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ZTo comply with New Zealand’s biosecurity measures for ships’ hull biofouling , P&O Cruises Australia had to inspect the 'Pacific Adventure'‘s hull 30 days before entering New Zealand and obtain clearance from the New Zealand Ministry of Primary Industries. The recent inspection results revealed the need for hull cleaning, which was a surprise to P&O Cruises Australia as the hull had been cleared in a previous inspection a few months prior. The cleaning operation will take place in deep water off the east coast of New Zealand and will be weather-dependent. It means that guests will be forced to spend several days at sea during their cruise, which had been scheduled to visit various ports around New Zealand. The revised itinerary for the cruise has several modifications to the original plan. On Feb 3, 2023, the ship will depart from Sydney as originally planned. However, over the next several days, the cruise ship will spend significant time at sea, and some ports of call are being moved or canceled. On Feb 6, the ship will be at sea, while it was previously scheduled to be in Fjordland National Park, New Zealand. The following two days, Feb 7 and Feb 8, will be spent offshore in the Bay of Plenty for hull cleaning instead of visiting Dunedin and Christchurch.On Feb 9 and 10, P&O Cruises swapped the visits to Napier and Wellington. There will be two days at sea, followed by a stop in Port Chalmers, New Zealand, on Feb 12 instead of Auckland. On Feb 13, the 'Pacific Adventure' will do some scenic cruising in Fiordland, which was previously planned to be a day in the Bay of Islands. Finally, the ship will return to Sydney on Feb 16. Due to the changes to the itinerary passengers were offered a $300 per person onboard credit and a Future Cruise Credit to the value of 25% of the current cruise fare paid. Guests who cancel the trip will receive a Future Cruise Credit for 100% of the cruise fare paid.

Boat phone calls were coming through repeaters in Arrecife and Punta Mujeres in the afternoon of Feb 2, 2023. A Sasemar 103 surveillance aircraft was mobilized, which located a distressed boaat 5,8 nautical miles northeastt of Arrecife. The 'Guardamar Caliope' attended the scene and rescued 43 Maghrebi people, among them one woman, and transferred them to La Cebolla in Arrecife.

The Port of Kiel expects another good season in 2023, resulting in 218 cruise calls, said its MD Dirk Claus in the morning of Jan 17, 2023, as part of a presentation reflecting on last year's results. It follows 2022's record-breaking 244 calls, which saw the port handle over 2.24m passengers, 836,000 of those from cruise vessels. The number of calls in 2019 was 37% less by comparison, numbering 178, and passenger volumes 4.1% lower. 2020 had been forecast to become a record season for Kiel, with 200 calls and 880,000 passengers, but aspirations were dashed owing to the pandemic. This year, a number of larger vessels are scheduled to arrive at Kiel on multiple occasions making the gross tonnage of arriving ships similar to 2022. For 2023, the choice of routes and destinations approached from Kiel will be slightly broader. Moving into the future, Claus expects Kiel to settle on between 200 and 250 cruise calls annually. According to the port, last year’s promising results were the result of ‘intense planning’ with international cruise operators. While 11 calls were cancelled owing to the conflict in Ukraine and the resulting loss of St Petersburg from itineraries, nine were newly added as a result of rerouting by operators. Looking ahead, there will be a strong focus on greener shipping with Claus hoping that between 60 and 100 calls can be supplied with green shore power this year. He stated that Kiel will continue to look at strengthening shore power in line with its corporate sustainability strategy to lower carbon emissions. Work on the new Ostuferhafen shore power plant is expected to conclude towards the end of this year, resulting in Kiel being able to offer shoreside connectivity at all its ferry and cruise terminals from 2024. Along with this €17m investment, a further €2m will be invested to install solar arrays. The systems, which will be fitted on roofs at Kiel Port, are intended to cover up to 30% of the port's electricity requirements in the long term.  Kiel’s first call is expected to arrive April 7 with the river vessel 'Frederic Chopin'. The first cruise ship of the season, Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines’ 'Balmoral', will arrive a week later.  The largest ships to call will be 'MSC Euribia' and 'AIDAnova'. At the other end of the scale, the 'Ocean Majesty' will visit Kiel on six occasions while chartered to Hansa Touristik. The vessel, which celebrates its 57th anniversary this year, is popular with the German source market. One of its calls is scheduled to occur on June 18 during the Kieler Woche sailing festival which will run from June 17-25. Traditionally, this marks the peak of the cruise season with this year no exception: 22 calls are expected by Kiel at the same time as the event takes place. While the highest number of calls is expected between mid-April and the end of September as usual, some ships will continue to call later in the year. 'AIDAnova'’s last departure is scheduled for November 4 whilst December 20 will see Phoenix Reisen's 'Amera' arrive at Kiel as part of a pre-Christmas itinerary. The season will draw to a close a few days later with the 'Spirit of Discovery' on December 29. Costa-, AIDA-, MSC- and TUI Cruises will again be the port's largest cruise customers. The majority of calls account for turnarounds serving the German-speaking source markets, but a number of transit calls will also take place, P&O Cruises’ Britannia, Swiss Ruby, Holland America Line’s 'Nieuw Statendam' and Regent Seven Seas Cruises’ 'Seven Seas Splendor' among them. As in previous years, the Ostuferhafen outside the city centre will be heavily utilised by MSC Cruises and most other cruise ships will arrive at the Ostseekai. 

The Crimean Bridge across Kerch Strait suffered an explosion and fire in the morning of Oct 8, 2022. Two spans of the motorway bridge collapsed and fell into the water, the railway bridge above the motorway witha cargo train including railway car tanks with fuel, was on fire. All bridge traffic was suspended. The Crimean Bridge was more than a Bridge, both for Russia and Ukraine. For Russia it was a symbol of the Russian “victory” and historical justice. For the Ukraine, it was a symbol of the Russian aggression and Crimea occupation. The navigation span of the Bridge is yet undamaged, and therefore, the Kerch Strait Channel remained navigable. The Kerch Strait Transit is from now on, however, a risky undertaking, so all ship owners are advised to calculate risks and probably, change their ships voyages, avoiding Azov sea calls.

On Feb 1, 2023,, King Willem-Alexander, Queen Máxima and Princess Amalia were visited by the Zr.Ms. 'Holland', brought from Aruba to Curaçao. However, they arrived an hour later than planned due to technical problems the patrol vessel was experiencing. The king, queen and crown princess have been in the Caribbean part of the Kingdom since Jan 29. After a visit to Bonaire, the members of the royal family arrived in Aruba on Jan 30. In the morning of Feb 2 they boarded the Zr.Ms. 'Holland' for a crossing of (originally) about five hours to Curaçao. The problems were related to one of the propeller shafts. The ship can only sail on one propeller shaft of the two, which meant that the planned speed could not be achieved.

An explosion occurred on board of the 'Oriental Glory' at the Nosco ShipYard, Hai Phong, in the morning of Feb 2, 2023. Eight workers were hospitalized with injures and burns. The ship has been under maintenance since Jan 31.

On Dec 1, 2022, at about 3 p.m. the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) was informed that 15 empty containers at Keppel Terminal had fallen from the wharf into the water as a result of strong winds during a squall. There were no reported injuries and no immediate impact to port operations. The MPA deployed two patrol crafts to monitor and cordon off the affected area to facilitate recovery work by PSA Corporation Ltd. MPA’s Port Operations Control Centre has restricted all vessel movements in the vicinity of Keppel Terminal until the containers were recovered.

For the fourth day in a row, Iranian-made drones attacked Odesa on Sep 26 in the morning, this time against military targets and without civilian casualties. On Sep 23, two civilians were killed during Russian drone attacks on the port city. On Sep 25, Odesa was attacked by three drones, one of which was reportedly shot down by Ukrainian forces. Ukraine has not officially identified the drones, but from the video footage below it appears, according to experts, that they are Iranian-produced Shakhed 136 drones.

On Fb 2, 2023, the pleasure boat 'Meimei' went adrift due to a motor defect with three people on board in front of Pinedo. The crew requested towing assistance, and the CCS Valencia of Salvamento Marítimo mobilized the 'Salvamar Pollux', which safely pulled the boat to the Marina Real in Valencia.

Five men aged between 28 and 41 have been charged with manslaughter on board the 'L.1 Inger Katrine' at a constitutional hearing at the Court in Holstebro, when the ship was in the North Sea. The five men are charged with having killed a sixth man by punching and kicking in association and by prior agreement on Jan 28, 2023, on board the 'L.1 Inter Katrine' 60 nautical miles west of Thyborøn,. They are charged under Section 237 of the Criminal Code, which can result in imprisonment from five years to lifelong. It appeared from the charges that signs of strangulation were found on the deceased man. In addition, there were broken tongue bones, bleeding in the neck muscles, many lesions on the body and face, broken vertebrae, scattered bleeding and point-shaped bleeding in the eyes. The police received the call from the vessel on Jan 30 at 5.12, but due to the weather, the 'L.1 Inger Katrine' did not arrive in port until the evening of Feb 1. The lifeless man, a citizen of the Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality, had already been picked up by helicopter on Jan 30. The police found the death suspicious and were ready to arrest the five crew members when they reached port. The five men, aged 28, 28, 30, 39 and 41, all pleaded not guilty, but were willing to answer questions.

Russia's Ministry of Transport has set up a ferry service across the Kerch Strait to take over vehicle traffic, offsetting some of the impact of the damage to the Kerch Strait Bridge after a truck was blown up on the westbound road deck of the Kerch Strait Bridge on Oct 7 at about 6 a.m. Two spans of the westbound deck collapsed into the water, but the adjacent eastbound deck remained in place. The blast's timing coincided with the passage of a fuel train on the adjacent rail deck, and it ignited seven fuel tank cars, which burned for hours after the explosion. A Russian salvage diving team has arrived on the site and is completing an underwater survey of the damage, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin said Sunday. An above-water inspection process is already under way. Traffic had partially resumed on the bridge by late Saturday, though restricted by the extent of the damage. Russia's Ministry of Transport said that it also resumed suburban commuter rail service over the rail track, though not heavy freight trains. Two ferries are already in operation to provide a bypass route, and eight separate parking lots have been set up for temporary storage for cars and trucks waiting to make the crossing. Two more ferries will join the effort on Monday, the Yeysh and Mriya.

Yaizu Port is one of the leading fishing ports in Japan. In August 2022, the VesselTracker AIS receiving station opened at Yaizu Port.