"Chip Wreck" off Sussex Coast in Second Edible Food Invasion In early December, beaches in the county of Sussex on the southern coast of England were carpeted in bananas washed ashore from 16 containers which h...

The 2026 #UK chips invasion?

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Growing Risks for Russia's Shadow Fleet in the Mediterranean Since their expulsion from their naval base in Tartus, with the probably unforeseen longevity of the closure of the Bosporus to naval traffic, the Ru...

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Clogged Heads Make Headlines Aboard $13B Carrier USS Ford The first-in-class carrier USS Gerald R. Ford has had technical problems from the moment of her delivery in 2017, when she was transferred to the Nav...

Clearly #USN needs more cadets and junior engineers to keep vacuum toilet systems running!

#CVN #AircraftCarrier #USSFord

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Sweden, Finland Propose Strict Ban on Services for Russia-Linked Tankers The governments of Sweden and Finland, which have both experienced suspicious incidents linked to "shadow fleet" tankers, have jointly called on the...

#Finland #Sweden pushing for more sanctions against #Shadowfleet

#Russia #BalticSea #GulfOfFinland

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Chinese-Led South African Naval Exercise Slides into Diplomatic Disaster The Chinese-led BRICs Exercise "Will for Peace 2026," now taking place in Cape Town,  is turning into a diplomatic disaster for its host South Africa....

The diplomatic woes of a naval exercise 🤷

#Iran #SouthAfrica #China #Russia #UAE #Brics

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Maersk Offshore Wind’s Installation Vessel Completes Sea Trials Maersk Offshore Wind and Seatrium reported that their under-construction massive offshore wind installation vessel has completed sea trials. The vess...

#Maersk #MaerskOffshorewind #WTIV #WindTurbineInstallationVessel from #Seatrium #SG #Singapore completes seatrial

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Taiwan Fines and Deports Fishing Boat Captain Who Damaged Subsea Cables Taiwan continues to carefully monitor its subsea communications cables and other connections after a series of incidents involving ships. In the lates...

#Taiwan sentence after damage to #subsea cables #Infrastructure

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Iranian Navy Frigates Leave Bandar Abbas as Protests in Iran Intensify While much of Western media has focused in recent days on the situation in Venezuela and connected maritime activity, protests, and sometimes violent...

#Iran #Navy leaving port ?

#BandarAbbas

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Bulgaria Seeks Reimbursement from Owners of Salvaged Shadow Fleet Tanker Bulgaria’s Maritime Administration presented a bill to the representatives of the Chinese-owned shadow fleet tanker that it was forced to salvage last...

#Kairos #Bulgaria #BlackSea

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Singapore Cites Fatigue, Manning and Safety Culture in Fatal 2024 Accident The Transport Safety Investigation Bureau of Singapore issued its final report on the July 2024 incident in which a Hafnia oil tanker hit an anchored...

Incident Report covering fully laden Hafnia Nile #HafniaNile ( #Hafnia #HafniaTankers #HafniaPools #DK #Denmark #Copenhagen #Hellerup #Singapore) and a #Shadowfleet #tanker at anchor

2/Off on Hafnia Nile only had 2hr rest in last 38.5hrs

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Days After U.S. Operation, Chevron Resumes Oil Shipments From Venezuela On Monday, the latest consignment of Venezuelan oil for U.S. supermajor Chevron departed for the Gulf Coast, a show of continuity after the U.S. capt...

#Venezuele #US #USA #Chevron

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#Qendil aground in #Turkey

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Indonesia's Sea Lanes Give it Strategic Leverage Over China [By Alfin Febrian Basundoro and Trystanto Sanjaya]The power dynamic between Indonesia and China is more complex than the one-way economic dependence...

#Indonesia control over sealanes giving leverage over #China?

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Report: Chinese Fishing Vessel Hijacked Off Somalia A Chinese fishing vessel from a notorious illegal-fishing fleet has been hijacked off the coast of Puntland, Somalia, according to maritime security...

#China #Illegal fishing vessel captured off #Somalia #Puntland

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#IllegalUnreportedUnregulated #IUU

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Analysts Question Whether Trump-Class Battleship Will be Built The announcement of a new Trump-class battleship design last week prompted considerable commentary about its equipment, capabilities and exceptional...

The #DelusionalClassBattleship

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Saudi Arabian Forces Bomb Port in Yemen Raising Tensions with UAE Saudi Arabia, acting in the name of what it calls the “Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen,” launched what it is terming limited airstrikes on t...

#SaudiArabia attack in #Yemen , tensions with #UAE #UnitedArabEmirates

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Report: Lost Russian Ship Was Carrying Nuclear Submarine Reactor Parts The special cargo aboard the Russian arms ship that went down off Cartagena last year was not what its crew initially reported, according to Spanish...

Ursa Major #UrsaMajor ( #Russia) carried parts for #Nuclear #Submarine when it sank in #Mediterranean

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Floating Crane Catches Fire at Russian Ship Repair Yard On Tuesday, a major fire broke out at a small ship repair yard in Nizhy Novgorod, a city on the Volga in western Russia. The Ministry of Emergency Si...

Too bad!

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Second Seafarer Arrested in Ferry Malware Case Italian police have arrested a second Latvian suspect in connection with an attempted malware attack aboard a Mediterranean ferry, expanding the inte...

Second arrest

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EMSA Selects Airbus Drone to Enhance Maritime Surveillance Operations Airbus has been awarded a €30 million ($35 million) framework contract by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) to provide Remotely Piloted Airc...

#Airbus #Drones for #EMSA #EU #Europe

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Severe Weather Disrupts Shipping in the North Atlantic A severe, rapidly-intensifying storm is forcing ships to divert southwards to avoid serious conditions. A massive low of just 938 millibars is churni...

Severe weather incoming !

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#SE #Sweden #Navy #CoastGuard

#Russia #Shadowfleet #BalticSea

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After U.S. Bust, Four Tankers Turn Around Instead of Calling in Venezuela Venezuela's oil exports are coming under heavy pressure after the U.S. seized the VLCC Skipper off the country's shores last week. The boarding netted...

4 #Tankers bound for #Venezuela
reversing course

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Royal Navy Tracks Russian Submarine’s Transit of English Channel The UK’s Royal Navy is highlighting that it once again tracked the movements of a Russian submarine and its escorts traveling through the English Chan...

#RFA #RoyalFleetAuxiliary #Tidesurge incl embarked #RN #RoyalNavy helicopter tracking #Russia ships submarine in #EnglishChannel

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#Altay
#GeneralSkobelev
#Ascalon
#ViktorVeliky

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Icelandic Coast Guard Investigates Russian Ships on its Maritime Border The Icelandic Coast Guard highlights that it regularly monitors vessels inside and outside its economic zone, and yesterday, December 8, five vessels...

#Iceland #CoastGuard keeping an eye on #Russia vessels

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French Senate Adopts Environmental Tax on Cruise Passengers Lawmakers in France were successful in adding a new tax on cruise passengers to the proposed 2026 French state budget. They contend the tax is to coun...

#FR #France imposes #Tax on #Cruise passengers

#CruiseIndustry #Cruises #Environment

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China Challenges New US National Security Strategy With Visit to Jamaica The United States' recently-published National Security Strategy is refreshingly clear; it seeks to enforce a “Trump Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrin...

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Shadow Tanker Mystery Continues as Crew Waits for New Tow off Bulgaria Bulgarian authorities are still trying to understand the situation with the fire-damaged tanker Kairos, which washed up on their shores on Friday, Dec...

#Kairos aground off #Bulgaria

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USN Incident Reports on Truman’s Deployment Cite Preventable Errors The United States Navy released four independent reports on the key incidents that happened while the carrier Harry S. Truman and its Carrier Strike G...

#USN incident report on #CVN #Carrier #Nuclear #HarrySTruman incidents incl. collision with cargovessel

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