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The 'Ivar Aasen', serving on the route between Solholmen and Mordalsvågen, ran aground on a reef on the late evening of March 5. 2026. The ship was breached, and 1,5 tons oil leaked out. The operator Fjord 1 announced that the connectionwas was suspended with the "Ivar Aasen" blocking the quay at Solholmen. The company was waiting for permits before the ship could be moved, to be able to deploy a reserve vessel. The route was served again on March 6 at 3.35 p.m.

In Benin, the public prosecutor of the CRIET requested prison sentences against the crew of the SPSL 'Udeme' as well as police officers and a smuggler. At the hearing on March 6, the public prosecutor made his submissions in the legal procedure, which was initiated after the ship ran aground on the beach of Fidjrossè, 18 people are being prosecuted before the special jurisdiction. Among them, three military sailors, a police officer and the 14 crew members of the ship. The civil servants are accused of "abuse of office". The crew members are being prosecuted for "navigating without a permit and violating the rules". The smuggler is accused of "trafficking in petroleum products". In its submissions, the public prosecutor requested prison sentences ranging from three to five years against eight defendants and acquittal on the benefit of the doubt for ten people. The second deputy special prosecutor, after recalling the facts that motivated the prosecution, requested five years in prison, including two years in prison and one million CFA francs against the head of the information and communication department of the maritime prefecture and the commander of the river police, at the time of the incident. The public prosecutor accuses them of "abuse of office". According to the magistrate's explanations, the two civil servants have contacts with the ship's representative, an informant of theirs. But he allegedly did nothing to secure the ship. The public prosecutor blamed the commander of the Cotonou river base for having summoned some members of the crew after their first arrest. Concerning the informer, smuggler and representative of the ship to the officers, the public prosecutor wants the Court to sentence him to five years in prison and two million CFA francs. The second deputy special prosecutor charges him with "smuggling, complicity in abuse of office and illegal introduction of petroleum products". According to the magistrate, he is the beneficiary of the petroleum product that was being transhipped when the ship had a technical breakdown. Among the 14 crew members, five of them, including the captain of the ship, could spend their next three years in prison and may have to pay two million CFA francs, which were the sentences that the public prosecutor requested for them. They were charged, according to the magistrate, with "navigation without a permit, trafficking in petroleum products, and introduction into Benin's territorial waters". The prosecutor denounced, that they chose to turn off their transponder to avoid being detected. The representative of the public prosecutor requested the confiscation of the ship and all the products it was carrying. He also asked the Court to uphold the civil party represented by the State Judicial Agent (AJE) and to order the defendants to pay the sum of 300 million FCFA claimed by the Beninese State. The public prosecutor, during his requisitions, proposed acquittals. The commander of the Cotonou naval base at the time of the events could be among them. The deputy prosecutor suggested that he be acquitted for the benefit of the doubt. According to the magistrate, the officer did not position himself on any operation when the smuggler contacted him. The smuggler, the magistrate maintains, stated this in his statements before the Court. Like the commander of the naval base, nine other defendants including members of the crew can hope to regain their freedom soon. According to the public prosecutor, these are people who could not prevent what happened. Following the public prosecutor's requisitions, the lawyers pleaded for their clients. Mr. Moustatpha and Mr. Agbanlin requested the acquittal of the members of the ship's crew. According to the counsel, the offenses charged against their clients could not be established because the ship was not in transit in Benin. Had it not been for the breakdown, the lawyers maintained, no one would be talking about the ship. They demanded the pure and simple acquittal of their clients.

The Coast Guard is analyzing the black box of the 'Seajewel', which had suffered an attack while it was unloading its cargo of crude oil at the Sarpom buoys near Savona. The aim of the Genoa DDA is to verify whether the tracker was turned off during the voyage from the oil port of Arzew to Italy. The prosecutor Nicola Piacente and the prosecutor Monica Abbatecola, who have opened an investigation for shipwreck with terrorist purposes, have delegated Digos and the Coast Guard to investigate in detail to discover not only the perpetrators but also the motive for the attack. For this reason, chemical analyses were ordered on the oil and the ship's route, in order to verify any anomalies that could support the hypothesis of a connection between the tanker and the Russian shadow fleet, that traffics Russian oil by triangulating Russian ports with non-European ports or by refueling at sorting centers that operate covertly to sell Russian oil that is under embargo and therefore not marketable in Europe. Among the maneuvers and suspicious transfers cited by activists, one concerns the oil tanker 'Sealeo', which in August, before arriving at the port of Augusta, turned off its tracker for 84 hours. The ship was coming from the Russian port of ​​Novorossiysk and the owner of the 'Sealeo' is Thenamaris, the same as the 'Seajewel' and the 'Seacharm', which suffered an attack in mid-January off the coast of Turkey. Two experts have been appointed by the Genoa Public Prosecutor's Office, Federico Canfarini and the naval engineer Alfredo Lo Noce, to personally verify the hull of the ship, which left Savona on Feb 21 and arrived near Athens on March 26, and has not yet entered the Pureo dock for repairs. As of March 6, it was anchored in pos. 37° 27' N 023° 56' E. The first examination of the images taken by divers showed that the innermost hull of the tanker was dented by the explosion. The attack could have caused serious environmental damage if a second device had exploded together with the first instead of detaching and exploding on the seabed.

On March 6, 2026, the 'Angvik', serving between Gomalandet, Kirkelandet, Nordlandet and Kristiansund. suffered a mechanical failure off Kristiansund in Møre og Romsdal, and was disabled and adrift. An MOB of Maersk Training in Melkvikan and the lifeboat 'Bergen Kreds' proceeded to assist. The MOB kept the ship in a safe distance from the nearby rocks amid a light gale from the west with a wind gusts of 22 m/s. The lifeboat then went alongside and pulled the ferryboat to a berth in Kristiansund, where troubleshooting and repairs commenced with mechanics of Kystvågen. The service was cancelled as the other ship, the 'Framnæs', could not be put into operation, as the rafts did not return from certification by Certex until March 7, when the 'Framnæs' could enter the regular route at 07:00 a.m. Report with photos: https://www.brunsvika.net/nyhetsarkiv-alle-artikler/32183-maersk-training-forst-til-sundbaten

On the early morning of March 5, 2025, the 'Polar' sank at its mooring at Lisbon’s Alfeite Naval base following a rapid entry of water. It came to rest on a water depth of 30 metres. There were no victims nor any danger of pollution resulting from the shipwreck. The instruction sailboat used since 1985 to train cadets at the Naval School, was already being worked on by technical teams to refloat it. It was built in 1977 as ''Anne Line' at the Phoenix B.V. shipyard in Westerbroeck, Rotterdam. Initially registered in Viersen (FRG), it operated on cruises until 1982. In 1983, the Portuguese Navy incorporated it into its fleet and it was used to train cadets. Since 1985, it has served as a training ship for the Naval School, playing a fundamental role in the training of future naval officers.