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On the evening of July 14, the 'Gjøa' allided with the quay in the Alverstraumen outside Bergen. The ferry sailed at high speed into the neighbour’s wooden pier, which is attached to concrete foundations, which came loose after the heavy impact. They have moved 20–25 centimeters, so that the approximately 50 square meter pier has cut into the neighbour's boathouse wall. Report with video: https://www.kystens.no/nyheter/fergen-dundret-inn-i-kaien-ble-helt-skjelvne-/2-1-1846230

On May 16, the Norwegian tug 'Sea1 Ruby' finally took the 'Maersk Sana' in tow following an extended period during which the laden vessel was ‘safely adrift at sea’ in the western Atlantic, en route to a port of refuge in the Bahamas, with an expected arrival in the last week of May. The container ship was towed to Freeport, a tow of approximately 900 nautical miles, which at five knots was completed on May 21. One crew member ‘who was transported to a hospital in the US remained in stable but critical condition and was receiving the best possible care. Maersk remained in communication with its customers about mitigating impacts to their supply chains” The weather conditions have remained favourable siunce the explosion and fire on April 29. The Atlantic hurricane season begins in a few days’ time, and then getting a towline on the 'Maersk Sana' could have been very different. Miami’s National Hurricane Weather Center reported that tropical cyclone formation is not expected within the next seven days. The 'Maersk Sana' finally left Freeport again on July 14, en route to Singapore with an ETA as of Aug 18.

The captain of the 'Meshka', actually sailing as 'Rahma', which ran aground off Landskrone near Ven on May 31, en route to the Russian port of Vysotsk, has been sentenced for negligence in maritime traffic to a daily fine of 47,500 Swedish Crowns. He was found guilty of carelessly and with a lack of attention operating the ship, which led to it running aground with 938 tons of oil in its tanks.The captain had defended himself by saying that the nautical chart data in the ship's system was not complete. At the same time, he admitted that he did not have full control over where the ship was and should have discovered this earlier, stating that it was his fault and he could have prevented the accident. The ship was inspected at the Öresund Drydocks Ship Repair Yard ffrom June 7-10 and finally reached the port of destination on June 14. It sailed again on July 18 en route to Dakar, where it arrived on July 10.

The decommissioned German trawler "Rudolf Virchow-SAS 252", which sank on May 25, 2025, in the fishing port of Dänholm in the Strelasund Strait, was raised by the 'Baltic Lift' on the evening of July 15,. The historic vessel will now be scrapped at the Volkswerft Shipyard in 'Stralsund. Divers had attached two straps to the bow and stern of the wreck, which was first righted and drained. The contaminated water from the hull was pumped onto special vehicles on site for proper disposal. The "Rudolf Virchow" passed the Ziegelgraben Bridge in Stralsund on the morning of July 16 in the slings of the floating crane, which moored at the Volkswert Stralsund at 7 a.m. UTC. Around ten salvors had been involved in the operation, including divers, assistants, and two captains. The cause of the sinking of the 24-meter-long vessel was still unknown. The water police initiated proceedings against an unknown person due to leaked operating fluids; as the owner of the vessel, which had been moored at the Dänholm quay for many years, was initially unknown. The "Rudolf Virchow" was built in Barth in 1952 and is considered one of the last fishing boats that belonged to the fishing fleet of the GDR. Reports with photos and video: https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/stralsund-gesunkener-fischkutter-rudolf-virchow-gehoben,mvregiogreifswald-368.html https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/mecklenburgvorpommern/daenholm-taucher-bergen-gesunkenen-fischkutter-rudolf-virchow,mvregiogreifswald-362.html https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/Alter-Hochseekutter-in-Stralsund-gesunken,kutter414.html https://www.ostsee-zeitung.de/lokales/vorpommern-ruegen/stralsund/lag-seit-15-jahren-am-daenholm-stralsunds-letzter-hochseekutter-ist-gesunken-2EDI75UDQBBHDLNZD2QV3OOUMI.html https://www.ostsee-zeitung.de/lokales/vorpommern-ruegen/stralsund/stralsund-sechs-wochen-nach-dem-sinken-hat-die-bergung-der-rudolf-virchow-begonnen-LMRVYH5QANEODERKOWJC7IJ2UE.html https://www.ostsee-zeitung.de/lokales/ungewisse-zukunft-fuer-kutter-virchow-I6IRYPERUUIKQ62FUASOZBVGPU.html

Ten days after running aground, the 'MSC Antonia' remains aground near the Eliza Shoals west of Jeddah. Satellite images from Pole Star Global were showing the vessel resting on a reef. Despite being listed as grounded, the ship appears on various vessel tracking sites, not just on the opposite side of the Red Sea but often far inland, along with other ships due to increased GPS spoofing . VesselFinder has the ship on Airport Road, south of Port Sudan, myShipTracking has it a few km further inland, while MarineTraffic’s location of the stricken ship places it – and a host of other vessels – 250 kilometres from the nearest shoreline in the Nubian Desert, the eastern region of the Sahara Desert. The maritime security specialist Ambrey has observed growing GPS interference in conflict zones with a constant disruption of the signal over an area, increasing navigational risk to shipping. The AIS signals showed the ship in Jeedah until June 18, and next available AIS signal of the 'MSC Antonia' was on June 26 in the Arabian Sea, and on July 3 it arrived in Singapore, before proceeding further to Phu My, where it arrived on July 8. Report with photos: https://splash247.com/grounded-msc-ship-appears-in-the-sahara/