Odyssey arrested, COSCO's 24 VLCCs, Arctic LNG 2 ships

Saudi Arabia's energy ministry said the pipeline that carries crude to the Red Sea was targeted on 9 November, causing a limited fire that has been put out, with no disruption to operations. Satellite imagery from 8 November appeared to show damage at the No. 8 pumping station, and Saudi Aramco's office tower in Riyadh was hit at about the same time.

After its 138th session, the IMO Council said at least 130 incidents involving merchant ships have been confirmed in the region since the conflict began. The latest death was aboard Velos Sapphire.

Departures from Ras Laffan ran at 13 to 15 cargoes on a 10-day moving average in early November, against about 11 in October, while 11 laden Qatari LNG carriers left Hormuz in the 10 days to 8 November.

Bulgaria's Interior Ministry believes the human remains found aboard Wine Trader at Varna are those of six of the seven missing seafarers; DNA tests have been ordered. No ship has been attacked off Romania and Bulgaria since 29 October.

The G7+ Ports Network was launched in Marseille on 9 November, bringing in Brazil and South Korea alongside the G7, with intelligence sharing and artificial intelligence at its centre.

The Ministry of Transport will keep its special port charges on US-linked ships suspended until 10 January 2027, matching the US decision on its Section 301 fees.

The American Maritime Partnership has asked the White House to let the emergency waiver, first issued on 17 March and extended twice, lapse on 15 November.

South Korea has given conditional approval for Indonesia's Sinar Mas Group to buy Hyundai LNG Shipping after a foreign investment security review.

Two fishermen pulled a crew member of Ovation of the Seas from the Pacific off Catalina Island on 6 November; the ship appears not to have known he had gone overboard.

A US Coast Guard helicopter hoisted four crew with suspected food poisoning from the 3,900 dwt product tanker Diabelli at anchor off Vieques.

The 97-metre general cargo ship BYB Othello grounded near Anadolu Feneri on 6 November after a reported machinery failure on passage from Kocaeli to Izmail.

The bulk carrier Federal Beaufort struck the moored chemical tanker Hinch Spirit at Section 35 of the port of Montreal on 6 November while the tanker was taking bunkers. Hinch Spirit was damaged on her port quarter and starboard side and Federal Beaufort at the bow; no one was hurt.

The general cargo ships Celtic Endeavour and Aguimes collided near Schülp on 4 November. Aguimes lost a liferaft and damaged her port bow and deck crane before proceeding to Brunsbüttel under her own power, and Celtic Endeavour, damaged forward on her starboard side, continued towards Kiel. An investigation has been opened.

Fire broke out on the ferry GNV Phoenix, formerly Athara, during maintenance and refurbishment in Naples, with a distress call shortly before 19:00. Crew and contractors were evacuated without injury and the port stayed open. The ship, recently bought by the MSC group, was due to enter service in the coming weeks as AF Phoenix on charter to Adria Ferries between Bari and Durrës; the damage has not been disclosed.

Odfjell Drilling has signed a three-year contract worth about $518m for Deepsea Bergen, starting in early 2028 after her Equinor work, with four one-year options.

Petrobras has accepted the Seagems joint venture's bid for the pipelay support vessel Jade, bringing work from 2028 closer.

The claim against a Reach Subsea subsidiary concerns a cable installation tender.

The framework for survey and positioning services across Heerema's heavy-lift fleet now runs from January 2027 to December 2030.

Boluda Shipping has agreed to take over the Matrans terminal in the Eemhaven, its third acquisition in under two weeks after Samskip and Muller Dordrecht.

Regional Container Lines has committed about $213m for two neo-panamax containerships due in 2030 and 2031.

DFDS is repainting Stena Vinga and moving her to the UK register before she returns to the Portsmouth–Jersey route later in November.

Bangladesh has begun building two new container berths at Mongla, which handled 29,714 teu in the 2025-26 fiscal year.