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The fishing vessel 'María Cristina' from Laxe ran aground near Cabo Vilán on June 10, withs two crew members on board. Both were rescued in good condition by the 'A Fervenza' (MMSI: 224329790), which transoported them to Camariñas for medical observation. TheCCS Fisterra of Salvamento Marítimo mobilized the 'Salvamar Altair' and the rescue boat 'Carmé' of the Cruz Roja in Coruña to monitor the grounding site. The 'Carmé' managed to pull the ship off the rocks. A water ingress could be controlled, and the 'Salvamar Altair' towed the ship to Camariñas. Report with photo: https://x.com/salvamentogob/status/1932470537521070564

On June 6, 2025, at 6.10 a.m., the 'Elbsky' , en route from Rotterdam to Klaipdeda, allided with the central wall in the New Southern Lock upon entering the Kiel Canal in Brunsbüttel during the mooring manoever. The ship suffered scratches and a dent in the bulwark at port side. A segment of the central wall shifted slightly towards the New North Lock, causing parts of the masonry to break away. The maintenance shaft of the lock wall also shifted sideways, compromising the shaft's stability. No one was injured, no polution was repoirted,, and the ship did not suffer water ingress. The 'Elbsky' was able to continue its voyage to the port of destination, where it arrived on June 7. The Brunsbüttel Water Police did not impose a sailing ban, but continued its investigation into the cause of the accident.

The number of coronavirus cases aboard the USS 'Kidd' rose to 64 as the Navy destroyer pulled into port at San Diego on April 28, 2020, to get medical care for the crew and to disinfect and decontaminate the ship. The 'Kidd' was the second Navy ship to have an outbreak of the disease while at sea, the other being the USS 'Theodore Roosevelt', an aircraft carrier that has been docked at Guam for a month and has more than 900 sailors with confirmed cases of COVID-19, but the entire crew has now been tested. The Navy has moved swiftly to get the 'Kidd''s crew ashore. That was a point of contention with the 'Roosevelt', whose skipper, Capt. Brett Crozier, felt compelled to write to several other commanders pleading for more urgent Navy action to protect his crew of nearly 5,000. Crozier was then relieved of command for what the Navy's top civilian official at the time, Thomas Modly, called poor judgment. Modly resigned several days later, and the Navy is now seeking higher-level approval to reverse his move and restore Crozier to command. The Navy said that 63% of the 'Kidd''s crew of more than 300 had been tested as of April 28. One sailor was medically evacuated to the United States on April 22 after experiencing shortness of breath. Fifteen were transferred to another ship with a medical facility for closer observation of symptoms. Sailors being removed from the 'Kidd' at San Diego will be isolated with twice-daily medical screenings. Crew members who have tested negative will enter quarantine for a period of observation, with military health professionals monitoring them for symptoms. Also, a small contingent of sailors who tested negative will remain on the ship for essential services and deep cleaning. The cleaning is expected to take two weeks. The destroyer had been off the Pacific coast of Central American doing counter-narcotics operations. The Navy said no deployed ships currently have known coronavirus cases aboard. 13 ships that previously had one or more active cases while in port have zero cases now.

The Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft shipyard a which had been operating at a loss for some time, filed for self-administered insolvency on April 24. The goal of the shipyard’s filing was to permit it to start afresh. The future of Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft in the medium term was in building Ro-Ro ferries, according to the message delivered by the management at a workers meeting on Sunday April 26. The move is specifically designed to allow the company to start from fresh without existing contractual obligations to customers and suppliers. Though an administrator will be brought in from outside the company, the company management will continue to control the business which is a different process to bankruptcy in German law. Investor Lars Windhorst is prepared to put money into the business through his Tennor Holding investment vehicle. Tennor Holding took 100% control of the yard in 2019. He has said, however, that the money should not be used on loss making contracts. The former majority owner Siem Industries is interested in contracting 4 further Ro-Ro ferries from the yard. Siem recently took delivery of LIEKUT, the eighth of a series of vessels built by FSG for the company to charter out. FSG had been making significant losses for a number of years. The Siem group acquired the company for a token €1 back in November 2014 after severe liquidity problems. Those losses massively increased in recent years, however, with the yard losing an eye watering €111m in 2018. The hugely increased losses were due in part to delivery delays with Irish Ferries 'W.B. Yeats' and the subsequent penalty payments made to Irish Continental Group (ICG). The agreed contract price to build the 'W.B. Yeats' is understood to have left little to no margin for the yard in the first place.

On June 10, 2025, at 4.15 p.m. the medical evacuation of a 3-year-old boy was requested by the medical service on the 'Majestic', sailing between Barcelona and Tangier, about 57 nautical miles east of Castelló, due to his serious condition due to respiratory problems. The CCS Tarragona of Salvamento Marítimo mobilized the SAR helicopter Helimer 213, which hoisted the boy at 6 p.m. and transported him along with his father to the Reus Airport, where an ambulance was waiting after the arrival at around 6:40 p.m. Te ambulance transported them to the Sant Joan Hospital.

On May 28, 2025, the 'Elfin Safarov' was detained in Elevsis with seven deficiencies, five of which being regarded as seriously and grounds for a detention: 1) Pollution Prevention - Ballast Water Management System Not properly maintained 2) Pollution Prevention - Oil filtering equipment Not properly maintained 3) Pollution Prevention - Sewage treatment plant Not as required 4) Propulsion and auxiliary machinery - Auxiliary machinery Not as required 5) ISM - Ism certificate Not as required The vessel was released again on May 3, left the port enroute to Sulina and dropped anchor in pos. 45° 23' N 029° 04' E on June 6. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063576908591

The American destroyer USS 'Kidd' returned to Everett after nearly 50 crew members aboard were tested positive for coronavirus as of April 27, 2020. This was the second reported outbreak of COVID-19 aboard a US Navy vessel at sea. After concerns were raised about cases aboard the USS 'Theodore Roosevelt', one sailor assigned to that ship died from coronavirus complications. Roughly half the crew members on the USS 'Kidd' have been tested for the virus, and some have been evacuated. 45% of the ship have been tested for COVID-19, with 47 total positive results. Two Sailors have been medically evacuated. 15 sailors have been transferred to USS 'Makin Island (LHD 8)' for monitoring due to persistent symptoms. None were in the ICU or on ventilators. Sailors aboard the USS 'Kidd' were wearing PPE and N95 masks. Initial COVID-19 testing of sailors from the USS 'Theodore Roosevelt' were now complete, there are 955 active cases, along with 14 recovered cases. The USS 'Kidd' was on a counter narcotics mission' when ait was reported at least 18 crew had fallen ill with the virus.

The chairman of the board of Grenaa Shipyard, Esben Møller, was deeply affected by the violent gas explosion on the dredger 'Grete Fighter', which injured three employees on April 23, 2020. The cause is still unknown. Shipyard chairman deeply affected by accide. "We have never experienced anything like it here, ”says Esben Møller. The accident happened shortly after lunch break when the employees were on their way back to the ship, which was in the shipyard in connection with a 5 year revision. On the way to the ship's tank system there was a huge explosion. Two men have reached the bottom of the ship, while the one closest to the exit was being helped out. Police and fire departments were alerted at 9.35 a.m., and shipyard and ship crews quickly reached the two at the bottom of the ship, which were most severely affected by the explosion, but were unable to rescue them. But they stayed with them until the fire department and the ambulance arrived. According to police, the three severely injured people who were flown to Rigshospitalet are a 31-year-old man from Norddjurs, a 53-year-old man from Syddjurs and a 50-year-old man from West Funen. "I don't know about their situation anymore, other than it's very serious," Esben Møller said. The accident is now being investigated by the police and the Labor Inspectorate. The 'Grete Fighter', which is owned by Peter Madsen Rederi, was in the yard for a five-year inspection. According to Grenaa Shipyard, on the ship various steel works were to be carried out, measurements of screw shaft and rudder, full service of auxiliary and main engine, dismantling of bottom and bilge valves and a full coating of bottom and bulwark. In addition, the old excavator had to be dismantled in favour of a new one.

The "Canarias Express", which was drifting as close to 2.4 miles off Lobos Island, in the Strait of La Bocayna, en route to Arrecife, Lanzarote, was taken in tow by the SAR vessel "Guardamar Polimnia" (IMO: 9541679,), which was mobilized byx the CCS of Salvamento Marítimo in Las Palmas, and prevented it from drifting further towards the coast. The tug VB Achamán" ( IMO: 8615617) of the Boluda Towage fleet in Lanzarote, was mobilized and towed it to the port of Arrecife, where it arrived on June 10 at 4.50 p.m. UTC. Report with photos and video: https://www.puentedemando.com/primer-incidente-del-buque-con-ro-canarias-express-tras-el-cambio-de-bandera-a-portugal/?fbclid=IwY2xjawK2DDtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvJSy2AIN19m1gUOAOalmXv0TbtmDxWs9M5IIWPVqAg7hTdfH-J_6Jq0BRnk_aem_vCC3JPbSOQkV1Zdnvm65vw https://x.com/i/status/1932440046637830169

On June 3, 2025, the Alsterdiep' was detained in Setubal with three deficiencies, two of which being regarded as seriously and grounds for a detention: 1) Propulsion and auxiliary machinery - Propulsion main engine Not as required 2) ISM - Ism certificate Not as required The vessel was released again on June 5 and left the port en route to Sheerness with an ETA as of June 11. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063576908591

The 'AIDAblu' made a brief stopover yesterday in Marseille on April 26, 2020, to embark several hundred crew members of one of his sisterships, the 'AIDAsol', which has been moored in the port for 1,5 months. The transfer took place to facilitate the repatriation of AIDA personnel via Germany. The 'AIDAblu' set sail again in the afternoon. At the same time, another cruise ship which had been berthed in Marseille since last month, the 'Europa 2' of Hapag-Lloyd Cruises, set sail to also return to Germany, its arrival in Hamburg was scheduled for May 2. The Marseille areas now hosted six cruise ships, the 'Costa Smeralda', 'MSC Magnifica' and 'AIDAsol', 'Le Boréal', 'L’Austral' and 'Le Lyrial'. The repatriation operations of the international personnel of these ships was still in progress, in particular via flights chartered by the owners. This was particularly the case for the crew members of the 'MSC Magnifica', which arrived on April 20 and who also landed 4 tonnes of food surplus, donated to local associations to help the most disadvantaged.

More than 1,000 sailors aboard the aircraft carrier 'Charles de Gaulle' have tested positive for COVID-19, a number that could continue to surge as the crew awaits approximately 930 more test results. The outbreak onboard the French navy’s flagship forced leadership to call off the remaining two weeks of the carrier’s scheduled deployment to the North Atlantic. The ship, which carries a crew of nearly 1,800, pulled into port last week at Toulon Naval Base in southern France. In all, 1,081 crew members from the Charles de Gaulle naval group have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. That total comes almost entirely from the carrier, and includes at least two U.S. sailors who were assigned to the ship as part of the U.S. Navy’s Personnel Exchange Program. The American sailors have since been removed from the ship and were receiving excellent host nation medical care at French facilities. The declining health of one French sailor, meanwhile, necessitated a transfer to the intensive care unit. Partially complicating the early detection process onboard the 'Charles de Gaulle' was the rate of asymptomatic carriers. Of the confirmed cases, nearly half showed no symptoms. Additionally, masks were not made available until late in the ship’s deployment. T The debilitating spread of the virus onboard France’s lone carrier, has sparked concern about the nation’s ability to remain ready to fight. Unlike the U.S. Navy, which touts 10 other active carriers in addition to the coronavirus-stricken USS 'Theodore Roosevelt', losing the 'Charles de Gaulle' for an extended period could cripple France’s nuclear deterrence capabilities.