The "Bavaria 83", 2792 ts (EU-No.: 04502760), which was underway on the Main near Aschaffenburg-Obernau with a cargo of 1200 tons soy bound for Obernau when the speedboat "Born 2 Porn" slammed into it on May 19, was allowed to continue its voyage on May 20 after the inspections were finished. Meanwhile the search for the two missing boat occupants was continued with the help of sonar, but to no avail yet. The other two, among them the boat driver, remained in hospital with fractures etc.

The "Etne" wich is running the Tørvikbygd-Jondal route had to be taken out of service in the morning of May 22 until further notice due to technical problems after a pump broke and smoke emerged from the ferry. Fire alarm went on, but this was said to happen routineöy when a pump breaks. The ferry was docked smoothly in Jondal, and the operators were working to bring in a replacement pump which will take some time during which the ferry service remaines suspended. Possible a replacement ferry, the smaller m/v "Olen", would have to be called from Sunde. A bypass option were the ferry routes Årsand-Gjermundshamn or Utne-Kvandal.

Following dredging work and adjustments to its pier, the Port of Tubarão is scheduled to conclude on Wednesday, May 22, its first operation to fully load the Valemax ship 'Vale Espírito Santo', the world's largest iron ore carrier, with total capacity of 400,000 metric tons. It will be the biggest loading operation in the 47-year history of the Port of Tubarão, beating its previous record, set in 2002 when the ship Berge Stahl was loaded with 335,088 metric tons of iron ore. Following the dredging work, the depth of the port's shipping channel has increased from 22.5 to 25.3 metres, making it possible to load ships with a draft (the vertical distance between the water surface and the lowest part of the ship) of up to 23 metres. The dredging work lasted 22 months and did not require any interruptions to the port's activities.

Collisions involving three vessels in the section of the Yangtze River in East China's Wuhu city, Anhui province, early Friday morning, May 17, 2013, left seven people missing. Twenty crew members on board the three vessels fell into the water after the collisions on Baimao Waterway. Thirteen of them have been rescued, according to the Yangtze River Maritime Department. The vessels included a tug boat carrying iron ore from Central China's Henan province, and cargo ships carrying steel products and limestone, respectively from Zhejiang province and Jiangsu province. The Ministry of Transport and the ministry's affiliated maritime affairs authorities have sent rescuers and experts for salvage and investigation.