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The 'Joseph Doyle' and a boat crew of the USCG Station San Juan assisted four mariners aboard the disabled 75-ft-m/v 'Sueño I', with four crew members on board, off Carolina, Puerto Rico, on July 30. The Dominican Republic nationals were on a voyage from Tortola to Saman, when the vessel suffered electrical problems and was disabled. Coast Guard watchstanders in San Juan received a distress communication reporting the 'Sueño I', which was adrift approximately 12 nautical miles northeast of Carolina, Puerto Rico. Coast Guard watchstanders issued an UMIB to alert vessel traffic in the vicinity of the ongoing distress situation. They also diverted the 'Joseph Doyle' to render assistance. Once on scene, the cutte crew established a tow of the 'Sueño I' to San Juan Harbor, where the boat crew took over the tow and brought the vessel to the safety of the Coast Guard Base San Juan, where it was moored. T crew made arrangements for repairs. Report with photo: https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/4260824/coast-guard-surface-units-assist-4-mariners-aboard-disabled-vessel-sueo-i-off-c/

On July 31, 2025, at around 3:00 p.m., the CROSS Jobourg received a Mayday alert that a semi-rigid pleasure craft was in distress and sinking off the Chausey archipelago. Since it was nearby, the "Jolie France" was immediately diverted to assist the vessel. The 11 shipwrecked people, including three who had fallen overboard, were safely recovered aboard the "Jolie France." They were taken to the dock in Granville and did not require medical assistance. At the same time, , the CROSS engaged the lifeboat 'SNS 17-12 - Notre Dame du Cap Lihou II' from the Granville SNSM station to tow the semi-rigid boat, as well as the 'SNS 719 - Père Delaby' from the SNSM station Chausey to recover the various debris at sea and the liferaft.

The shipbuilder Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (FSG) and the superyacht shipyard Nobiskrug Rendsburg have officially filed for insolvency on Dec 12, 2024, deepening the ongoing crisis for their parent company, Tennor Group, and its owner, Lars Windhorst. District courts in Flensburg and Neumünster have appointed the lawyers Christoph Morgen, Partner, Brinkmann & Partner and Hendrik Gittermann, Partner, REIMER as provisional insolvency administrators. The insolvency filings, submitted to the district courts in Flensburg and Neumünster, follow months of financial instability and reported mismanagement. The bleak reality of the situation became evident on Dec 9, when the SH public utility company threatened to cut off the power supply at the Rendsburg facility due to a lack of payments since Dec 1. No immediate action was taken because the federal police ship 'Neustadt' was still in the drydock for repairs. Workers at both firms are bearing the brunt of the crisis. The shipyards’ financial woes have left around 500 employees in limbo before Christmas, many of whom have already been laid off. At a recent rally in Flensberg, workers' union representatives alleged repeated delays in salary payments, including November wages and Christmas bonuses. Local sources report that Flensburg Works Council chairman Jan Brandt accused Windhorst of lying repeatedly and breaking promises of timely payments. Windhorst has become a target of criticism. He has been accused of mismanagement, poor communication and unfulfilled promises. In recent months, workers, unions and politicians have all demanded his resignation. Schleswig-Holstein’s Economics Minister, Claus Ruhe Madsen, called for Windhorst to face up to his responsibility and sell the shipyards or insolvency would clear the way for new investors. The Tennor Group took over the FSG in 2019, relaunching it as “FSG 2.0” without old debts or new orders. Despite repeated announcements of future projects, they failed to materialise, leaving the shipyard vulnerable. In 2021, FSG acquired the Rendsburg-based yard Nobiskrug as it filed for insolvency, but the acquisition has done little to alleviate the financial strain. In the summer 2024, the situation worsened as the German federal government withdrew a €62 million grant intended for the construction of liquefied gas bunker ships at FSG, citing Tennor’s inability to demonstrate sufficient equity capital. Now, the provisional insolvency administrators are working with the project managers of the RoRo ferry at FSG and the yacht Nobiskrug to resolve both projects. If necessary, the administrators plan to consult with federal and state governments about potential interim financing to bridge construction costs until client acceptance and payment. Meanwhile, they will explore further restructuring strategies for both shipyards. Insolvency pre-financing has also been arranged to secure financial recompense for the 340 workers at the Flensburg site and the 140 employees from the Rendsburg facility. This measure will cover payments through the end of Jan 2025, including the overdue November salaries.

As the 'Stena Adventurer' makes her way to Fishguard on Dec 11, Stena Line has now cancelled sailings to/from Holyhead up until the departure from Dublin on the afternoon of Dec 12. Irish Ferries have, so far, also cancelled all sailings on Dec 11. The port has been closed to SHIP traffic since the weekend when its infrastructure was damaged during the storm when the 'Ulysses' destroyed a dolphin. The port’s management has been surveying and addressing the damage since and it was previously indicated that crossings would be able to resume on Dec 10 from 6 p.m. However, underwater inspections in the port last night were hindered by bad weather, causing the resumption of sailings to be further delayed.

The US-sanctioned 'Bluebell' was now spoofing its position in Indonesia’s territorial waters. The tanker sailed into the area on July 16, 2025, indicating the navigational status as “at anchor” and then began location (GNSS) manipulation to obfuscate its true location. It then went dark on July 22, and stopped AIS transmittings in one of the world’s busiest maritime chokepoints, underscoring the escalating safety and maritime security risks to Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia from sanctioned and high-risk tankers loitering in waters near the Riau archipelago. The real location of the tanker was unknown. The 'Bluebell', formerly known as 'Cross Ocean', had spent a month in this area, where about 80 Iran and Russia-trading tankers assemble for floating storage and unregulated STS transfers of Western-sanctioned oil, often under dangerous conditions. The ships form part of an inefficient logistics network of dark fleet tankers that ship crude cargoes from Russia, Iran and Venezuela via multiple STS transfers in international waters to obscure the destination and origin. Dozens are falsely flagged like the 'Bluebell', thus invalidating insurance and certificates of safety and seaworthiness. The 'Bluebell' is one of some 1900 ships identified as part of the dark fleet, and among hundreds of vessels now transmitting a false flag, with 40% of Iran-trading tankers and 30% of Russia trading tankers in the dark fleet now using fraudulent registries, signaling false flags such as Curaçao in this case, or whose flag status is unknown. Fraudulent registries linked to these trades by the IMO include Aruba, Benin, Curaçao, Guinea, Guyana, Eswatini, Malawi, Timor-Leste, and St Maarten. Other ships falsely transmit they are flagged with legitimate registries, posing a significant threat to the regulatory integrity of global seaborne trade and undermines the foundations of the world’s maritime economic system.

A massive fire, along with several other errors, had set plans back somewhat, but on Aug 1, 2025, the 'Thalassitis' finally sets sail on is maiden voyage from Piraeus to Crete. The ferry will, however, sail only on a roll-on/roll-off basis, without carrying passengers.

Following the allision of the 'Ulöysses', where part of the pier collapsed, the port will remain closed until at least Dec 20. Irish Ferries has redeployed the “James Joyce” to the Rosslare - Pembroke route whilst the “Ulysses” has deviated from the Holyhead route for the first time in history. On Dec 12 the ferry left Dublin on the 4 p.m. service to Cherbourg in place of the“WB Yeats” Meanwhile, the Stena Line have sent the ‘Stena Adventurer' to Fishguard and the ‘Stena Estrid' to Birkenhead.

Ferry services have been cancelled between Holyhead and Dublin following the storm Darragh. The Irish Ferries and Stena Line websites were showing major disruption to services on Dec 9, 2024, and Dec 10. The Irish Ferries website showed all services were cancelled due to infrastructure weather damage in Holyhead. Although the Holyhead to Dublin service by the 'James Joyce' on Dec 10 at 8.15 .p.m was scheduled to run. Stena Line is also showing the 'Stena Estrid' was set to sail from Holyhead at 8.30 p.m. The incident with the 'Ulysses', which had an allision on Dec 7, has caused damage to port infrastructure. As a result, Holyhead Port has been closed to marine traffic and, at this time, it was expected that the port will remain closed until Dec 10 at 6 p.m. at the earliest, while a thorough assessment was conducted.

Early on July 30, the 'Sefens', loaded with gasoline likely refined from Russian stock, has docked at the Kwinana terminal, approximately 25 miles south of Perth, to offload its cargo. The tanker had departed from the Jamnagar refinery on July 11. Protestors called for the vessel to be turned away, but it was pointed out that the vessel was not in violation of the sanctions. It provided legitimate documentation that it had been loaded in India, and it was admitted that it was nearly impossible to determine the source of the stock. Australia has imposed broad sanctions on Russia since the start of its war against Ukraine. For the first time, it also recently imposed sanctions on shadow fleet tankers, pouncing on reports that nearly 50 % of the feedstock going into Jamnagar was coming from Russia., and said that Australia must move immediately to stop these imports. Australia has imported approximately US$650 million of oil products from India in the first four months of 2025. Most of it was likely made from Russian stock. About 90 % of Australia’s imports from India come from the Jamnagar refinery. Under the pressure building on intermediaries, India’s state refineries have all suspended purchases of Russian oil this week, scrambling to find alternative sources, primarily in the Middle East. However, the state refineries are not the largest buyers, which remain the private companies in India, including Reliance Industries and Nayara Energy. After the EU sanctions against Nayara, there have been multiple reports of tankers diverting and companies demanding that their contracts be canceled due to the sanctions.

Campaigners have warned that the 'Seferis', destined for the port of Kwinana, was carrying Russian oil despite sanctions put in place because of the Ukraine war. The 'Seferis' left Sitka two weeks ago full of oil from the Jamnagar refinery, and it is due to arrive in the outer-Perth suburb of Kwinana on July 27 at 4 a.m. The Jamnagar refinery is notoriously fed by Russian crude oil, with as much as 55 per cent of their 2025 stock coming from the European pariah. The alarm has been raised about a “loophole” that allows Russian oil to be bought and sold in Australia, with local campaigners and parliamentarians calling for immediate action. The Independent federal MP Andrew Wilkie raised the issue in Question Time on July 25: “In July, two vessels reportedly docked in Botany Bay, with some 175,000 tonnes of petrol from the Jamnagar refinery in India, which uses up to 55 per cent Russian oil. So these vessels effectively carry some 90,000 tonnes of Russian-sourced petrol, paid for by Australians, which will help fund Putin’s war in Ukraine.” The loophole has recently been closed in the European Union, which has banned the importation of petroleum products refined form Russian crude oil in its 18th sanctions package against Russia. The Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations has urged Australia to take similar action. Since February 2023, Australia has imported an estimated $3.7bn worth of Russian crude, as a component in refined petroleum products from Indian refineries – sending around $1.8bn in tax revenue to the Kremlin.

On Dec 12 the divers were still carrying out their inspections on the berth at Holyhead with all the steel columns being checked for any damages under the waterline. Stena was still deeming this an ongoing technical issue- Once the inspections have been finished a decision is made by the relevant teams regarding the chance that the T5 berth can begin operating again and Holyhead Por can once again resume operations.

Smoke has been observed at the port of Tuapse after explosions were reported overnight on Nov 29, 2024. Reports suggested that a large Russian landing ship may have been damaged. Smoke was rising from one of the berths, which is equipped with cranes for loading civilian vessels. Satellite images from SentinelHub on Nov 20 revealed a 135-meter-long vessel docked there, potentially a large landing ship, matching the class of Russian warships known as Project 11711 Ivan Gren. Currently, there is only one such ship in the Black Sea, the 'Pyotr Morgunov' from Russia's Northern Fleet.