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The 'Galapagos' was diverted to Jersey for fishing in English waters without a license on June 24, 2025. On the afternoon Rodrigue Sevalle, the skipper from Granville, was arrested at sea by the Jersey authorities. The captain had been trawling in English waters even though he did not hold a license.

The Dutch Ministry of Defence, together with Belgium, has donated minehunters to Ukraine. The Dutch Zr. Ms. 'Vlaardingen' will bear the name 'Melitopol', after the Ukrainian city that has been temporarily occupied by the Russians. The ship was handed over at the Belgian naval base Zeebrugge. Later in 2025 the Zr.Ms. 'Makkum' will also be delivered. That ship will bear the name 'Henichesk', another temporarily occupied city in Ukraine. The ministry did not report what the Belgian ship BNS 'Narcis' will be called. The Ukrainian crew has been trained by Belgian and Dutch trainers, technicians and maintenance teams.

On May 2, a HLC 295000 heavy load crane of Liebherr mounted on the deck of the 'Orion I' crashed in the Seaport of Rostock during a test when lifting a pontoon which was filled with 5.550 tons of water. The crane boom broke off, and parts fell onto the 'Orion I', which started to list to port side, and onto the quay edge. Heavy metal pieces flew around. Five people inside the crane's cabin were injured by the heave jerk. The fire brigade, ambulances and police attended with a large contingent. They tried to free the victims from the steel mesh. There were two serious and three minor injuries. A total of 120 people were on board the 'Orion I' who were now being evacuated and looked after. A rescue helicopter has landed. In addition, large amounts of oil leaked out, which the fire brigade has to collect before it got into the water. It is the second accident on the Liebherr site within a few months. In January, two loading cranes fell into the water during tests. The salvage then took several months. Reports with photos and video: https://www.nonstopnews.de/meldung/32916 https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/Rostock-Erneutes-Unglueck-mit-Hafenkran,hafenkran156.html https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/panorama/id_87809036/rostock-krank-knickt-im-hafen-ab-fuenf-verletzte.html

The American destroyer USS 'Kidd' returned to Everett after nearly 50 crew members aboard were tested positive for coronavirus as of April 27, 2020. This was the second reported outbreak of COVID-19 aboard a US Navy vessel at sea. After concerns were raised about cases aboard the USS 'Theodore Roosevelt', one sailor assigned to that ship died from coronavirus complications. Roughly half the crew members on the USS 'Kidd' have been tested for the virus, and some have been evacuated. 45% of the ship have been tested for COVID-19, with 47 total positive results. Two Sailors have been medically evacuated. 15 sailors have been transferred to USS 'Makin Island (LHD 8)' for monitoring due to persistent symptoms. None were in the ICU or on ventilators. Sailors aboard the USS 'Kidd' were wearing PPE and N95 masks. Initial COVID-19 testing of sailors from the USS 'Theodore Roosevelt' were now complete, there are 955 active cases, along with 14 recovered cases. The USS 'Kidd' was on a counter narcotics mission' when ait was reported at least 18 crew had fallen ill with the virus.

The 'El Venizelos' has been detained in the port of Marseille for three days after being subjected to an inspection by the Port Autonome de Marseille following the arrival on June 23, 2025. The inspection recommended the upgrade of certain onboard technical equipment to improve its readiness and performance, Algérie Ferries stated, without providing further details. With the 'El Venizelos' blocked in the port of Marseille, Algérie Ferries has lost a quarter of its fleet, consisting of four ships, but assured its customers that this inspection would not affect the scheduled voyages for the 2025 summer season, nor the readiness of the fleet. The 'El Venizelos' had arrived at the port of Algiers on June 19. On June 22 it set sail to Marseille, where it arrived on June 23, and was detained by the Ship Safety Center of the Interregional Maritime Directorate (Dirm Med) for eficiencies not made public within the framework of Port State Control (Paris Memorandum).

MSC has started talks with the Boskalis subsidiary Smit Salvage about the salvage of the 'MSC Elsa 3', after the shipping company terminated the contract with the the American T&T Salvage after delays in removing oil from the wreck. The new salvage contract was allegedly nearing completion. According to MSC, the company T&T Salvage did not have the necessary expertise, although great progress had already been made in sealing leaks in the fuel lines by divers. The removal of the more than 450 tons of marine fuel had been delayed because the installation for saturation diving was still at the customs.

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The 'AIDAblu' made a brief stopover yesterday in Marseille on April 26, 2020, to embark several hundred crew members of one of his sisterships, the 'AIDAsol', which has been moored in the port for 1,5 months. The transfer took place to facilitate the repatriation of AIDA personnel via Germany. The 'AIDAblu' set sail again in the afternoon. At the same time, another cruise ship which had been berthed in Marseille since last month, the 'Europa 2' of Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, set sail to also return to Germany, its arrival in Hamburg was scheduled for May 2. The Marseille areas now hosted six cruise ships, the 'Costa Smeralda', 'MSC Magnifica' and 'AIDAsol', 'Le Boréal', 'L’Austral' and 'Le Lyrial'. The repatriation operations of the international personnel of these ships was still in progress, in particular via flights chartered by the owners. This was particularly the case for the crew members of the 'MSC Magnifica', which arrived on April 20 and who also landed 4 tonnes of food surplus, donated to local associations to help the most disadvantaged.

The Dutch Ministry of Defence, together with Belgium, has donated minehunters to Ukraine. The Dutch Zr. Ms. 'Vlaardingen' will bear the name 'Melitopol', after the Ukrainian city that has been temporarily occupied by the Russians. The ship was handed over at the Belgian naval base Zeebrugge. Later in 2025 the Zr.Ms. 'Makkum' will also be delivered. That ship will bear the name 'Henichesk', another temporarily occupied city in Ukraine. The ministry did not report what the Belgian ship BNS 'Narcis' will be called. The Ukrainian crew has been trained by Belgian and Dutch trainers, technicians and maintenance teams.

The US Coast Guard medevaced a crew member of the 'AAL Kembla', enroute from Balboa to Ningbo, off Kauai on June 26, 2025. The JRCC Honolulu received a phone call on June 24 at 9:30 a.m. from the crewing superintendent of the cargo m/v, which was approximately 800 miles northwest of Kauai at that tim after a 26-year-old crew member had been experiencing severe abdominal pain for three days. After conferring with the duty flight surgeon, who recommended a medevac, the watchstanders established regular communications with the vessel to monitor the patient’s status as the 'Aal Kembla' proceeded towards Hawaii. On June 26 at 4:30 a.m. an HC-130 Hercules airplane launched to conduct a pre-hoist brief with the vessel and provide support during the hoist. At 5:47 a.m. an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew successfully carried out the hoist and transported the man to the Lihue Airport, where emergency medical services transferred the patient to Wilcox Medical Center for a higher level of care. Report with video: https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/4227948/coast-guard-medevacs-crew-member-from-cargo-ship-offshore-kauai/

The number of coronavirus cases aboard the USS 'Kidd' rose to 64 as the Navy destroyer pulled into port at San Diego on April 28, 2020, to get medical care for the crew and to disinfect and decontaminate the ship. The 'Kidd' was the second Navy ship to have an outbreak of the disease while at sea, the other being the USS 'Theodore Roosevelt', an aircraft carrier that has been docked at Guam for a month and has more than 900 sailors with confirmed cases of COVID-19, but the entire crew has now been tested. The Navy has moved swiftly to get the 'Kidd''s crew ashore. That was a point of contention with the 'Roosevelt', whose skipper, Capt. Brett Crozier, felt compelled to write to several other commanders pleading for more urgent Navy action to protect his crew of nearly 5,000. Crozier was then relieved of command for what the Navy's top civilian official at the time, Thomas Modly, called poor judgment. Modly resigned several days later, and the Navy is now seeking higher-level approval to reverse his move and restore Crozier to command. The Navy said that 63% of the 'Kidd''s crew of more than 300 had been tested as of April 28. One sailor was medically evacuated to the United States on April 22 after experiencing shortness of breath. Fifteen were transferred to another ship with a medical facility for closer observation of symptoms. Sailors being removed from the 'Kidd' at San Diego will be isolated with twice-daily medical screenings. Crew members who have tested negative will enter quarantine for a period of observation, with military health professionals monitoring them for symptoms. Also, a small contingent of sailors who tested negative will remain on the ship for essential services and deep cleaning. The cleaning is expected to take two weeks. The destroyer had been off the Pacific coast of Central American doing counter-narcotics operations. The Navy said no deployed ships currently have known coronavirus cases aboard. 13 ships that previously had one or more active cases while in port have zero cases now.

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.