The CCS of Salvamento Marítimo in Las Palmas coordinated the rescue of 151 migrants from three boats on Aoril 16, 2024, at dawn. The 'Salvamar Macondo' and the SAR helicopter Helimer 201 assisted 45 people. They were transferred to Arguineguín. The 'Salvamar Izar' rescued 59 people. They were disembarked in Gran Tarajal. The 'Salvamar Al Nair' rescued 48 people, who were transferred to Arrecife. Video: https://twitter.com/i/status/1780144279949541515
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GUARDAMAR CALIOPE
On April 16 the 'Guardamar Calíope' has carried out the rescue of the occupants of thre inflatable boats off Arrecife. Rescued were 161 migrants, 50 in the first, 53 in the second and 58 people in the third boat. They have been disembarked at 10:00 a.m. Canary Islands time in Arrecife. The response was coordinated by the RCC of Salvamento Marítimo in Las Palmas. Photo: https://twitter.com/salvamentogob/status/1780188257180918204
Port Hedland
Thirty-eight vessels at anchor off Port Hedland, waiting to load iron ore.
Agaete
In a ruling last week, the Court of Justice of the EU rejected an appeal presented by Fred. Olsen S.A. over a sentence dictated by the General Courts of the EU in March 2018, whereby the continued exclusive use of the Port of Agaete on the Island of Gran Canary, by Fred. Olsen, constituted a subsidy by the Government of the Canary Islands to said shipping line.
SALVAMAR DENEB
On April 15 at 9:00 p.m. the CCS Santander of Salvamento Marítimo was notified about a fishing boat with 16 people on board near Punta Rebollera (San Vicente de la Barquera) with engine problems. The 'Salvamar Deneb' wass mobilized to assist and towed it to Santoña, where it arrived on April 16 at 7:35 a.m. Photo: https://twitter.com/salvamentogob/status/1780150282095095962
SALVAMAR SPICA
On April 16, 2024, the 'Salvamar Spica' rescued 18 North African migrants 14 nautical miles southeast of Mesa Roldan. They were disembarked at 1:10 p.m. in Almería. The response was coordinated by the RCC of Salvamento Marítimo in Almería. Photo: https://twitter.com/salvamentogob/status/1780199983423058006
Cancun
Two identical 37-metre, 459-passenger catamarans have been completed by Wight Shipyard Co (WSC). The Incat Crowther-designed vessels will be transported to Cancun, Mexico, for Ultramar early next month.
Rotterdam
The first paperless, instantly financed and fully door-to-door tracked container made its way from Korea to the warehouse of Samsung SDS in Tilburg via Port of Rotterdam on blockchain-based platform DELIVER. ABN AMRO, Port of Rotterdam and Samsung SDS demonstrated that blockchain technology enables interoperability, and that integrated container tracking and tracing, required cargo documentation processing and financing can all be done in a trusted, secure and paperless way.
SALVAMAR ALPHERATZ
On April 16, a fishing vessel located a cayuco with migrants eight nautical miles southwest of Punta Rasca (Tenerife). The 'Salvamar Alpheratz' was mmobilized to assist and accompanied the cayuco to Los Cristianos, where the 91 sub-Saharan people disembarked, among them 44 men, 17 women and 30 minors. The response was coordinated by the RCC of Salvamento Maítimo in Tenerife. Photo: https://twitter.com/salvamentogob/status/1780183060761186788
SALVAMAR SUHAIL
The Spanish flagged motor yacht 'Francisco y Cata' (MMSI:224569340)suffered an engine failure and went adrift three nautical miles from the mouth of the Rota marina on April 16, 2024, and requested towing assistance. The CCS Cádiz of Salvamnto Marítimo mobilized the 'Salvamar Suhail', which safely pulled the boat to Rota. Photos: https://twitter.com/salvamentogob/status/1780308539812073907
Marseille
On 27 June the Corsican Parliament officially approved the upcoming 15-month public ferry service between Marseille and the island, starting on 1 October 2019.
Dar es-Salaam
In one of the biggest pushbacks against Chinese president Xi Jinping’s Belt Road Initiative Tanzania has suspended the construction of the $10bn Bagamoyo port project, citing the onerous financial conditions put in place by Beijing. The project, which broke ground four years ago and was set to be run by China Merchants Holding International, would have been the largest port in East Africa. Tanzania’s president John Magufuli has accused the Chinese project backers of presenting “exploitative and awkward” terms in exchange for financing. Chinese financiers set “tough conditions that can only be accepted by mad people,” Magufuli told local media. “They told us once they build the port, there should be no other port to be built all the way from Tanga to Mtwara south,” Magufuli told a delegation of business people at State House in Dar es Salaam earlier this month. “They want us to give them a guarantee of 33 years and a lease of 99 years, and we should not question whoever comes to invest there once the port is operational. They want to take the land as their own but we have to compensate them for drilling construction of that port,” he said. Magufuli also said the new Bagamoyo port risked undermining the ongoing $522m expansion of Dar es Salaam port that would enable it to triple its current capacity when complete by the end of this year. Source : Splash247