While the production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has increased in West Africa and the USA, there are also delays in unloading at Egyptian LNG terminals. These delays have led to a shortage of available LNG transport capacity, with the result that freight rates have fallen dramatically in recent weeks.
A volunteer lifeboat crew from the UK's Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) came to the aid of the RoRo vessel belonging to Finnish shipping company Finnlines after the ship made a distress call in the early morning of 11 November 2025. The cause was a fire in the engine room around 20 kilometres south-east of Eastbourne/East Sussex. When the lifeboat crew...
Pirate attack on "Hellas Aphrodite" - another serious incident off the coast of Somalia. The Greek product tanker Hellas Aphrodite (30,000 tonnes, flagged Malta) was boarded by armed pirates around 560 nautical miles south-east of Eyl on 6 November. The 24 crew members saved themselves in the ship's citadel before the...
The Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) in London has postponed the vote on the net zero framework and CO2 taxation. The extraordinary meeting is to be resumed in 12 months. In the meantime, the member states want to continue working towards a consensus on the...
Egypt's Suez Canal Authority (SCA) is endeavouring to resume shipping traffic through its waterway after revenues - and thus the contribution to the state budget - had been steadily declining. At a meeting with the Danish ambassador and a high-ranking delegation, the chairman of the Suez Canal Authority emphasised the long-standing relationship with Maersk...
On 25 December 2024, the tanker "Eagle S" lost its anchor and dragged for many miles across the seabed of the Baltic Sea. This resulted in damage to critical infrastructure. The captain and the ship's first and second officers were therefore charged with serious damage to five underwater cables of critical infrastructure.
With Anschütz Autonomics, Anschütz aims to sharpen the system profile of its autonomy modules for naval and security applications. At its core, the company is linking the certified SYNAPSIS bridge, which has proven itself in fleet use, more closely to autonomous functions: optical target tracking, rule-compliant collision avoidance (COLREG/KVR) and advanced motion control for precise course and speed guidance, including station keeping. In addition, SYNTACS Autonomics takes over the...
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