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The Orissa High Court has ordered the release of the 'Propel Fortune' one day after its arrest it at the Paradip Port on Dec 30, 2024, where it had arrived on Dec 28. It had been arrested for a non-payment of dues against supply of necessaries. The Court agreed to release the vessel after it offered to draw a demand draft of Rs.15,56,100/- in favour of the Registrar (Judicial) of the Court. The ship sailed from the port on Dec 31 and berthed in Damrah on Jan 1, 2025. The dues for provisions and services were held by the court in an interest-bearing account until a final resolution for the litigation case has been reached. If the judgment goes in the favour of MH Bland SL, they would receive the amount, otherwise the funds would be returned to the 'Propel Fortune'. The case has been set to be reviewed further on Jan 6.

A person has been found dead aboard the 'Alma', while it was berthed at the Ocean Quay in Copenhagen, where it arrived on Jan 2,2 2025. There wer eno indications of a criminal incident, the police said. The reefer was on its way from Klaipeda and transiting the Øresund, when it suddenly turned around at the island of Ven on the morning and headed towards Copenhagen. The ship departed again on the morning of Jan 3, headed to Skagen.

The 'Glen Sannox' has hit new problems just ten days before it is due to enter service with CalMac. Minor remedial work was required on the ship’s sewage system, which is expected to mean planned trial runs with passengers next week are likely to be scrapped,It is among several technical issues still to be resolved, which are understood to also include adjustments to an electronic system on the ferry’s bridge. A planned media preview trip on the ferry on Jan 7, 2025, has been postponed.

Royal Navy personnel from Devon and Cornwall were dispatched to watch Russian vessels sailing near the British coast until Dec 31, 2024. The Devonport-based HMS 'Somerset's crew was recalled on Dec 24, before it sailed two days later as the RFS 'Soobrazitelny' and her two support ships 'Sparta II' and 'General Skobelev' sailed across the English Channel. Airborne support was provided during the mission by the Type 23 frigate's Merlin helicopter, which was provided by 814 Naval Air Squadron at RNAS Culdrose. The shadowing operation lasted five days and ended on New Year's Eve. Report with photo: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2lglneve5o

Three civil cases are pending in the Commercial Court, in which the official owner of the "Luminosity", the company "Flying Cloud Overseas Limited" from Guernsey, is named as the defendant. At the end of Oct 2024, in two of these disputes, the Commercial Court accepted the proposal of the creditors and issued two temporary measures prohibiting the "disposal, alienation and encumbrance" of the yacht, as well as the measure of its departure from the Porto Montenegro Tivat marina. Acting according to the court's decision, the Port Authority of Kotor confiscated the yacht's shipping documents. Provisional measures in both cases were issued at the proposal of the creditors, at whose risk and expense they were to be taken and implemented until the legal disputes have been brought to an end, whereby the purchasers of the yacht are obliged to bear the costs of insuring the ship in the meantime, i.e. to pay the minimum number of members engaged on it the crew. The 'Luminosity' is linked to Russian oligarch Andrei Gurjev younger, one of the Russians who were put on the list of EU sanctions introduced due to Russia's war against Ukraine. As of March 9, 2022, he was on the list of Russian politicians and oligarchs associated with the regime of the Russian dictator Putin, and to which the EU imposed strict sanctions, including the freezing of their private property. Shortly before that, Gurjev was on the list of those sanctioned by the Government of the United Kingdom. The yacht arrived in Tivat from the Italian shipyard of the Azimut-Benetti company in Viareggio on March 10, 2022, after the Russian oligarch was placed on the EU sanctions list. Since then, the ship has been tied up in the Porto Montenegro marina. After most of the crew left, she has been guarded by a skeleton crew. The British management company "Burgess" announced that it had received permission from the British Government to pay the crew of this yacht the earnings that had been withheld from them due to sanctions. The two cases that had previously been filed against the official owner of the yacht with requests for the imposition of a temporary injunction against the owner , the Italian ship supply company "Versilia Supply" Serrvices" from Vijaređ, i.e. the company "Adriatic Marinas" (Porto Montenegro) from Tivat. In 2024, the Italian company reported a claim in the amount of €99.929,42, and Porto Montenegro €424.221,79 for unpaid connection and accommodation services. After the Commercial Court rejected the creditors' requests for the imposition of temporary measures in both first-instance proceedings, they appealed. The Council of the Commercial Court rejected the objections, so that currently two other temporary measures imposed in active disputes for which the Commercial Court does not provide information on creditors are valid for the "Luminosity". The yacht was offered for sale this summer through the website of the broker tower "Denison Yachting", at a price of 135 million euros. There is an interested buyer who is ready to pay all the debts of its current official owner to creditors in Montenegro and abroad, who have conducted or are still conducting court proceedings in this regard. n their own names, but as a rule, in a company, usually from an offshore destination. That company (the so-called shell company) is the official owner of the ship, and to make things even more complicated, the yacht is usually managed by another company (management company) which takes care of the day-to-day running of the ship - paying the crew, maintaining, supplying, applying regulations and standards, etc. In addition, yachts are, as a rule, registered to one of the so-called a flag of convenience - tax havens that, in addition to lower duties for its owner, also provide guarantees of additional confidentiality of data related to the yacht to potentially interested third parties. However, even though the official papers say otherwise, in the world it is more or less unofficially known for almost every mega and superyacht which natural person is its real owner.