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The "Mody M" was detained om Alexandria on June 19, 2025, with 26 deficiencies, five of which being regarded as seriously and grounds for a detention: 1) Certificate & Doc - Medical certificate Missing 2) Certificate & Doc - Other (Certificates) Other 3) Propulsion and auxiliary machinery - Propulsion main engine Not as required 4) Propulsion and auxiliary machinery - Auxiliary machinery Not as required 5) Emergency systems - Emergency steering position com /compass reading Inoperative The vessel was released again on June 23- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063576908591

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Singapore-based port operator PSA International has completed the acquisition of Penn Terminals, located on the Delaware River in the US, from Macquarie Infrastructure Partners. According to PSA, Penn Terminals is one of the best equipped, privately owned multipurpose marine terminals on the Eastern Coast of the US. The deal marks PSA’s first acquisition in the US. Penn has recently undergone a significant capacity upgrade with the addition of two new post-panamax ship-to-shore (STS) cranes in late 2018.

The Aqaba Container Terminal (ACT) is the only container port in Jordan and the primary trade gateway for the Jordanian market, bordering five countries and three continents. The port handles capacities of 1.2 million TEUs and 1km of berthing. Under a joint Development Agreement between APM Terminals and the Aqaba Development Corporation (ADC), BAM International, a subsidiary of the European BAM Group, built the container terminal in 2013 and the Aqaba New Port in 2014. APM Terminals has invested USD 284 million in developing the terminal’s infrastructure and expanding its capacity.

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A crew member of the 'Arctic Lady', en route from Ferrol to Skagen with 35 crew members on board, has disappeared on June 22, 2025. The Filipino national was employed as a chief. The preferred hypothesis: he fell overboard in the Ushant. waters The CROSS Corsen was alerted at 8:24 a.m. when the crew realized the man was missing. He was last seen at around midnight and did not report for duty at 8:00 a.m. Significant resources were being deployed to find him, an H160 helicopter from the Lanvéoc base and a Falcon 50 aircraft from Lann-Bihoué flew to the area. The search was suspended at 11:00 p.m. No message from the missing person was found on board. The Arctic Lady continued on its way and is expected to arrive in Skagen on June 26. .

Two workers were killed and three others injured after a cable attached to a ship collapsed on them at a shipbreaking yard at Sitakunda in Bangladesh on Saturday evening. The accident happened at the Ziri Subedar shipbreaking yard and is the latest in a series of deaths at Bangladeshi yards this year. On July 31, three workers died after inhaling toxic fumes from a gas leak while dismantling a tanker in the same shipbreaking yard.

The implementation of a range of simple measures to streamline shift changes at APM Terminals Pipavav has reduced vessel idle times, added capacity and reduced impact on crane moves per hour due to shift change by around 16%. At the same time, it has also improved trailer driver and crane operator safety. The Pipavav team has introduced clearly marked parking bays for terminal trailers, which provide a safe distance between each trailer. This provides drivers with a safe area to conduct pre-operation checks and protects them from other vehicles when exiting their trailers.

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On June 22, 2025, the 'L 198', en route from Korpo to Nagu, drifted about a hundred meters at sea after technical failure of the engine with about a hundred people on board in the Turku archipelago. The ferrym fully loaded with cars, began to drift sideways towards nearby fish ponds after it left the quay. The crew immediately announced that the ferry had suffered a black out but that there was no danger. The Western Finland Coast Guard came to the rescue immediately. A patrol had just left Nagu in a rubber dinghy. They were able to push the ferry so that it did not drift further into the fish farms.A larger boat also arrived quickly and took the ferry under tow back to Korpo, where it was sidelined for investigations. The exact cause of the fault was not yet known. The ferry will now be tested before it is put back into service. Report with photo: https://x.com/meriraja/status/1936720381106171939

The Sri Lankan government on Friday said it has begun a massive development project to further modernize its ports across the country in order to transform Sri Lanka into a maritime hub in the region. The government information department said in a statement that under this mega development project, the Port of Colombo will continue to develop its facilities for container handling by continuous addition of capacity, advanced handling and processing technology. “The development of the East Container Terminal (ECT) at the Port of Colombo will be followed by the West Container Terminal (WCT 1 and 2) ahead of demand. The ECT and the South Asia Gateway Terminal will be expanded to create an ultra large container terminal, expanding the total capacity to 35 million TEUs in the coming years,” Sirimevan Ranasinghe, Secretary to the Ministry of Ports and Shipping and Western Development said. Last year, the Port of Colombo handled a record breaking seven million TEUs(twenty-foot equivalent units).

Saras announces that from 1st September 2019 it will starts direct supply of shipping fuels (bunkering) at specific dedicated areas of the ports of Sarroch and Cagliari. Saras will be able to offer the complete range of marine fuels: in addition to MDO (marine diesel oil) and traditional fuel oils, in fact, it will be supplied the new ecological fuel oil with a very low sulfur content (max 0.5% as per the latest specifications IMO 2020). All products are produced locally at the Sarlux refinery. The service is offered to meet the needs of ships arriving and departing from the above mentioned ports as well as to offer further supply options to the several ships that pass along the Sicilian Channel and the Tyrrhenian Sea. Refueling will be offered with a modern ship, the “M/T Atlantic”, equipped with all the most advanced safety tools and with a specifically trained crew, in order to offer the maximum guarantees to operate in full respect of the environment.