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MSC and Celestyal Cruise Ships Transits Suez After Escape from Persian Gulf

Published Apr 27, 2026 2:30 PM by The Maritime Executive

After getting their cruise ships out of the Persian Gulf, two cruise lines elected to send their ships through the Suez Canal to speed their repositioning and return to commercial service. Most cruise ships, like other segments of commercial shipping, have been avoiding the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb due to the Houthis having menaced shipping and continuing safety concerns. The Suez Canal Authority reported that MSC Cruises’ MSC Euribia (184,000 gross tons) made the northbound transit on Sunday, April...

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Surge in Somali Piracy as EUNAVFOR Confirms Three Ongoing Incidents

Published Apr 27, 2026 12:59 PM by The Maritime Executive

After multiple reports of increased activity last week near the coast of Somalia, EUNAVFOR Operation Atalanta confirmed today that it is monitoring three ongoing incidents. It is cautioning vessels within 150 nautical miles of the coast after the sudden surge in activity. The most recent incident started today, April 26, and has now been confirmed by Atalanta. A Turkish-managed general cargo ship, Sward, transporting cement, was hijacked in a position approximately six nautical miles northeast of Garacad, Somalia. The 8,500...

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Workboat Hits and Damages Moored Fast Ferry Near Trondheim

Published Apr 27, 2026 2:07 AM by The Maritime Executive

[Brief] On Friday, a service vessel struck a moored fast ferry at a small port on the island of Froya, northwest of Trondheim, penetrating the ferry's hull. Video from the scene shows that a service vessel - identified by AIS as the Multi Power - approached the port side of the moored fast-ferry catamaran Froyfart at low speed, then made contact. Local outlet Hitra-Froya obtained imagery showing the hull damage to the fast ferry from the inside. The impact tore...

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Search Called off for Cruise Crewmember Who Went Overboard off Cape Cod

Published Apr 26, 2026 10:53 PM by The Maritime Executive

The U.S. Coast Guard has called off a search for a crewmember who fell overboard from the cruise ship Norwegian Breakaway off the coast of Wellfleet, Massachusetts on Saturday night. Norwegian Breakaway made a routine commercial voyage to Bermuda last week and was on the way back to port on Saturday. The search was initiated after the cruise ship notified the Coast Guard that a man had gone over the side. A camera had caught video footage of a man...

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U.S. Agrees to Deal to Cancel Two More Offshore Wind Farm Leases

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced today that it has reached agreements to redirect the planned investment for two offshore wind farm projects into the oil and gas sector, and in exchange, it will reimburse the fees paid for the wind leases. The Trump administration has been pursuing this strategy with early-stage offshore wind projects that were still in the permitting stage, having already reached a similar deal valued at nearly $1 billion with TotalEnergies for its U.S. offshore...

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US Navy Wants to Spend $2B on Foreign Shipbuilding "Study and Procurement"

The U.S. Navy's next annual budget is going to contain an unheard-of line item: a pair of multibillion-dollar studies of foreign shipbuilding options, USNI reports. The budgets for these "study and procurement efforts" are priced so high that they could easily pay for design, long-lead-time materials and initial construction contract awards, if the Navy were to progress them into a "procurement" effort. The department's detailed plans for the program have not yet been disclosed. According to USNI, the FY2027 budget...

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IMO Braces for a Tough Week as MEPC84 Resumes Net-Zero Debate

The battle lines are being drawn, and the protestors are on the doorstep of the International Maritime Organization as it resumes the debate on its Net-Zero Framework. After a last-minute decision to table the debate for six months to save the proposal, the IMO is now expected to face more heated debate and obstructionist tactics despite the call of the Secretary-General, who said this week’s important task was to find convergence to make meaningful progress. Everyone expects a “real fight,”...

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The Maritime Executive's Annual Energy Edition is Now Available Online

“Strait Outa Compton" That's the witty title of View From the E.U. columnist Erik Kravets' tongue-in-cheek comparison of N.W.A's hip-hop hit from 1988 and Iran's current strategy in the Gulf. But it's not all tongue-in-cheek, as you'll find out. Give it a read. You won't be disappointed. The war in Iran is, understandably, the subject of several articles in this, our annual "Energy Exploration & Production" edition. Allen Brooks, Eye on Energy columnist, uses it as backdrop for why the...

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