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The "Ilida II" suffered a malfunction of its starboard side main engine while moored at the port of Paxos in the morning of Aug 19, 2019. Consequently, the 88 passengers due to board the vessel were transferred onto another vessel and were transported to Corfu by the care of the owner. The "Ilida II" was detained at Paxos by the port authority until the engine was repaired and a certificate of seaworthiness was issued.

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 20, 2019, the Honourable Marc Garneau, Minister of Transport in Canada, announced that the department has fined the "Selasse" for alleged non-compliance of a temporary mandatory speed restriction. The tanker was issued a $6000 fine. While compliance with the protection measures remained high, there were still a few exceptions, and Transport Canada continued to examine all reported cases of non-compliance. The "Selasse" was enroute from Montreal to Lavera with an ETA as of Aug 28.

The "Nadir", coming from Capo D'Orlando with 350 daytrippers to the Aeolian Islands on board, collided with a 20-meter yacht from Campania with a crew of five on board off Salina on Aug 20, 2019, at 11.30 a.m. The bow of the passenger vessel was breached as well as a part of the port side hull. The yacht was taken to Lipari, and the "Nadir" was escorted to Santa Marina Salina upon Salina island. The yacht which remained fairly navigated was diverted to Lipari where the Coast Guard awaited it. Five passengers on the passenger ship were injured, one of whom who was seriously injured at the head was transported to Messina by helicopter. He had already been assisted by a doctor and a nurse who were on board as passengers. The others were taken ashore by the Coast Guard patrol boat "CP 322" and medicated in the Lipari emergency room with minor injuries. According to initial investigations of the Coast Guard, the ferry did not give way to the yacht and thus caused the collision. The yacht with five tourists from Salerno on board was headed to Filicudi, the "Nadir" was enroute to Salina. The Public Prosecutor of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto and the Maritime District Office of Lipari launched an investigation against the ferry crew. Italian reports with photos: https://messina.gds.it/articoli/cronaca/2019/08/20/incidente-al-largo-di-salina-minicrociera-urta-uno-yacht-tre-feriti-21b45ed2-8f08-41f6-b431-34d1f0839b7f/ https://www.today.it/citta/scontro-imbarcazioni-salina-eolie.html https://www.ilmessaggero.it/italia/eolie_incidente_feriti_scontro_traghetto_yacht_ultime_notizie-4685418.html

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.

The "OTA-920" (427 gt, built 1968), while setting up with a barge, in the Rybinsk Reservoir, ran aground and sustained damage to its hull, at the kilometre mark 520 of the Volgo-Balt-Canal, on Aug 16, 2019, at 1.50 p.m. There were no injuries to the crew members or pollution as a result of the grounding.

The Second Officer and an Able Seaman, both Ukrainians, died after they drank methyl spirit on board of the "Magus" in the night of Aug 19, 2019. MThe aster of the tanker, which anchored off Taman, requested immediate assistance to the two poisoned crew members. They were transferred on board of a tug to shore and taken to hospital in Taman. One of them died during the transportation, the other one died in hospital.

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.