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A crew member of the 'Icon of the Seas' has died after going overboard. A man overboard call went off aboard the ship on July 25, 2025, at around 7:00 p.m., a few hundred miles off the coast of the Bahamas. Crews deployed rescue efforts. The crew member was located and pulled onto a dinghy; however, he passed away.

The salvage pf the 'Infinitiy IV' in La Louvière by the company Antwerp Underwater Solutions is due to start on July 28, affter preparatory work on the barge has been carried out. The ship is still stuck under the collapsed bridge over the Canal du Centre in La Louvière, which is currently being demolished. The motorway was temporarily closed near the work site for a nighttime operation from July 9 to July 10t. Traffic across the canal has been flowing in both directions over the remaining bridge. The section affected is the section between the E42/A15 interchange with the A501 and the E42/A15 interchange with the E19/A7. When on March 6, a bridge over the E42 motorway collapsed, one person had died and three were injured. A crane landed on the barge during the accident, trapping two other people on board. They were freed by emergency services.

The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka ordered on July 24, that the Singaporean shipping company X Press Feeders has to pay $1 billion in interim damages for the sinking of the "X-Press Pearl". The Sri Lankan authorities have requested $40 million in compensation the day after the accident, now up to $1 billion, which could increase further depending on the calculation of other compensation, according to the judgment. The accident caused an unprecedented ecological disaster, preventing all fishing activity for several months and causing significant deposits of chemicals and plastic pellets along 80 kilometres of coastline. Despite obtaining an order from a London maritime court in July 2023, limiting their liability to a maximum of $25 million, the Singaporean owners are facing an appeal of this decision by Sri Lanka and are now awaiting a decision from the London court. The owners have already had to pay $7.85 million for cleanup and compensation to the fishermen. Sri Lankan authorities believe the fire was caused by a nitric acid leak, which the crew appeared to have been aware of nine days before the fire began. Ports in Qatar and India had refused to unload the leaking nitric acid.

On July 22, the 46.80-meter-long and 9.36-meter-wide,lock gate, which was damaged by the 'Madicken' on Jan 2, has been removed and brought to Kiel by the tugs 'Kiel' and 'Holtenau'. The 1500-tons- gate was to be repaired in Kiel. The impact had caused the gate to be dented about two meters deep over a width of about eight to ten meters. For the crossing to Kiel, technicians had stabilized the gate with two floating pontoons. The gate was to be drydocked in Dock 8a at the German Naval Yards shipyard in Kiel at the earliest opportunity. A replacement lock gate will be installed in Brunsbüttel at the start of August. It has just been towed from Kiel after repairs. Divers are currently using the time to replace worn rail plates on the floor of the lock chamber. Report with photo: https://www.kn-online.de/lokales/kiel/schleusentor-nach-schiffshavarie-zur-reparatur-nach-kiel-geschleppt-KS3A46TF2VFB5FSFXO53HK2ATA.html

Within a few days, it will become clear whether two Rotterdam buyers will be allowed to sell 260 brand-new BMWs or whether the vehicles must be destroyed. They were stored in the hold of the 'Fremantle Highway', when a fire broke out on board on July 25, 2023, approximately 27 kilometers off the coast of Ameland. while the ship was en route from Bremerhaven to Singapore with nearly 4,000 new cars, but ultimately had to be towed to Eemshaven. The entrepreneurs bought the seemingly flawless BMWs in Eemshaven for over five million euros. They intended to resell them. According to them, the BMWs are in excellent condition, but the German car manufacturer itself claims the cars were damaged in the fire. BMW seized the vehicles and, in legal proceedings, demanded that all 260 be destroyed. BMW is against the sale, partly because cars intended for the Asian market are not allowed to be sold in Europe. Furthermore, BMW can no longer guarantee the safety of the cars, the car manufacturer's lawyer argued in February 2024. BMW's position is that the cars have been damaged by the heat and soot, and by the ship itself, that the quality has deteriorated, and that any future claims will cause BMW problems. The judge will rule on the case no later than the first week of August. All 260 hybrid cars are still parked in an industrial estate in Moerdijk. If the judge in the main proceedings does decide that the cars must be destroyed, Bakker and his colleague buyer will face enormous expenses. Not only the demolition is expensive- The storage also costs money, and while the cars are getting older every day, their value decreases.