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On the evening of Nov 14, the Port Authority of Myrina was informed that the 'Prevelis', which had set sail with 55 passengers on board en route to the port of Lavrio, suffered a breakdown of the vehicle ramp. The ship returned to the port of Myrina, where it was inspected by the Local Ship Inspection Unit (TKEP). The Myrina Port Authority initially prohibited the sailing of ferry PREVELIS until the damage was repaired. Upon presentation of the relevant certificate, the ship sailed for the port of Lavrio

The 'Dali' has arrived at the Fuzhou Port on Nov 13 after a nearly two-month journey from Norfolk, Virginia. The vessel had already undergone some repairs and is to be repaired more extensively at the Fujian Huadong Shipyard in the Luoyuan Bay Port Area. The repair plans are including a complete replacement of the bow. It was challenging to bring the vessel properly into the port due to the extensive damage. The vessel has no functioning anchors, and much of the machinery, including the thrusters, was damaged in the accident. Meanwhile, the litigation against the vessel's owner and operator was still ongoing and expected to extend to mid-2026. The owner, Grace Ocean, and the operator, Synergy Marine, have invoked an 1800s admiralty law to limit their liabilities to $44 million, whereas authorities state that the admiralty law in question is obsolete and are seeking the remuneration of all damages incurred.

The Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft shipyard a which had been operating at a loss for some time, filed for self-administered insolvency on April 24. The goal of the shipyard’s filing was to permit it to start afresh. The future of Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft in the medium term was in building Ro-Ro ferries, according to the message delivered by the management at a workers meeting on Sunday April 26. The move is specifically designed to allow the company to start from fresh without existing contractual obligations to customers and suppliers. Though an administrator will be brought in from outside the company, the company management will continue to control the business which is a different process to bankruptcy in German law. Investor Lars Windhorst is prepared to put money into the business through his Tennor Holding investment vehicle. Tennor Holding took 100% control of the yard in 2019. He has said, however, that the money should not be used on loss making contracts. The former majority owner Siem Industries is interested in contracting 4 further Ro-Ro ferries from the yard. Siem recently took delivery of LIEKUT, the eighth of a series of vessels built by FSG for the company to charter out. FSG had been making significant losses for a number of years. The Siem group acquired the company for a token €1 back in November 2014 after severe liquidity problems. Those losses massively increased in recent years, however, with the yard losing an eye watering €111m in 2018. The hugely increased losses were due in part to delivery delays with Irish Ferries 'W.B. Yeats' and the subsequent penalty payments made to Irish Continental Group (ICG). The agreed contract price to build the 'W.B. Yeats' is understood to have left little to no margin for the yard in the first place.

The US Coast Guard medevaced a crewmember from a 600-foot tanker at anchorage approximately 15 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas, on April 19, 2020. Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders received a report of a 58-year-old man reportedly experiencing symptoms of an upper respiratory illness. Watchstanders consulted with the duty flight surgeon as well as local CDC and county health partners who recommended the medevac. Watchstanders launched a Coast Guard Station Galveston 45-foot Response Boat-Medium boat crew. The RB-M boat crew transferred the patient to awaiting emergency medical services personnel at Station Galveston who transported him to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

On Nov 13, 2024, the barge 'Raya Baru', loaded with a cargo of split stones, which was towed by the 'Luis Baru', has run aground in the southern waters of Kangean Island, under the jurisdiction of UPP Sapeken, Sumenep Regency. The ships had departed from the Private Terminal of PT. Bukit Sunur Wijaya in Banten en route to Tanjung Wangi Port, Banyuwangi, on Nov 1. On Nov 12 at around 4 p.m. LT, approximately eight miles from Kemirian Island near Kangean Island, the barge started tilting to port side at an angle of around 10°. It was suspected that there was a leak in the left hull, which caused the tilt to worsen, posing a risk of the barge capsizing. To prevent further potential danger, the captain of the tug decided to intentionally ground the barge in the waters near Kangean Island on Nov 13 at 5 p.m. LT. As of No 14, the barge remainedat the location, awaiting the arrival of diving technicians from Surabaya to conduct a further inspection of the leak.

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The chairman of the board of Grenaa Shipyard, Esben Møller, was deeply affected by the violent gas explosion on the dredger 'Grete Fighter', which injured three employees on April 23, 2020. The cause is still unknown. Shipyard chairman deeply affected by accide. "We have never experienced anything like it here, ”says Esben Møller. The accident happened shortly after lunch break when the employees were on their way back to the ship, which was in the shipyard in connection with a 5 year revision. On the way to the ship's tank system there was a huge explosion. Two men have reached the bottom of the ship, while the one closest to the exit was being helped out. Police and fire departments were alerted at 9.35 a.m., and shipyard and ship crews quickly reached the two at the bottom of the ship, which were most severely affected by the explosion, but were unable to rescue them. But they stayed with them until the fire department and the ambulance arrived. According to police, the three severely injured people who were flown to Rigshospitalet are a 31-year-old man from Norddjurs, a 53-year-old man from Syddjurs and a 50-year-old man from West Funen. "I don't know about their situation anymore, other than it's very serious," Esben Møller said. The accident is now being investigated by the police and the Labor Inspectorate. The 'Grete Fighter', which is owned by Peter Madsen Rederi, was in the yard for a five-year inspection. According to Grenaa Shipyard, on the ship various steel works were to be carried out, measurements of screw shaft and rudder, full service of auxiliary and main engine, dismantling of bottom and bilge valves and a full coating of bottom and bulwark. In addition, the old excavator had to be dismantled in favour of a new one.

One crew member of the USS 'Theodore Roosevelt' which was being anchored off Guam has died of a corona virus infection on April 14, 2020. The woman had been in intensive care but died of health complications. More than 550 crew members of the 5.000 crew members were tested positive. The ship has been largely evacuated during the recent days. Commander Brett Crozier had been fired as he wrote a letter expressing his concern about the crew situation and asked for help by the Navy.

On Nov 14, the 'Costa Diadema' requested the medical evacuation of a passenger. The ship was sailing south of Motril with winds of more than 30 knots. The SAR boat 'Salvarmar Spica' was tasked to take the patient off. The ships rendezvoused near Roquetas, where the boat went alingside on the port side, in the lee of the cruise ship. The passenger was disembarked along with a doctor and a nurse, and they were transferred to Almería.

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More than 1,000 sailors aboard the aircraft carrier 'Charles de Gaulle' have tested positive for COVID-19, a number that could continue to surge as the crew awaits approximately 930 more test results. The outbreak onboard the French navy’s flagship forced leadership to call off the remaining two weeks of the carrier’s scheduled deployment to the North Atlantic. The ship, which carries a crew of nearly 1,800, pulled into port last week at Toulon Naval Base in southern France. In all, 1,081 crew members from the Charles de Gaulle naval group have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. That total comes almost entirely from the carrier, and includes at least two U.S. sailors who were assigned to the ship as part of the U.S. Navy’s Personnel Exchange Program. The American sailors have since been removed from the ship and were receiving excellent host nation medical care at French facilities. The declining health of one French sailor, meanwhile, necessitated a transfer to the intensive care unit. Partially complicating the early detection process onboard the 'Charles de Gaulle' was the rate of asymptomatic carriers. Of the confirmed cases, nearly half showed no symptoms. Additionally, masks were not made available until late in the ship’s deployment. T The debilitating spread of the virus onboard France’s lone carrier, has sparked concern about the nation’s ability to remain ready to fight. Unlike the U.S. Navy, which touts 10 other active carriers in addition to the coronavirus-stricken USS 'Theodore Roosevelt', losing the 'Charles de Gaulle' for an extended period could cripple France’s nuclear deterrence capabilities.

On March 31, 2020, around 9 a.m. a fire broke out aboard the new built Panama flagged cruise ship 'Mardi Gras', 183200 gt (9837444), which is currently built at the Meyer yard in Turku. The fire occurred in a cabin on the upper deck, and fire crews managed to limit the fire to one cabin. In total, 18 fire brigade units were sent from the rescue service to the shipyard, but the fire could quickly be extinguished by the shipyard's own fire department. However, the ship must be checked to make sure there were no remaining hot spots. All workers were evacuated from the ship, but no one was injured in the fire. The cause of the fire was still unclear.