German maritime authorities contained an engine-room fire on the car carrier Thames Highway shortly after it left Emden, disabling the vessel and triggering a major multi-agency towing and firefighting operation.
A new Norwegian timber carrier for Viken AT Market will be the first newbuild equipped with the Wärtsilä 25 Ammonia engine from 2027, cutting emissions on Norwegian coastal timber routes to Europe.
Liberia-registered tanker Horten and U.S. Coast Guard watchstanders rescue Belgian rower Benoit Bourguet after rogue waves overturn his boat City of Liverpool in 13–15 ft seas over 1,100 miles from Puerto Rico.
Russia has warned the UK against joining European efforts to stop and inspect “shadow fleet” tankers carrying Russian crude, as London weighs joint enforcement with EU partners in nearby waters.
Van Oord has finished coastal maintenance work at Banjaard beach using its hopper dredger Vox Apolonia running entirely on bio-LNG, in what the company says is the first Dutch dredging job fully powered by bio-LNG.
French carrier CMA CGM will keep three services on the longer route around Africa instead of using the Suez Canal, even as Maersk returns to the Red Sea and markets weigh capacity and freight-rate impacts.
U.S. Coast Guard heavy icebreaker Polar Star marks 50 years of service on its latest Operation Deep Freeze deployment, cutting channels through Antarctic ice for supply ships.
Italian financial police in Brindisi seized a Tuvalu-flagged bulk carrier loaded with black metal after uncovering a concealed Novorossiysk call, an AIS blackout and suspected falsified voyage documents.
Digital routing platform Syroco Live is now deployed across 16 LNG carriers operated by Knutsen LNG France, after a staged rollout showed it could support safe, efficient voyages under varied charter requirements.
