The ro-pax ferry MV Virgen de Peñafrancia II listed heavily about 10 metres from Real Port in Quezon Province, on the east coast of Luzon in the Philippines, early on 30 October. All 40 passengers and 18 crew were evacuated safely, and oil-spill booms were laid as a precaution.
The Liberian-flagged container ship Contship Jet has sunk about 21 nautical miles southeast of Shabla, near Cape Kaliakra in Bulgaria’s Black Sea waters, after three sea drones struck it on 28 October. All 18 crew, 14 Filipinos and four Ukrainians, had already been rescued and taken to Varna.
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines has taken delivery of Maizuru Kazenomai at Oshima Shipbuilding in Japan, the country’s first coal carrier with a Wind Challenger hard sail. Running on LNG and built for Kansai Electric Power, the ship is expected to cut CO2 emissions by up to about 30%.
Iran’s IRGC Navy says three oil tankers hit naval mines on a southern route through the Strait of Hormuz, between Iran and Oman’s Musandam Peninsula. UKMTO separately reported a tanker struck by an unknown projectile off Oman on 29 October. None of the ships has been named or verified.
Russia says regular year-round shipping on the Northern Sea Route, along its Arctic coast from the Barents Sea to the Bering Strait, will begin in early 2027. Rosatom plans to use winter-ready Arc7 LNG carriers, faster convoys and nine nuclear icebreakers once the new Chukotka enters service.
A tanker was reported burning and mostly submerged nine miles north of Khasab, on Oman’s Musandam Peninsula in the Strait of Hormuz, after an apparent attack on 28 October. The same day, US naval forces advised ships to avoid unnecessary transits and to expect questioning and boarding checks.
The Port of Aarhus, on Denmark’s Jutland peninsula, has tested the country’s first shore power system for container ships with Eimskip’s Dettifoss. Daily use is planned from January 2027, and up to four ships will be able to connect at once ahead of EU rules for 2030.
Carabinieri divers have rediscovered a Roman shipwreck site off Punta Chiappa, near Camogli in the Portofino Marine Protected Area of Italy’s Ligurian Sea. Nine wine amphorae from the 2nd to 1st century BC were mapped, possibly from a wreck first reported in 1959 and then lost.
A Norwegian consortium led by Emerald Nuclear will test a full-scale nuclear ship propulsion system at Stette, near Ålesund on Norway’s west coast, in 2027. Backed by the Research Council of Norway, the MarNuPS pilot will check crew interaction, with a first offshore vessel planned for 2031-32.
The Liberian-flagged container ship Contship Jet was struck by drones in the Black Sea about 17 miles off Cape Kaliakra, near Varna, Bulgaria, on 28 October. The Bulgarian Navy rescued all 18 crew, 14 Filipinos and four Ukrainians. It is the ninth ship hit in the western Black Sea this month.
NYK, K Line, JERA and four Japanese shipyards will build four ammonia-fuelled car carriers and a dedicated bunkering vessel, creating a full ammonia fuel supply chain at the Hekinan terminal in Aichi, central Japan, by 2030. Ammonia is toxic, so crews will need new training in safe fuel handling.
A court has lifted a stay so a Kerala government committee can restart compensation talks with MSC over the May 2025 sinking of MSC Elsa 3 in the Arabian Sea off Kerala. Any settlement must go back to the court, with the next hearing on 24 November and claims still far apart.
The Vehicle Carrier Safety Forum has issued fire drill guidelines for car carriers, ro-ro and ro-pax ships. Six realistic scenarios at sea and in port, plus tabletop exercises, aim to move crews from reading guidance to practising it, with fixed firefighting systems released within 15 minutes of the first alarm.
A BIMCO-chaired industry working group has released version 1.0 of two voluntary frameworks, Operational Vessel Data and Vessel Emissions Reporting. They let ship data be captured once and reused for IMO DCS, EU MRV, EU ETS and charter reporting, which could cut the duplicate paperwork that often falls on ship officers.
A new study by London’s UCL Energy Institute finds nuclear-powered container ships can only compete with conventional and ammonia-fuelled vessels if the IMO Net-Zero Framework is in force and reactor costs fall sharply. Liability and insurance gaps mean nuclear shipping remains a long-term prospect needing new crew skills and rules.
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