The 'AAL Merkur' was boarded by three perpetrators, who were not armed, on May 29, 2024, at 7.20 p.m. at Phu My Anchorage in pos. 10° 12 N 10° 107.3 E. The alert duty crew noticed the perpetrator, shouted at him and raised the alarm, resulting in the person escaping empty-handed in a wooden boat along with two accomplices.
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TAMAHINE
On the morning of June 4, 2024, at 6.45 a.m. the 'Tamahine', while leaving port, ran aground with two crew members on board at Taiaroa Head, below the Royal Albatross Centre on Otago Peninsula. One of the two fishermen made his way onto the rocks, while the skipper stayed on the vessel. A rescue helicopter crew winched two members down on to the rocks who battled through the waves to reach the ship and assist the skipper back to the rocks, from where he and the deckhand were winched to safety. The skipper was taken to Dunedin Hospital in a moderate condition, and the other man was assessed and treated at the scene. The police alerted to the incident about 7.30 a.m. The ship was rapidly breaking up in the high swell and lying half-submerged in the sea. Safe navigation in and out of the harbour was not affected. No pollution was reported. The wreck was being monitored by the Dunedin Coastguard and regional council, but rough sea conditions had made it too dangerous to reach. The amount of fuel on board was unknown. Report with photo and video: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/dramatic-sea-rescue-taiaroa-head
Tallinn
Active construction is currently underway in the D-terminal of the Port of Tallinn being built by Nordecon, in order to open the first phase of construction of the renovated D-terminal to passengers within two months, the port says in a press release. A digital twin of the new D-Terminal building and the remodeled part which aims to make the building's life cycle more efficient was created in the BIM implementation model. The completion of the extension and reconstruction work of the port is scheduled for summer 2020.
Rostock
Marine battery supplier Corvus Energy is to install its lithium-ion battery storage systems onboard AIDA Cruises’ ships to reduce fossil fuel use and emissions. In a project that will also involve ABB and Siemens, Corvus will install and commission the battery storage systems on the first AIDA ship in 2020. The companies then plan to then use their findings from the pilot project to successfully fit battery systems onboard other vessels in the AIDA fleet. “Our goal is the emissions-neutral ship operation,” said Michael Thamm, group CEO of Costa Group and Carnival Asia.
NIS RANDERS
The former DGzRS lifeboat 'Nis Randers' will become the 'Sea Eye 5' and save lives in the Mediterranean as the 4th ship of the United4Rescue alliance. To finance the purchase, United4Rescue is launching a fundraising campaign on June 4, 2024. The ship will be overhauled in the coming weeks, renamed and is due to start its first deployment in summer.
EUGEN MAERSK
On June 3, 2024, the 'Eugene Maersk', en route from Tanger Med to Algeciras, has rescued 32 migrants of Maghreb origin from a boat that the crew located about 60 nautical miles from Arrecife. Once the container ship had anchored near Naos port, the crew of the SAR biat 'Salvamar Al Nair' (MMSI: 224944850) embarked them and transferred the castaways to Arrecife. Report with photos: https://x.com/salvamentogob/status/1797700452588429498
Rotterdam
The Port of Rotterdam Authority has reached an agreement with Sif Holding n.v. regarding the lease of 20 ha of port site and a 200-m stretch of deep-sea quay at Maasvlakte. Sif’s new lot lies adjacent to its existing port site, where the company already works on the assembly of foundations for offshore wind turbines, the company said in its release. Sif will be using the newly allocated site on behalf of clients active in the offshore wind power sector. The first project to be undertaken at the new site will be the logistics handling of all 94 monopiles (wind turbine foundations) destined for the offshore wind farm Borssele 1 + 2, commissioned by Deme Offshore.
Tangier
Kalmar, part of Cargotec, has concluded an agreement with long-term customer EUROGATE Tanger (EGT) in Morocco to upgrade four ZPMC ship-to-shore (STS) cranes, as part of the terminal’s expansion plans. With a quay length of 821 meters, a terminal area of 400,000 m2 and a water depth of up to 18 meters, the facility is well-equipped to handle the new generation of containerships. The terminal’s equipment fleet already includes several Kalmar machines, including rubber-tired gantry cranes (RTGs). Furthermore, Kalar will be responsible for the planning, engineering and execution of the entire project, which involves heightening the four STS cranes by 11 meters and extending the booms by six meters. The project with Kalmar will help the terminal serve mega-sized container vessels.
PAXOS ISLAND
On the morningof Juen 3, 2024, the Port Authority of Corfu was informed by the Master of the 'Paxos Island', that during the disembarkation process the starboard side main engine could not be started. The ship was carrying out a scheduled route from the port of Corfu to the port of Gaio Paxos with 74 passengers on board. The Central Port Authority of Corfu banned the ship from sailing until the repair of the damage and the presentation of a certificate of class maintenance and seaworthiness by the monitoring classification society.
ROLIN
Under pressure from Greece’s navy, traders of Russian oil have found a new place to switch cargoes of crude in the Mediterranean sea near the city of Nador at the eastern end of Morocco’s coast. Since May, Greece’s navy has been holding naval exercises in a location where the trade had been taking place in a attempt to deter it. The new location is close to the Spanish-run enclave Melilla, raising the prospect that Madrid might repeat steps it took to block similar activity 140 miles to the west, near its other enclave Ceuta. Those measures ultimately stopped the practice. The 'Rolin' was s receiving Urals crude from the smaller tanker 'Serendi' (IMO: 9296810). It was the first time that the STS transfer of the grade has taken place there. Two more Aframax-class ship, the 'Ocean AMZ' and 'Sea Fidelity' — have also arrived. All three loaded about 730,000 barrels of Urals from Russia’s Baltic sea port of Primorsk.
Wismar
Genting Hong Kong (GHK) has officially secured funding for the construction and post-delivery financing of Dream Cruises’ two new Global Class ships. KfW IPEX-Bank will supply US$2.9 billion, with backing from the Federal Republic of Germany, Finnish export credit agency Finnvera, and the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. At an overall cost of €3.1 billion (US$3.4 billion), the two new vessels are currently being built at GHK-owned shipyard MV Werften in Germany for the fast-growing Asian cruise market. “We are very appreciative of KfW IPEX-Bank, the bank consortium, the Federal Republic of Germany, the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Finnvera for supporting GHK in the financing of the Global Class ships,” said Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay, chief executive of Genting Hong Kong.
Mogadishu
Qatar has established an investment partnership with Somalia to build a new port in the latter's country. The Ministry of Transport and Communications in Qatar said that the partnership between Qatar Ports Management Company (Mwani) and Somalia will see the construction of the Hobyo Port in the Mudug region of central Somalia. Hobyo Port is expected to bring multiple economic benefits for Somalia. The port could create new business opportunities for the country by bolstering the commercial relationship with new markets in Africa and providing access to global markets, in addition to providing maritime services to vast areas in Somalia. The Hobyo Port is in proximity to the Bab al-Mandab Strait, one of the world’s most important sea crossing points. Hobyo is also important due to its location in the Mudug region, which links the south and north of the country.