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Ukraine Strikes Caspian Sea for the First Time, Damaging Lukoil Platform

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Ferry pier at Herfol, center right, and old post office, center (Google Maps / Airbus)

Norwegian Ferry Overshoots Pier and Hits Old Post Office

Published Dec 11, 2025 7:26 PM by The Maritime Executive

  On Thursday, a ferry overshot its berth and crashed into an old building alongside the pier on the island of Herfol, Norway.  At about 0930 hours on Thursday morning, operator Norled confirmed that the ferry connection for Herfol was temporarily suspended due to an operational incident. The suspension notice has since been lifted and is not mentioned on the firm's site.  On arrival at the port, the ferry Ternen kept going too far alongside the pier. It appears to...

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Bananas Ahoy as Overboard Containers Wash Ashore

Published Dec 11, 2025 6:36 PM by The Maritime Executive

Five days after eight containers carrying bananas were washed overboard from the reefer ship Baltic Klipper in Southampton Water, bananas in the thousands are still washed up onto the beaches of the West Sussex coast in southern England. A total of 16 containers were lost overboard, with others transporting plantains and avocados. It has turned into a bit of a bonus day for residents who have been finding the jetsam within the wreckage of the containers. With heavy...

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U.S. Coast Guard boarding team seizes the bridge aboard the tanker Skipper, Dec. 10 (U.S. DOJ)

Seized Shadow Fleet Tanker Gets Under Way in U.S. Coast Guard Custody

Published Dec 11, 2025 5:21 PM by The Maritime Executive

  The seized tanker Skipper has turned its AIS transponder back on and is now broadcasting a position just east of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, heading northbound for an unknown destination. The stateless, sanctioned vessel was captured on Wednesday by a U.S. Coast Guard boarding team in a rare execution of an arrest warrant in international waters. A federal court authorized the capture of the Skipper for alleged violations of sanctions on Iran's energy industry, confirmed by multiple independent...

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NYK and Mitsui OSK to Settle Long-Running UK Pricing Fixing Allegations

Published Dec 11, 2025 5:18 PM by The Maritime Executive

  Two of Japan’s leading shipping companies and operators of car carriers have agreed to settle a long-running case in the UK that alleged the major shipping companies worked as a cartel to fix prices and collude in vehicle shipment contracts. The UK case is similar to other complaints brought in jurisdictions around the globe, which all found the car carriers had colluded to set global pricing. Most of the cases had been brought by regulators, including the European Union,...

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Norway Approves Applications for Two Floating Wind Projects

  Norway’s Ministry of Energy reports that it will award two project areas in the Utsira Nord region off the coast of Stavanger after having reviewed the applications received in the award program. Norway previously reported that two consortia had been formed and each submitted bids, which have now been confirmed. The area which is 1,010 square kilometers, would place wind turbines at least 7 km (4.3 miles) from shore.  Because of the water depth and the challenges along the...

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Shipbuilding

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CBO: Better Planning Could Cut Down U.S. Navy's Drydock Delays

  The U.S. Navy surface fleet's maintenance-delay woes continue to worsen, according to a new review by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Challenges during yard periods have been building for years, and are a key impediment to generating readiness and deterrence. Known difficulties in planning and parts procurement are exacerbated by an aging fleet, CBO found in a review of maintenance data for destroyers and amphibs - and some vessels have experienced man-hour labor overruns in the range of 40 percent,...

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Environment

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Public-Private Partnership Develops First Methanol-Powered Cement Carrier

  A new project supported by the Norwegian government, along with German shipping company Hartmann Group, will demonstrate new opportunities in sustainable shipping, distributing cement in Norway’s domestic market. The vessel, which is due to enter service in the first quarter of 2028, will primarily use green methanol as its fuel, reducing CO2 emissions and demonstrating the emerging potential for sustainable shipping in smaller segments of shipping. In early 2025, Heidelberg Materials Norway, part of one of the world's largest...

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UK Southampton

NYK and Mitsui OSK to Settle Long-Running UK Pricing Fixing Allegations

  Two of Japan’s leading shipping companies and operators of car carriers have agreed to settle a long-running case in the UK that alleged the major shipping companies worked as a cartel to fix prices and collude in vehicle shipment contracts. The UK case is similar to other complaints brought in jurisdictions around the globe, which all found the car carriers had colluded to set global pricing. Most of the cases had been brought by regulators, including the European Union,...

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