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On the morning of May 21, 2025, the hospital ship 'Juan de la Coa reported that a crew member of the 'Saleta', sailing 10 nautical miles northwest of Avilés, required medical evacuation. The CCS Gijón of Salvamento Marítimo mobilized the SAR helicopter Helimer 211, which hoisted the patient and transported him to El Musel, where an ambulance was waiting.

After the "Peyton Lynn C" entered the South Lock of the Kiel Canal in Kiel- Holtenau enroute from Pitea to Antwerp on May 20, 2025, at around noon to enter the waterway, the captain of the ship informed the German authorities about a case of illness on board and requested an ambulance. A crew member had suddenly reported a back problem and was unable to move. The fire department's rescue service arrived, but immediately requested the fire brigade from the North Watch for support. Even the transport to the upper deck was a challenging task. Since there was no ramp to the ship in the lock, only a narrow gangway, many hands were required. With the help of the rescue service, the man was first made fit for transport on board. Strapped onto a special stretcher, the firefighters, after half an hour of hard work, brought him through the narrow corridors and stairwells of the container ship to the upper deck and over the gangway to a waiting ambulance at 1 p.m, which transferred him to hospital.

The "Aries" was detained in Ahus, Sweden, on May 11, 2025, with 15 deficiencies, five of which being regarded as seriously and grounds for a detention; 1) Structural conditions - Decks - corrosion Holed 2) Life saving Appliances - Embarkation arrangement survival craft Missing 3) Radio communications - SART/AIS-SART Batteries expired 4) Fire safety - Jacketed high pressure lines and oil leakage alarm Not as required 5) Pollution Prevention - Segregation of oil and water ballast Not as required The vessel was released again on May 19 and left the port en route to Hamburg, here it arrived on May 21. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063576908591

On May 19, 2025, the Italian Captain Michele Bartolomei, 52, of the 'Diamond Princess' has died on board the ship after a sudden medical emergency. The cruise ship was now under the command of Captain Salvatore Macera. Passengers were woken upat 2 a.m. to a ship-wide announcement calling for the medical response team to report to the medical center on Deck 4. The 'Diamond Princess was on a 13 stage cruise arriving and departing from Tokyo, when Bartolomei died near Taipei. He was about to celebrate his 30th anniversary with the cruise company with him starting in August 1995. News of the captain's death came as the 'Diamond Princess' was docked in Keelung, Taiwan, midway through a 19-day Southern Islands Explorer voyage that began in Yokohama. The announcement, made over the ship’s public address system, left passengers and crew in stunned silence. After sailing from Yokohama on May 16, the itinerary included visits to Ishigaki and Naha, as well as an overnight call to Keelung, before returning to Yokohama for a ten-night circumnavigation cruise of Japan on May 25. Report with photo: http://crew-center.com/captain-michele-bartolomei-dies-aboard-diamond-princess

On the morning of May 16 , 2025, the Malaysia Maritime detained the 'MSC Olia' with 23 crew members on board, after its team boarded the ship and inspected the crew’s paperwork. The captain of the ship failed to submit any documents of anchoring permission. The 44-year-old Russian national and the second engineer were taken to the headquarters of Selangor State Maritime for further investigations and questioning after the vessel anchored without permission. If convicted, they could impose a fine of up to approximately $23,000, two years in prison, or both penalties. The Area Control Centre had identified a “suspicious vessel. and began monitoring the movement of the container ship at approximately 09.20 a.m. LT, and at around 1.20 p.m. the vessel was noted to be stationary. A patrol boat was dispatched to investigate. It located the ship which had anchored about 22.5 nautical miles southwest of the town of Sekinchan, north of Kuala Lumpur on the west coast of Malaysia in the Malacca Strait. The vessel was coming from Jakarta, and due in Singapore on May 17. The vessel hass docked in Port Klang.