The order says that there is a possibility of separately floating ice floes, therefore masters of ships sailing in this water area of the Port of Sabetta and on approaches to the port are advised to exercise caution. Arctic Port of Sabetta is built on the western shore of the Gulf of Ob (Kara Sea) for transshipment of hydrocarbons from the South-Tambey gas condensate field on the Yamal peninsula to the Western Europe, South America and APR countries under Yamal LNG project. The project envisages the construction of an LNG plant capable of producing 16.5 million metric tonnes of LNG and 1.35 million tonnes of gas condensate annually

The Government of Maharashtra, India, India has named the Virgin Hyperloop One – DP World Consortium as Original Project Proponent (OPP) for the Pune-Mumbai Hyperloop Project, making it the first hyperloop project in the world. In a statement, Virgin Hyperloop One described it as a “landmark announcement” for the building of the Mumbai-Pune hyperloop transportation system.