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The 'Alfred', serving on the route Troon-Brodick, suffered an issue with the bow thruster that required the attendance of divers on Aug 28. As a consequence, the following sailings have been cancelled: Departure Troon - 1:35 p.m. Departure Brodick - 3:45 p.m. All other sailings were unaffected. The 'Alfred' is serving the route along with the ferry 'Glen Sannox' due to ongoing investigations of the 'Caledonian Isles', which caused that there is no scheduled service to Arran and between Ardrossan and Brodick.

The "Kaata" was detained on Aug 22, 2025, in Szezecin with 14 deficiencies, five of which being regarded as seriously and grounds for a detention: 1) Life saving Appliances - Lifeboats Not ready for use 2) Fire safety - Jacketed high pressure lines and oil leakage alarm Inoperative 3) Fire safety - Fire detection and alarm system Inoperative 4) Propulsion and auxiliary machinery - Propulsion main engine Not as required 5) ISM - Ism certificate Not as required The vessel was released again on Aug 26 and left the port en route to Ventspils., where it arrived on Aug 28. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063576908591

Beached at Alang 27.08.25 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10161913880145036&set=gm.10165310253793943&idorvanity=6884293942

The "Grande Sierra Leone" was taken in quarantine off the Belgian coast because a health document was not delivered amid the growing tension around the Ebola virus. On return from West Africa, after a call in Tilbury, the ship set sail for Antwerp on Oct 25, 2014. On Oct 26 round 8.30 a.m. the West Flemish sea pilot came on board to bring the ship to Flushing in accordance with the normal routine until at Vlissingen the authorities stopped the ship. After it was found out that the shipping agent in Antwerp in fact had submitted a health document, the ship was allowed to dock after having sailed in circles for hours.

A man was found dead aboard the 'Daleela' on the morning of Aug 27, 2025, upon its arrival at Limassol en route from Piraeus. Initial reports indicated that the deceased was of Greek origin and had lost consciousness during the voyage to Limassol. Police officers responded immediately to the scene after the ferry had docked at the port. The aAuthorities launched examinations to determine the cause and circumstances of the man’s death.

On Aug 20, 2020, the 'Aresit' berthed in Puerto Deseado, Santa Cruz, with 29 crew members who were all tested positive for COVID 19. A few days ago, two cases of COVID-19 were detected o board so a local laboratory carried out tests on the crew on board, and in all cases the results were positive. No crew member was tested negative, some with acute symptms and others positive but with low viral replication load. The vessel was fishing shrimps when the first two cases were detected, which led to the survey of the health situation of the 29 crew members. After mooring in Puerto Deseado, none of the people on board got off the boat. Most of the crew are asymptomatic in an isolated sector of the port until they become negative for the virus. The control of the 'Aresit' was in charge of the Argentine Naval Prefecture.

The Grid operator TenneT worked all day on Aug 26 to finally stabilize the high-voltage pylon in Franeker, and late in the evening it was reported to be safe and stable. On Aug 27, an inspection was to be conducted to determine the extent of the damage. Based on this inspection, the grid operator would make an assessment how to resolve this and how long it will take, hoping to be able to say something about that in the coming days. The barge 'Famke' (MMSI: 244630496) was also sailing again on the evening of Aug 26. The ship had been unloading sand in Leeuwarden when the power went out. The crane's clamp was in the hold at the time, so that the ship got stuck for two days. The 'Famke' returned to Harlingen, being one of the first vessels to pass under the power lines near Franeker on the evening of Aug 26. It berthed in Harlingen on Aug 27. Report with photos: https://www.omropfryslan.nl/nl/nieuws/17737248/hoogspanningsmast-stabiel-kijken-hoe-groot-schade-is-schip-uit-harlingen-vaart-weer

On the early afternoon of Aug 27, 2025, the captain of the 'Galicia' requested assistance from the CROSS Jobourg after one of the passengers, who was ill, was seeking medical assistance. The ship, which was operating between Bilbao and Portsmouth, was sailing approximately 20 nautical miles northwest of the Pointe de la Hague in the English Channel. The CRISO Jobourg established a conference call with the Toulouse Maritime Medical Consultation Center in Haute-Garonne, the Maritime Medical Coordination Emergency Medical Service (SAMU) in Le Havre and the 133 medical unit of the French Army Health Service based in Querqueville. After analyzing the situation, it was recommended to mecevac the patient. The CROSS Jobourg engaged an H-160 helicopter of the Naval Base in Maupertus. The helicopter took off with a medical team from the armed forces' health service on board. Once on site, it landed on the ferry and took the patient on board. He was then dropped off in Tourlaville, where he was taken care of by rescue services and transported to the hospital.

The "Sara" was detained on Aug 22, 2025, in Gemlik with seven deficiencies, five of which being regarded as seriously and grounds for a detention: 1) Fire safety - Fire doors/openings in fire resisting division Unsafe 2) Fire safety - Fire detection and alarm systems Inoperative 3) Fire safety - Other (Fire safety) Other 4) Emergency systems - Fire drills Lack of training 5) Alarms - UMS-Alarms Inoperative The vessel was released again on Aug 23 and proceeded to Tuzla, where it dropped anchor in pos. 40° 51' N 029° 10' E on Aug 25, remaineing stationary as of Aug 28. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063576908591

Beached at Aliaga 27.08.25

The Fort McHenry Federal Channel was closed on Aug 27 to establish a safety zone tfor salvage efforts of a hatch cover that was lost in the explosion aboard the 'W-Sapphier' on Aug 18, at 9.30 p.m. as it was leaving Baltimore Harbor with 23 crew members and two pilots on board. The Channel was to be closed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. to facilitate the recovery of the massive hatch cover. The hatch was located earlier this week after the Army Corps of Engineers deployed a sonar-equipped survey vessel at the explosion site. The Coast Guard initially set up a 2,000-yard safety zone from the Key Bridge to Brewerton Angle Channel Lighted Buoy “14” and dispatched multiple crews, along with the Baltimore Fire Department and Maryland Natural Resources Police. On the morning of Aug 26, the Port of Baltimore announced the Fort McHenry Federal Channel would remain closed while the Coast Guard determined when it can safely reopen. Vessel arrivals and departures were on hold. The Coast Guard lifted a temporary safety zone near the hatch cover south of Fort Carroll on the afternoon of Aug 21, after activating it on Aug 20 and the next morning. Boaters could now travel freely in the area, until the restriction returned for dive or salvage work. nvestigators from the Coast Guard and various agencies are expected to board the ship to figure out how the explosion happened. After that, the Coast Guard will work on a plan to clear the bulkcarrier from the port, which was still moored in pos. 39° 01' N 076° 22' W as of Aug 27. Report with photo: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coast-guard-to-salvage-30-ton-hatch-from-ship-explosion-in-baltimore/ar-AA1KXCGc?apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1

The Italian government has designated Ravenna as a safe port for the 'Humanity 1', which was expected to arrive on the morning of Aug 28 with 51 rescued migrants on board. The decision was communicated by the Italian Ministry of Interior to the Municipality in Emilia-Romagna on Aug 23, following the rescue of the migrants by the NGO ship. The Mayor of Ravenna, Alessandro Barattoni, recalled that this was the 24th ship of NGOs to arrive in the port in two and a half years and said, the ship would be the last one to dock in Ravenna until a national roundtable of the cities identified as having safe ports has been held in Rome. The Municipality of Ravenna had always cooperated with the Ministry and the Prefecture to assure the best logistic and organizational conditions during the arrivals, but at the same time it also always denounced the inhumanity and lack of coherence of the choices of the safe ports that are far from the sea rescue areas. Also on board the 'Humanity 1',, there were many criticisms concerning the choice of RAvenna as safe port: "Once again, Italian authorities fail to allow those rescued the right to dock at a safe and nearby port! We were assigned the port of Ravenna, which is slightly more than 1.600 kilometers from the place where we rescued 51 persons, among them approximately 10 unaccompanied minors," stated the NGO on Aug 24.

On Aug 26, 2025, the 'Punta da Guía' came to assist the historic tug 'San Esteban', which had run aground at América beach, in the Ría de Vigo, and pulled it to the port of Baiona. The historic steamboat, now powered by a diesel engine, had run aground on the morning on the beach of Playa América due to a mechanical failure and heavy swell. It got stuck in the middle of the Nigrán sandbank. The skipper attempted to maneuver it back out to sea several times, but was unable to do so until, just after 3:00 p.m., the vessel was towed off by the Galician Coast Guard thanks to the rising tide after an hour of maneuvers In 1902, the 'San Esteban' was completed at the Phillips & Sons Shipbuilders Ltd. shipyard in Dartmouth. Measuring almost 17 meters in length and just over four meters in width, it operated as a fishing vessel for its first five years under the name 'Venture'. In 1907, it was converted into a tug, owned by the Sociedad General de Ferrocarriles Vasco-Asturiana (Basque-Asturian General Railway Company). It ceased operations in 1970 and was later rescued from scrap and restored between 1998 and 2003 by the San Esteban Tugboat Protection Society, which included engineer José Cardín, manager of Sidra El Gaitero. Today, it is owned by Industrias Ferri, based in the A Pasaxe industrial estate in Gondomar, which financed its latest restoration in 2021 at Talleres Carral. Reports with photos and video: https://www.msn.com/es-es/noticias/virales/el-remolcador-remolcado-gardacostas-rescata-al-barco-hist%C3%B3rico-que-embarr%C3%B3-en-praia-am%C3%A9rica/ar-AA1LiQce https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/vigo/nigran/2025/08/26/barco-vapor-san-esteban-encalla-playa-america-queda-varado-marea-baja/00031756199611314958656.htm https://www.elcomercio.es/asturias/bajo-nalon/vaporin-encalla-galicia-orillas-playa-america-20250827074445-nt.html https://www.vigoe.es/comarcas/val-minor/nigran/asi-fue-el-rescate-del-san-esteban-tras-encallar-en-praia-america/ https://www.farodevigo.es/comarcas/2025/08/26/barco-historico-embarra-praia-america-120947708.html https://www.atlantico.net/nigran/buque-san-esteban-leyenda-flotante_1_20250826-3960054.html

On the morning of Aug 22, 2025, the "Ullensvang",serving on the C route between Solavågen - Festøya, had to cancel its sailings due to technical problems. The operator Norled started repairs and hoped that the ferry would be able to return to the route from the morning of Aug 27. The ship was back in normal operation with a departure from Solavågen on Aug 27 at 06.10.

On the afternoon of Aug 27, 2025, the Rafina Port Authority was informed by the 'Fast Ferry Andros', that a 50-year-old passenger felt unwell after boarding the ship. He was immediately provided with first aid by doctors among the other passengers. The man was then picked up by an EKAB and taken to the Agia Olga General Hospital.

Beached at Alang 26.08.25

arrived Gadani Anchorage 27.08.25

The voyage data recorder (VDR), of the 'Eagle S' was not functioning during the critical period in which the vessel damaged several undersea cables in the Gulf of Finland. According to materials from the National Bureau of Investigation (KRP), made public as part of an ongoing criminal trial, the data recorder failed to capture the moment when the vessel's anchor severed the Estlink 2 electricity cable on Dec 25, 2024. The investigators found that the VDR had only begun recording data at 12:59 that day. By that time, the tanker had already entered Finland’s exclusive economic zone at 12:23 and crossed over Estlink 2, where the cable was damaged. KRP officials seized the VDR and conducted technical examinations, including efforts to recover overwritten or deleted data. No usable recordings were found between Dec 18 and 12:59 on Dec 25, a period during which the vessel had mostly remained in Russian territorial waters. The investigators considered both equipment failure and intentional interference. The KRP found no signs of tampering. A technical explanation emerged during forensic analysis: the VDR system relied on a GPS time signal, which had been lost intermittently during the voyage. According to police findings, the GPS receiver onboard had reverted to an incorrect time, sometimes displaying the year 2005, when it failed to acquire a satellite signal. As a result, the recorder deleted existing files to manage disk space. Investigators described the GPS unit as outdated, dating back to the early 2000s. The captain Davit Vadatchkoria told investigators that the ship had lost its GPS signal approximately an hour after entering Russian waters. Signal reception remained unstable until it resumed at 12:59 onAug 25. At that point, the VDR resumed normal recording, including bridge communications. At 1:05 p.m., just minutes after the system reactivated, the ship’s second mate informed the captain of low engine revolutions. The fifth and final cable break occurred later that evening at 6:43 p.m. The 'Eagle S' had been first anchoring in St Petersburg on Dec 21, and departid from Ust-Luga with a fuel cargo on Dec 24.

A 19-year-old crew member of the 'Aresit' was medevaced by the Argentine Naval Prefecture on Aug 26, 2025. The fishing vessel was sailing more than 290 kilometers off the coast of Rawson at that time. The operation, which involved a helicopter and a support plane, was carried out after a request from the captain of the "Aresit," who reported that one of his crew members was suffering from severe abdominal pain. He presented symptoms of severe epigastric pain, dizziness, and vomiting, so the Prefecture's medical team determined he required immediate hospital care. The helicopter took off with specialized personnel, and once over the vessel, a medical basket was lowered to hoist the patient. The operation was completed successfully, and the man was transferred to the Trelew airport, where an ambulance was waiting to take him to the local hospital for admission. The operation was coordinated by the Maritime Traffic Management Center. Report with photo: https://cholilaonline.ar/2025/08/prefectura-aeroevacuo-a-un-joven-tripulante-del-pesquero-aresit.html

The port of Algeciras (Cádiz) was forced to suspend operations at one of its four berths after the Morocco Star', serving on the route Tanger-Cadiz, allided with two barriers of berth 2 of the pasenger terminal on Aug 21, 2025, at around 8:00 p.m. The vessel hit with its port side as it was about to dock in Algeciras. No casualties were reported, however, the berth barriers were damaged, preventing the resumption of operations at the terminal.