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Aboard the 'Carnival Sunrise' a massive brawl erupted on the Lido deck during a Bahamas cruise in June 2025. Passengers exchanged punches and hurled chairs, sparking panic among onlookers. Carnival Cruise Line, reinforcing its zero-tolerance policy, swiftly acted. The company confirmed that those responsible were identified through videos and witness accounts, removed at the next port. The incident, which occurred near the ship’s pizzeria, underscores growing concerns about disruptive behaviour on cruises as the company ramps up measures to ensure safety. Carnival’s response signals a robust effort to curb a troubling trend. Videos captured by passengers depicted the chaos, with objects flying and shouts echoing across the deck. The security team’s prompt intervention was vital in preventing serious injuries, though the episode left a lasting impact on many travelers’ experiences. The Carnival Cruise Line was intensifying its safety protocols for the bustling 2025 summer season. Operating 27 ships and serving millions annually, the company rolled out a new strategy to communicate its rules. Since early June, every stateroom receives a letter outlining the “Have Fun, Be Safe” code of conduct. The message is unequivocal: any behavior jeopardizing the safety or well-being of others will lead to fines, immediate disembarkation, and a lifetime ban.

On June 2, 2025, the Spanish shipyard Navantia, which built the 'Helge Ingstad', will avoid a lawsuit after the loss of the ship in 2018. A new settlement meant that the Norwegian state will receive a discount on future maintenance tasks, although at a value far from what the state originally demanded. After almost seven years of legal dispute over responsibility for the sinking of the frigate,, the Norwegian state and the Spanish shipyard Navantia have reached a settlement that closes a significant part of the compensation case. The agreement means that Navantia will provide a discount of 47.5 million euros on future maintenance and upgrade work on Norway's remaining five Fridtjof Nansen-class frigates. This is a fraction of the total claim of 15 billion Norwegian crowns, that the Norwegian state raised after the accident report's conclusions about a critical design flaw. Since the sinking in 2018, the Norwegian Ministry of Defense has waged a long-running battle to assign technical responsibility for the accident, in which the 'Helge Ingstad' collided with the tanker 'Sola TS' and subsequently sank. The accident report determined that water quickly entered the ship due to hollow propeller shafts, a defect that, according to the Norwegian Defense Ministry, was crucial to the frigate's inability to be saved. Against this background, the Norwegian state demanded a total of 15 billion Norwegian crowns in compensation from both the shipyard Navantia and the classification society DNV GL. However, with the settlement, the state now acknowledges that the case against the shipyard will not be taken to court, and that financial compensation will instead be provided in the form of a discount over the next six years. Navantia has long sought access to previously secret documents, which, according to the shipyard, could nuance the assessment of technical responsibility and the role of the Norwegian Defense in the accident. The shipyard has publicly criticized the Norwegian Ministry of Defense's decision to withhold internal documents that could potentially shed a different light on the case. Navantia believes that the Norwegian state's secrecy has prevented a full technical investigation. However, with the settlement, the parties choose to put the case behind them, without the shipyard formally acknowledging responsibility.

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.

At the Alang ship recycling yard on the Bhavnagar coast, Gujarat, the Shree Ram Vessel Scrap Pvt Ltd. (SRVSPL), filed a police complaint alleging a loss of Rs 45 lakh worth of equipment stolen from the 'DV Erica', which had been brought in from Abu Dhabi for dismantling. According to the complaint filed with Alang Marine police station, the theft was believed to have occurred on March 23, 2024, at around 5 a.m. The ship was anchored in the designated waiting area at the outer anchorage after having been towed from Abu Dhabi. When workers boarded the ship for inspection on the morning, they discovered signs of a break-in. Two ropes were found dangling from the stern of the ship, suggesting the thieves used them to climb aboard.

Since May 23, 2025, the 'Yasa Tokyo', loaded with 33,000 tons of wheat bound for Angola, has remained stranded in San Pedro in front of the local dock, unable to rejoin the Main Waterway. The incident not only paralyzed port operations but also exposed the structural deficit facing the river terminal. Over the weekend, the dredger 'Afonso de Albuquerque' removed more than 65,000 cubic meters of sediment from the access channel. However, the minimum depth of 9.80 meters required for the ship to set sail was not reached. More than 300,000 cubic meters of sediment would need to be removed to ensure a safe exit, three times what is normally extracted in an entire year. The sediment accumulation is explained by the drag of the Arrecifes River and the recent floods that impacted the Baradero area, with direct consequences upstream. Other vessels that were scheduled to call at the port remained on hold, with no clear date for resuming operations. The firm Grobocopatel Hermanos, one of the main port operators, has already begun to experience delays with a direct commercial impact. Report with photo: https://sl24.com.ar/un-puerto-sin-agua-y-un-barco-varado-hace-dias/

The authorities in Sicily have approved an amended salvage plan by the salvors of Hebo and Smit Salvage and coordinator TMC Marine to raise the 'Bayesian'. This plan involves the 'Hebo Lift 10', one of the largest sheerlegs in Europe, which will be lifting the stern of the yacht, so that the salvors can pass the slings under the hull. The clayey bottom requires this approach. Previous attempts were made to pull the cables under the hull while it was lying on the seabed. A total of eight slings are needed to lift the wreck, which is scheduled for the end of June. Over the past week, salvage teams have been searching the seabed around the 'Bayesian' for materials from the yacht, using remotely controlled underwater equipment. 17 objects were found, including deck furniture and the shell of a life raft.

On April 4, 2024, the containerm/v 'Magalie' ((IMO: 7413892)) was hijacked by members of the 5 Seconds gang in the Varreux terminal neighborhood at Port-au-Prince. The gang members took all crew members hostage and stole one-sixth of the cargo, which included rice, Haiti's main staple food. On April 8, Haiti's National Police stormed the ship and engaged in a five-hour gunfight. The operation resulted in the injury of two officers and an unspecified number of gang members being killed. The vessel was retrieved safely, and Haiti's Port Authority assisted in transporting the onboard personnel. The status of the crew members was unknown. The ship was pulled away from the shore by a tug. Gangs have frequently attacked Port-au-Prince's waterfront operations, causing disruptions to the supply and relief flow. Last month, vandals destroyed the Varreux Power Plant and briefly took over and looted the Caribbean Port Services (CPS), the biggest container terminal in the country. The UN's Famine Early Warning System Network states that the terminal's waterside activities may remain closed for several weeks.

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Two activists who were on board the 'Barcarole' on its way to Gaza have been placed in solitary confinement. The Arab-Israeli human rights organization Adalah reported on June 11, the Brazilian Thiago Avila and French MEP Rima Hassan. They were taken to separate detention centers. Thiago Ávila started a hunger strike on the morning of June 9. The four French activists will be deported on June 12 and 13. Israel previously gave the 12 activists the opportunity to leave the country immediately or to initiate deportation proceedings. Among the eight who did not agree were probably Hassan and the Dutchman Marco van Rennes. The Media organization Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) condemned on June 11 the detention of Yanis Mhamdi, a French journalist for the internet platform Blast. The journalist organization is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Mhamdi,. Mhamdi would have to sign documents from the Israeli authorities before being released. According to Mhamdi's employer Blast, their employee refused to sign, which is why he is still being held.

Two bodies were found in the fishing vessel 'Seahorse' on June 11. The 30-foot ship was found sunk in 25 feet of water near Billingsgate Shoal, west of Wellfleet, in Cape Cod Bay, on the afternoon,. The 'William Sparling' was deployed and arrived on scene within 30 minutes. Divers from the Massachusetts environmental police, and Massachusetts state police identified the vessel. Both crew members were found onboard. Divers recovered the bodies, and authorities have contacted their families. The Coast Guard sent investigating officers to explore the reasons why the vessel sank and when it sank. Salvage operations will follow to potentially get the vessel out of the water. The 'Seahorse' had left Rock Harbor at Orleans on June 8 at 8 a.m. Capt. Shawn Arsenault was at its helm, accompanied by his girlfriend. At 10:30 a.m. other fishermen saw him throwing debris off the vessel. Harbormaster Nate Sears was notified by witnesses and tried to contact him to tell him that wasn't allowed. He tried twice to contact him but wasn't successful. At about 2 p.m. a witness who was fishing in Cape Cod Bay saw Arsenault dragging for quahogs. He didn't see anyone else on the 'Seahorse'. When Arsenault didn't return on the high tide on that day, Sears assumed he'd gone to another harbor to land his shellfish and planned to fish the next high tide out of that port. On June 9, Sears contacted Arsenault's brother, Paul, a commercial fisherman who was on a contact list for Shawn and told him he wasn't going to return until he got his limit. On the night of June 9, Arsenault was still not back at Rock Harbor. Sears began making calls to other harbors to see if Arsenault was docked there. Onn the morning of, June 10, Sears received the last of the confirmations that harbour masters in Dennis, Provincetown and Orleans had not seen Arsenault. At that point he reached out to the Coast Guard to say he was concerned about the wellbeing of Arsenault and his girlfriend. The Coast Guard initiated a search for the vessel and put a broadcast out on VHF. The Coast Guard located the cell phone ping at around 10:30 p.m. two miles east of Chatham. It would have taken the Seahorse six to eight hours to reach that spot. On June 11, the Coast Guard was doing grid pattern searches, using sonar to search the ocean floor, and planes were out looking for debris in the water. Neighbouring natural resources personnel and harbour masters were scanning the shoreline by boat and walking the shoreline looking for any type of debris. An extensive multi-agency search for the overdue fishing vessel was led by Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England. They issued an UMIB on the morning of Juen 10 to notify the public of the emergency and launched Stations Chatham, Cape Cod Canal, and Provincetown to search the fishing area within Cape Cod Bay and the location of the last known cell phone ping. Report with video: https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/missing-cape-cod-fishing-boat-seahorse-found-underwater/ Partners from the Cape Cod Mutual Response System consisting of Massachusetts Environmental and State Police, National Park Service, and local fire and police departments from Hyannis, Eastham, Wellfleet, Orleans, and Fishing Partnership along with members of the fishing community searched shorelines, marinas, and fishing piers for the vessel. Crews from the Fast Response Cutter William Sparling conducted an overnight search operation on Tuesday night, according to the press release.

Ukraine's military intelligence directorate, the GUR, has claimed responsibility for a serious fire aboard the Russian corvette 'Serpukhov' at the port of Kaliningrad, a Buyan-M class vessel. GUR provided what appeared to be a schematic of the vessel's internal spaces, and a brief video of an incendiary device going off. The agency said that the 'Serpukhov' sustained substantial damage from the fire, with its means of communication and automation were completely destroyed. The Buyan class is designed for coastal operations and are heavily armed for their size, carrying up to eight Kalibr or Oniks antiship missiles and up to eight surface-to-air missiles. This was a deep strike behind the Russian lines. The agency's drones have hit Russian oil refineries up to 750 miles away from Ukraine's borders, and have taken approximately 14 percent of Russia's refining capacity offline. The latest strike - a claimed attack on a product pipeline - allegedly disabled all product tanker loadings at the occupied port of Azov. The GUR has also mounted a successful campaign against the Russian Black Sea Fleet, damaging or destroying a claimed one-third of its force and confining the rest to the relative safety of Novorossiysk. The sister ship 'Velykyi' Ustyug was likely damaged by a Ukrainian drone early in the Russian invasion. In June 2022 the 'Ustyug' was photographed in tow to a shipyard, showing signs of fragmentation damage along her port side. Report with video: https://maritime-executive.com/article/ukrainian-spy-agency-claims-it-lit-a-fire-on-a-russian-corvette

Brazil: Agriculture Officers Strike Federal agriculture officers decided to start the strike next Monday (22), which will directly affect trading involving perishable products and may cause delays in berthing and unberthing ships. Federal Revenue tax auditors also announced that they will intensify the general strike that has been ongoing since November last year, as reported in our previous newsletters. Next week, from the 22nd to the 26th of January, there will be no cargo clearance at the ports and airports of São Paulo and Bahia. This means that goods release services will be affected at Viracopos airport, the Port of Santos, Salvador customs (from the 23rd) and Guarulhos Airport. During the period, only perishable, live and dangerous cargo will be released at the sites, in addition to medicines and food, as they are considered essential. It is important to highlight that the import and export of goods of animal and plant origin require the consent and inspection of agricultural officers. The category's national union (Anffa Sindical) informed that the release of certificates and goods at ports, in this case, will respect the last day of the deadline set out in the rules of the Ministry of Agriculture. It is worth remembering that in the last meeting held on December 27th with Sindifisco Nacional, minister Fernando Haddad and the special secretary of Revenue, Robinson Barreirinhas, stated that they did not plan to make changes to the proposal presented for the payment of the efficiency bonus in 2024 , which motivated the continuation of the strike. The Superior Courts have already pacified the understanding that the strike movement cannot interrupt essential public services. Therefore, the functioning of the productive activity of shipowners/importers/exporters cannot be delayed by the Customs Inspectors' strike. Customs clearance must continue, regardless of the tax auditors' strike. The Judiciary has been intervening effectively on a case-by-case basis, in order to avoid the harmful effects of the Federal Revenue auditors' strike and maintain the regular activity of taxpayers at Brazilian customs. The strike could affect the port and customs sector. Our team is closely monitoring the situation in the North/Northeast ports and will inform you of any updates.