The 'Eagle S' has brought fuel covered by sanctions against Russia into Finnish waters, but there will be no criminal investigation, Customs said. The cargo includes unleaded gasoline and diesel, both of which are covered by sanctions against Russia. The Finnish Customs' Economic Crime Investigation Unit has therefore initiated a preliminary investigation to investigate whether the 'Eagle S' has violated sanctions legislation. Now it has been announced that there will be no criminal investigation. Although the ship brought in sanctioned goods, it was not done intentionally, but rather the ship entered Finnish territorial waters because the authorities urged the crew to do just that. The Deputy Prosecutor General has also been consulted in the case. The cargo will be detained by Customs until further notice. On Jan 15, the shipowner lost a bid to take back the ship's anchor, which Finnish authorities found on the seabed near the cable breaks. Finland's National Bureau of Investigation believes that it has evidence connecting the 'Eagle S' to the outage, when Fingrid's EstLink 2 power transmission cable and four subsea telecom cables suddenly shut down. The vessel would have caused more cable damage within 12 minutes if it had not been stopped. Possible additional targets could have included the Estlink 1 subsea cable and the Balticconnector gas pipeline, which was previously hit by an anchor-drag incident in 2023. Shortly after the anchor was recovered and brought ashore for forensic analysis, the vessel's attorney filed a court appeal to force the police to release it to the shipowner, the UAE-based Caravella LLC FZ. Herman Ljungberg, counsel for Caravella, told YLE that Finnish police had no jurisdiction over the vessel or her anchor. Since both were in international waters at the time they were taken into custody, he asserted, Finland's law enforcement reach did not extend to either. The court disagreed with this interpretation and ruled in favour of the NBI, and the anchor will remain in custody. The bureau's attorneys argued successfully that Finnish law gives them jurisdiction when international acts target Finland,for example, when a ship cuts an international cable that connects to Finnish soil. Ljungberg said that he would appeal the matter to the Court of Appeal and attempt to regain full control of the ship and the lost anchor. If the legal process takes too long, the 'Eagle S' may get trapped in the Baltic Sea's ice season, and would be exposed to conditions for which the vessel was not designed; given that the ship costs about $15,000 per day in upkeep, The anonymous single-ship holding company may simply abandon her and walk away. Even if the owner leaves the ship behind and stops paying for wages and operating expenses, the nine crew members who are suspected of involvement in the cable incident must remain. They are confined to the ship and are under a travel ban to prevent them from leaving the country while the inquiry continues.
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NELLY
When a tanker truck was supplying the 'Elly' at the Oldenburg dam, an overflow"occurred via the tank ventilation of the vessel in the area of the bow. Around 100 liters of diesel fuel leaked out. This spread over the gangway. Around 30 liters got into the water and contaminated the surface for at least one kilometer across the entire width of the Hunte river. The lock to the coastal canal and the Hunte shipping lane were closed to shipping traffic at 1:42 p.m. by the Bremen traffic control center, as oil booms had to be laid across the entire width of the Hunte at the level of the railway bridge and the agricultural trade pier. The on-call judge ordered the master to provide security as part of criminal proceedings relating to an environmental offense. He had incorrectly estimated the tank capacity. The vessel was banned from sailing due to significant technical defects by the investigating officials. Report with photo: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/oldenburg_ostfriesland/Binnenschiffer-tankt-100-Liter-zu-viel-Diesel-fliesst-in-Hunte,aktuelloldenburg17842.html
ECO LEVANT
On Jan 16, 2025, at 01:02 a.m. the 'Eco Levant', en route from Antwerp towards Kiel, suffered an engine failure during the eastbound transit of the Kiel Canal and veered off course at Breiholz. The ship got sutck on the northern embankment near the pilot station in Rüstersbergen (Lat. 54.2386 Lng. 9.6088). The tug 'Holtenau' (IMO: 8200321) was mobilized from Kiel before 2 a.m, and the tug 'Fairplay 66' (IMO: 9036258) left Brunsbüttel at around 4 a.m. UTC, but could be stood down once the ship was floating again and returned to its base. The canal was completely closed after the grounding and the canal authority was not even letting any ships enter. 20 ships were affected during their canal transit and stopped their respective voyages on both sides of the incident site. At 8 a.m. the 'Eco Levant' could be refloated by the 'Holtenau' and berthed in the heavy load port of Rendsburg-Osterrönfeld at 9.20 a.m., where officers of the water police boarded the ship for further investigations. It continued the voyage the same night at 10 p.m. after repairs to the technical defect of the hydraulic system and the re-confirmation of its class by the monitoring classification society DNVGL with an ETA at the port of destination as of Jan 19. Reports, photos and video: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/schleswig-holstein/NOK-Containerschiff-bei-Breiholz-in-Boeschung-gelaufen,containerschiff560.html https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/schleswigholstein/ndr-nok-containerschiff-bei-breiholz-in-boeschung-gelaufen-100.html https://lomazoma.com/nord-ostsee-kanal-schiff-in-uferboeschung-getrieben/ https://www.mopo.de/im-norden/schleswig-holstein/havarie-im-norden-containerriese-stellt-sich-auf-kanal-quer-vollsperrung/ https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/3799247?navList=gallery&category=39&page=1&viewType=normal&sortBy=newest https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/3799246?navList=gallery&category=39&page=1&viewType=normal&sortBy=newest
Hodeidah
The Port of Hodeidah in western Yemen in areas controlled by the Houthi militants resumed operations late on July 23, 2024, after the Israeli strikes on July 20. Several military targets were hit in the port city. The strike was in retaliation for hundreds of attacks carried out against the state of Israel in recent months. Oil storage facilities havebeen hit, as well as a power plant. The Ministry of Health said that 80 people were wounded in a preliminary toll of the strikes, most of them with severe burns. Other health officials said the strikes killed a number of people and wounded others, but didn't elaborate. Reports indicated significant damage in parts of the port while Houthi officials insisted that the port is now operating normally. Two ships arrived at the port. Both vessels were coming from Djibouti. Records indicated the 'Brother 1' and 'Marsa Zenith' are each managed by companies based in Dubai.At least three of the port’s cranes were damaged and not operational. Five port cranes were reported to be operating. There are also unconfirmed reports of damage to the port’s warehouses.
Chittagong
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Chittagong
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Recife
An accident occurred with a ship loader at the sugar terminal in the port of Recife on April 19, 2024. The loader collapsed. and a part of the machine fell into the cargo hold of a ship that was docked at the port to load raw sugar. No one was injured. Experts were assessing the situation. and there was no timeline yet for repairs. The collapsed ship loader was the only one at the terminal, run by Sindacucar. There were currently three vessels waiting to load 71,000 metric tons of raw sugar at the port. The buyers of the sugar were Louis Dreyfus, Tate & Lyle and ASR, destined for the United States and Portugal. The port was evaluating ways to complete loading of the currently docked vessel, as well as alternatives to loading any other vessels.
