The oil tanker "Eventin", which is lying in the roadstead off the island of Rügen, may still not be sold or used for any other purpose by the German authorities. This was decided by the Federal Fiscal Court based in Munich in December, confirming an earlier decision in favour of the ship's owners. Determination The tanker, which flies the Panamanian flag, had been lost in January 2025 off...
A Dutch motor cargo ship was damaged by an ice floe on the Mittelland Canal near Bülstringen in Saxony-Anhalt on 12 January. According to the waterway police, the skipper was just about to dock when the alarm was suddenly triggered in the engine room and water entered the ship. The ingressing water was initially able to be pumped out by the ship's own...
Vilnius - Following cable damage in the Baltic Sea in early January, investigating authorities have searched a ship in connection with the incident, according to the Latvian Border Guard Police. According to the Lithuanian National Crisis Management Centre, the affected telecommunications cable connects the resort town of Sventoji in Lithuania with the Latvian port city of Liepaja - two coastal towns above Klaipeda...
During a severe winter storm at the beginning of January, the sea rescuers of the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (DGzRS) together with the naval aviators of the German Navy rescued a Norwegian single-handed sailor from acute distress at sea. The skipper's sailing yacht was adrift in the choppy North Sea near Helgoland, unable to manoeuvre following engine failure and damage to the mast. On...
And again it has happened - another telecommunications cable between Helsinki and Tallinn in the Gulf of Finland has been damaged - another Russian-operated ship dragging anchor! The Finnish Border Guard has stopped the ship registered under the flag of the Caribbean state of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and travelling from Saint Petersburg to Haifa in Israel....
As Europe seeks to modernise its industrial sector, the availability of low-cost steel has become an important factor. However, as the European Union tightens its climate regulations, the focus is also turning to the decarbonisation of steel production. The carbon footprint of the steel industry in Europe accounts for around five per cent of all regional emissions...
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...
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