On the night of Sep 16, 2024, the pleasure boat 'Carmen' was disabled and adrift in the mussel farm polygon northeast of La Guía, due to an engine failure. The auxiliary boat of the 'María Pita' was launched and took the boat in tow to the port of Santa Cristina de Cobres.
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SUN PRINCESS
On Sep 16 a woman needed to be medevaced from the 'Sun Princess' due to medical problems, while the ship was sailing four nautical miles from Cartagena. The CCS Cartagena of Salvamento Marítimo mobilized the SAR boat 'Salvamar Draco', which embarked the patient and transported her to the port of Cartagena, where an ambulance was waiting for further transport to hospital.
Saint Nazaire
Celebrity Cruises will offer new and longer European voyages onboard the new Celebrity Apex when she launches in 2020. Passengers onboard the Edge Class ship will visit Greece, Turkey, Italy, Portugal, Spain and more when she launches next year.
Liege
Konecranes Port Services will retrofit electrification to a Model 2 Konecranes Gottwald Mobile Harbor crane in DP World’s Liège Container Terminal in Belgium, lowering the terminal’s local emissions and noise. Strategically located along the Meuse river in eastern Belgium, the Port of Liège is the third-largest river port in Europe, directly linked to both Antwerp and Rotterdam. The DP World Liège Container Terminal (DPW LCT) is the only trimodal terminal in Wallonia, operating four barges to Antwerp every week.
LS HERMES
The CCS of Salvamento Marítimo in Fisterra has coordinated the assistance to the pöeasure boat 'Sinde', which requested towing assistance on Sep 16, 2024, with two crew members on board. The boat had got its propulsion fouled by rope around the propeller at the entrance to the Arousa Estuary. The 'LS Hermes' was mobilized and towed the boat to Ribeira. Report with photo: https://x.com/salvamentogob/status/1835673048550089059
D S G
On Sep 13, 2024, the Oceanexl FZC company along with the tanker 'D S G' was banned from bunker trading by the UAE Maritime Administration due to multiple offenses, including the violation of federal law and international conventions. The decision to ban the supplier along with the delivery vessel was made following an incident where the tanker had delivered 700 metric tons of High Sulfur Fuel Oil (HSFO) under the pretext of delivering Very Low Sulfur Fuel Oil (VLSFO) to a vessel that did not have a scrubber. The OceanEXL had deliberately provided misleading information, claiming that the transfer of oil was a ship-to-ship transfer and not a bunkering operation. A formal letter from the senior management of OceanEXL to the Maritime Administration of the UAE stated that they had not issued the Bunker Delivery Note (BDN). During the subsequent investigation, the ship receiving the oil had produced the BDN provided by OceanEXL, proving to be in direct contradiction to the claims of OceanEXL management. The BDN had also been falsified to show that the oil being transferred was VLSFO, whereas the investigation revealed the oil transferred to be HSFO.
Nassau
Global Ports Holdings (GPH) is to operate Prince George Wharf and related areas at Nassau Cruise Port in The Bahamas for the next 25 years. According to an agreement with the Government of The Bahamas, GPH has joined forces with the Bahamas Investment Fund and the Yes Foundation to create the Nassau Cruise Port Ltd. (NCP) consortium. GPH will use its global expertise and operating model to manage Nassau Cruise Port. “I am delighted that NCP has signed a port operation and lease agreement for Prince George Wharf at Nassau Cruise Port,” said Mehmet Kutman, chairman and co-founder of GPH.
Davao
Kudos Trucking Company has ordered two Konecranes Noell Rubber Tired Gantry (RTG) cranes and two Konecranes Gottwald Model 5 Mobile Harbor Cranes (MHCs) for their terminal in Davao City, the Philippines. Konecranes booked the order in June 2019.
SALVAMAR ADHARA
On Sep 16 a cayuco asked for help via telephone call 13 nautical miles southeast of El Hierro. The CCS Tenerife of Salvamento Marítimo mobilized the 'Salvamar Adhara', which located the stopped bpat. The crew rescued the 67 people on board, among them one woman and two children, and transferred the castaways to La Restinga. Report with photo: https://x.com/salvamentogob/status/1835721170357755931
MV SANGKO UNO
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has arrested ten crew members of the 'Sangko Uno' who were suspected of working as undocumented crew members aboard the ship at the Navotas port on Sep 16, 2024. Officers discovered five Chinese nationals and one Filipino national working on the dredger without proper documents. Upon questioning, they stated that their documents would be arriving from the company's office on Sep 16, following which they would present them to the officials. The Coast Guard collected other documents for their investigations, including the crew list, the logbook and other relevant records. Along with the Bureau of Immigration they conducted the investigation to verify the legal status of the alleged crewmembers. After cross-examining the documents, the six suspected crew members were arrested aboard the ship. On Sep 17 at around 12:40 a.m. LT the officers conducted a follow-up operation and arrested four more crew members for the same charges. Among the arrested cwas also the captain. They were tanken to the Coast Guard Detention Centre for booking procedures and medical examinations, before filing the appropriate charges.
Ancona
Fincantieri floated Silversea’s new ultra-luxury cruise ship, Silver Moon, out of the building dock at its yard in Ancona, Italy on 29 August. Representatives from Fincantieri and Silversea and other invited guests watched as the 596-guest ship touched water for the first time during a traditional coin ceremony. Fincantieri will now work with its partners to outfit the vessel’s interiors ahead of her sea trials and delivery in 2020. “Today, with the float out of Silver Moon, we draw ever-closer to achieving my father’s dream of a 12-ship fleet,” said Manfredi Lefebvre, Silversea’s executive chairman.
Koper
The Koper port placed 80th on this year’s list of 900 best connected container ports in the world, published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad). The port has been listed the highest among all Adriatic Sea container ports since the first such ranking in 2006. The first place went to the Shanghai port, while the port of Antwerp was the best in Europe, having been placed 6th in the world.