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Beached at Alang 10.04.25

arrived Alang anchorage 10.04.25

Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) and the City of Dubrovnik have partnered to introduce sustainable tourism management practices that will preserve the Croatian city’s cultural heritage. CLIA president and CEO Kelly Craighead and Dubrovnik’s Mayor Mato Franković signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU), which outlines plans to make Dubrovnik a model of sustainable tourism for the Adriatic region. All plans focus on investment, collaboration and best practices that will benefit both Dubrovnik’s residents and visitors. “Today’s agreement validates the work we have already done with Mayor Franković and formalises the cruise industry’s continued commitment to the City of Dubrovnik and its people,” said Craighead.

Congestion at Cambodia’s top port is creating supply chain disruptions. In a note to clients German containerline Hapag-Lloyd noted that terminal productivity at Sihanoukville port has deteriorated due to port and yard congestion. Feeder services and turnaround times are affected and feeder space is tight. In an effort for medium term improvement of this situation, the port is building an extended yard for additional storage space. “Before the new container yard is completed, port congestion may persist,” Hapag-Lloyd warned.

Seven years after the 'Helge Ingstad' sank in the Hjelte Fjord, the Norwegian state has sued the Spanish shipbuilder Navantia for 13.3 billion Norwegian Crowns. The Ministry of Defense's amount is based on the price of the new frigate, the lifting of the ship, and a number of deductions.The claim of the Norwegian government attorney is that a safety-critical design defect contributed to the sinking off Øygarden in 2018. The lawsuit points out that the propeller shafts in the ship were hollow, which allowed water to flow between watertight sections of the ship. Similar Spanish frigates built by Navantia have a different, watertight construction. The question is whether the frigate would have been salvaged with the damage it sustained in the collision if the listed construction defects were disregarded, the court ruling stated. The Spanish shipyard has objected that the design error was discovered before the accident, and that the Armed Forces allowed sailing with several known deviations on the frigate, which were not corrected. The shipyard pointed to systematic failure in routines and systems in the Armed Forces and Defense Material. Attorney Ole Kristian Rigland at the Government Attorney's Office stated that the goal was to reach an agreement through mediation. Alternatively, the solution will only come when the case is heard by the district court in the fall.

The 'Viking Vili' suffered problems with the steering en route from Rotterdam to Amsterdam, and ran aground on April 10, 2025 at 8.45 p.m. on the river Lek next to the small marina at Nieuwegein. After about one hour the ship refloated again and was able to resume the cruise. It entered the Prinses Beatrix Locks after a brief stop on the Lek Canal on the evening, and then proceeded to the port of destination, where it berthed on April 11 at 5 a.m. UTC. Photo: https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/3826028?navList=gallery&category=39&page=1&viewType=normal&sortBy=newest

The Tanger Med port has emerged as the biggest port in Africa in terms of container capacity, surpassing Africa’s bigger ports like Durban (South Africa) and Mombasa (Kenya). The Tanger Med port now connects Morocco to 77 countries and 186 ports around the world. The Tanger Med II has two new container terminals – TC3 and TC4 – with an additional 6 million container capacity. The TC3, which is operated by Morocco’s main port operator Marsa Maroc, has a capacity of 1 million TEUs (twenty foot equivalent units). The TC4, which is operated by the Netherlands-based APM Terminals, has a capacity of 5 million TEUs. According to the Tanger Med Port Authority, with its new terminals, Tanger Med port will have a capacity of processing 9 million containers, 7 million passengers, 1 million vehicles and 700,000 trucks. Thanks to its extensions, Tanger Med port has now become the largest port in the Mediterranean region, surpassing some of the region’s top ports like Algeciras (Spain), Valencia (Spain) and Gioia (Italy). The port is located 40 kilometers east of the Moroccan town of Tangier, which is a gateway to both Europe and Africa. “Our aim is to develop an effective port platform integrated with transshipment activities, imports and exports,” Tanger Med Port Authority said on its website. The Tanger Med port has become vital for Morocco’s economy as it handled 317 billion Moroccan dirhams (US$33.14 billion) worth of exports and imports in 2018. It processed an overall tonnage of 52.24 tonnes last year.

French oil and gas giant Total SA has taken a 50 per cent stake in Dhamra LNG Terminal Pvt Ltd (DLTPL), a unit of Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd (APSEZ), which is constructing a 12 million tonne per annum (mtpa) LNG regasification terminal at its port located at Dhamra in Odisha’s Bhadrak district.

Beached at Gadani 11.04.25

On April 11 at around 9 a.m. the 'Victoria L' was being towed into the port of Amsterdam by the tugs 'Multratug 36' (IMO: 9985289 ) and 'Svitzer Taurus' (IMO: 9960409) as stering tug with the ship's status as 'Restricted Movement'. It had reached the locks of IJmiden at around 4 a.m. , one and a half days after the engine room fire, which had started on April 9 at 1:11 p.m. approximately 56 kilometres from the coast, which had initially seemed to have been extinguished by the crew on board, but then flared up again. The KNRM Scheveningen, at the request of the Coastguard, had been mainly on standby for the safety of the MIRG team. After the situation was under control they sailed back to the rescue station with the MIRG team on board, where they arrived at around 7:45 p.m. The ship was berthed at the Damen Shiprepair Yard for inspections and repairs. Reports with photos: https://www.knrm.nl/nieuws/knrm-reddingstation-hoek-van-holland/prio-1-vaartuig-brand-explosie https://www.tugspotters.com/app/content/2025/04/multratug-26-met-victria-l-aangekomen-te-amsterdam/

Phase one of the new Jurong Port Tank Terminals (JPTT) was officially opened on Monday (July 29), with Senior Minister of State for Trade and Industry Chee Hong Tat saying it will allow Singapore to strengthen its position as one of the world’s top bunkering ports for low-sulphur fuels. The $200 million, 16ha petrochemical terminal is a joint venture between port operator Jurong Port and German firm Oiltanking with 252,000 cubic m of clean petroleum storage capacity. From January next year, the International Maritime Organisation will prohibit ships from using fuels containing more than 0.5 per cent sulphur.

Moves are afoot for a new multi-billion-rand liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage and regasification terminal to be established at the port of Richards Bay by 2024, but state-owned Transnet wants the private sector to be the main investor and operator of the facility. The plan was revealed on Tuesday as Transnet announced the signing of a cost-sharing agreement with the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) to jointly fund a feasibility study into the terminal project. The IFC has committed $2 million (around R28 million) as part of the cost-sharing agreement. The move comes as Transnet looks to bolster South Africa’s LNG infrastructure, both at the country’s ports and within its pipelines business.