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Friday, 11 September 2026

Maritime Briefing of 11 September 2026

A tanker hit in the Black Sea, a ferry lost off Palawan, and Maersk edges three services back through Suez

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Casualties and security

4 stories

Aerial view of a laden crude oil tanker under way

Drones damaged the Suezmax tanker Siren on a night passage of the Black Sea

The accommodation block was hit at roughly 42 degrees 19 minutes north, 36 degrees 45 minutes east, with no injuries and no oil spill, in the strike on a laden transit.

Drone strike damages Suezmax tanker Siren in the Black SeaFull story · Incident

A passenger ferry under way in poor visibility

Five people died and 86 remain missing after fire aboard a ferry bound for Coron

Forty-three of the 134 on board have been rescued, and a survivor described an explosion from a vehicle hold, in the Palawan casualty.

Five dead and 86 missing after ferry fire on the Manila to Coron runFull story · Incident

Tankers alongside at an industrial port terminal

A tanker and a passenger ferry collided in the approaches to Penang Port

Twenty-one of the 92 people involved were injured, six seriously, and the port commission has ordered a task force, in the 1 September collision.

Ferry and oil tanker collide off Penang Port, injuring 21 peopleFull story · Incident

Twenty-six Filipino seafarers have left the bulk carrier Gingo after an attack in Ukraine

All disembarked safely on 4 September following the strike on the vessel alongside on 2 September, and are awaiting transit to Moldova for repatriation. The Philippine embassy in Warsaw and the honorary consul in Kyiv are processing travel documents with the shipowner.

Trades, corridors and ports

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A laden container ship under way on an export trade

Maersk has resumed Suez transits on three services while warning that strain will persist

AE15, MECL and WAF6 are routed through the canal again, with yard density at Jeddah and King Abdullah Port cited among the pressure points, in the conditional restart.

Maersk resumes limited Suez transits but warns strain will persistFull story · Industry

EU ports handled 3.4 billion tonnes in 2024, and two of them took nearly a fifth of it

Rotterdam moved 397.3 million tonnes against 243.7 million at Antwerp-Bruges and 97 million at third-placed Hamburg, in the tonnage table.

Rotterdam and Antwerp-Bruges still dwarf every other EU port on tonnageFull story · Port activity

A cruise ship passing under a bridge on a coastal approach

MSC Cruises has cancelled the Armonia repositioning voyage to Durban

The 26-night sailing was due to leave Marghera on 1 November through Suez and the Red Sea, in the cancellation.

MSC Cruises cancels the Armonia repositioning voyage to South AfricaFull story · Industry

Two new regional container shuttles have opened on the Indian subcontinent and the Red Sea

X-Press Feeders has launched the weekly Malabar X-Press, a single 1,100 TEU ship on a Colombo, New Mangalore, Cochin, Colombo rotation. T.S. Lines has been running an intra-Red Sea shuttle since July connecting Jeddah and Sokhna with one 4,400 TEU ship.

Egypt has opened nine factories in the Suez Canal Economic Zone worth about 85 million dollars

Local content in some of the plants reaches as high as 90%, part of a policy of tying manufacturing capacity to the shipping routes that pass the zone.

Shipbuilding, offshore and contracts

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A large vessel under construction in a shipyard dry dock

Hanwha Ocean faces a second Singapore arbitration over the same three cancelled Arc7 LNG carriers

The charterer LLC Arctic LNG 2 is claiming about 1.37 trillion won, equal to 22.2% of the yard's projected consolidated net assets, in the new filing.

Hanwha Ocean faces a second billion-dollar claim over Arctic LNG 2 shipsFull story · Industry

Aerial view of ships and wind turbines at a harbour

Dajin Heavy Industry has booked 24 newbuildings worth around 12 billion yuan and is building its own transport fleet

Danaos, Seatankers and Jumbo Maritime are among the owners linked to the yard, in the expansion.

Dajin books 24 newbuildings and builds a heavy transport fleet of its ownFull story · Industry

CIMC has completed the hull of the P-84 for Petrobras, the first large all-electric FPSO

The unit measures 345.3 by 64.8 metres with a moulded depth of 34.3 metres and a total weight above 100,000 tonnes, processing 10 million cubic metres of gas a day and storing 2 million barrels of crude. Zero routine flaring, waste heat recovery and deep-sea water cooling are expected to cut greenhouse gas intensity per barrel of oil equivalent by about 30%. It is destined for an ultra-deepwater pre-salt field in the Santos Basin.

Babcock LGE has won gas systems work for four 88,000 cubic metre VLGCs at Samsung Heavy Industries

The ships are being built in South Korea for Oceonix, with delivery in 2029.

Five more 97-metre Multi-Role Response Vessels have entered construction for the Philippine Coast Guard

The Department of Transportation and Mitsubishi Shipbuilding have formally started the project under the Maritime Safety Capability Improvement Project.

Cargo, crew and consultancy

3 stories

IUMI has published guidance on the insurance consequences of non-compliant wood packaging

Where ISPM 15 marking is missing or incorrect the cargo itself is usually undamaged, but authorities can detain shipments, order fumigation, repacking or destruction, or send a consignment back to origin. Forged marks have drawn large civil penalties and felony convictions in the United States, and groupage shipments spread one shipper's non-compliant dunnage across unrelated cargo interests.

Port of Newcastle has received the final business case for its 220-hectare Clean Energy Precinct

The study, prepared by HPC Hamburg Port Consulting, identifies two viable ownership and commercial structures for a site intended to produce, store, handle and export hydrogen and hydrogen-derived fuels.

Kyklades Maritime has put digital wage access on 18 ships

The Greek tanker owner has adopted the ShipMoney platform for crew advances and payouts across roughly 500 seafarers from Greece, the Philippines and the Balkans, replacing a manual multi-party approval process.

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