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The three vessels deployed for the recovery of the "Northguider" will soon be back in Longyearbyen. . On Aug 14 at 7 p.m. the "Union Bear", "Cormorant" and "Multratug 18" passed the northern tip of Prins Karls Forland which means they had to cancel the operation and return without completing the assignment. A pilot was ordered for Aug 15, 11 a.m. Over the weekend, extra equipment was delivered to the Hinlopen Street as an urgent assignment, which may indicate that not everything has gone according to plan. The ice forecasts made the salvors decide to leave the area. They do not want ice packing in the area around the salvage ships. The return to Longyearbyen meant that the project was now losing precious time. Reports with photo and video: https://www.nrk.no/hordaland/hevinga-av-_northguider_-har-starta-1.14661162 https://www.spitsbergen-svalbard.com/2019/08/13/grounded-shrimp-trawler-northguider-salvaging-operation-has-started.html https://www.kystogfjord.no/nyheter/forsiden/Tar-pause-paa-Svalbard

arrived Bhavnagar Anchorage 15.08.19

Moves are afoot for a new multi-billion-rand liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage and regasification terminal to be established at the port of Richards Bay by 2024, but state-owned Transnet wants the private sector to be the main investor and operator of the facility. The plan was revealed on Tuesday as Transnet announced the signing of a cost-sharing agreement with the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) to jointly fund a feasibility study into the terminal project. The IFC has committed $2 million (around R28 million) as part of the cost-sharing agreement. The move comes as Transnet looks to bolster South Africa’s LNG infrastructure, both at the country’s ports and within its pipelines business.

Ships could continue to be turned away from Napier Port for the next few days as an "unprecendented" swell hammers Hawke's Bay. Clifton Beach was closed by Hastings District Council on Wednesday and Napier City Council closed the Marine Parade viewing platform after tourists were drenched by a heaving sea on Wednesday morning. MetService meteorologist Tui McInnes said a slow building pressure system out to the east of Hawke's Bay had ramped up the seas, causing swells of close to 4m. McInnes said the 4m swells had the potential to "cause a bit of havoc on the coast" as it could possibly continue until Saturday morning. "The main thing that is causing the big waves is the easterly winds that are occur. "With a large space and a slow build-up it leaves time for some quite nice swells to develop," McInnes said. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12252333

On Aug 15, 2019, at 5 a.m. a person wasjumped overboard from the "Baltic Queen" in Mariehamn. The ship's staff sounded alarm after seeing a person jump in the water when the ship was in port. They threw down a lifebuoy and managed to get the person into one of the ship's lifeboats. A patrol boat also came quickly to the scene. The person was taken to the Åland Central Hospital for care.

After 13 Ton sea 147 migrants aboard the "Open Arms" were permitted to embark in Italy by a court in the Latium region after an appeal on Aug 14. The ship headed to Lampedusa now where it anchored off the port. In the evening five migrants with acute health problems were allowed on shore accompanied by four helpers.

Hong Kong-based Dream Cruises’ World Dream cruise ship made its first port call to Keelung on July 8 and tourism operators have said that the port could receive a visit by Royal Caribbean International’s new Spectrum of the Seas in 2021. With gross tonnage (GT) of 151,300, the World Dream is the largest ship ever to visit Keelung Port, the Keelung Harbor Bureau said on Sunday, July 21. Tourism operators have said that the 169,379GT Spectrum of the Seas could set a new record if it makes an anticipated port call in 2021.

Bangladesh has become the top dumping ground for discarded ships in the world with the country dismantling the highest number of vessels in the first half (January-June) of the current year, according to a report of the NGO Shipbreaking Platform, a leading NGO coalition campaigning for clean and safe ship recycling.

In the afternoon of Aug 14 the crane "Berl" of the Hye N.V. started salvaging the three containers from the Brussels-Scheldt Sea Canal which fell into the water the previous evening when the "Amélie V" allided with the Boulevard Bridge on the border of Willebroek and Ruisbroek (Puurs). During the salvage, shipping traffic did not have to be stopped, nor did traffic get in the way. Both the local police of Mechelen-Willebroek and the shipping police as well as the Rivierenland fire brigade had attended the scene. One container could be pulled to the quay just in time by the fire fighters and fastened there with ropes. Then they located the sunken containers and pushed them aside so that ship traffic was no longer hampered. Reports with photos and video: https://www.hln.be/in-de-buurt/willebroek/firma-gestart-met-berging-van-in-water-gevallen-container-na-aanvaring-met-brug~aa7fb21e/ https://m.gva.be/cnt/dmf20190814_04558865/berging-van-gezonken-containers-op-zeekanaal-begonnen

arrived Alang Anchorage 15.08.19

Two more cruise ships bypassed scheduled stops in san Juan as demonstrators have been calling for the resignation of Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló. The loss of tourism is impacting the island's economy. Tourism officials said the two ships would have generated a $1.3 million economic impact. Officials estimated the island missed out on a combined $760,000 from the Seaside and Equinox on Monday

The Portuguese government announced an investment of 547 million euros in the expansion of the Port of Sines in the southwest of the country and an agreement to extend its concession from 2029 to 2049. The agreement was reached last week between Portugal and PSA Singapore for the completion of the 3rd phase of expansion of Terminal XXI, so as to greatly increase its capacity and give another 20 years of operations in Portugal to PSA Singapore. The Sines port, 58 nautical miles south of Lisbon, is one of the major European ports and the great hub port of the Iberian-Atlantic front.