Tag: Mediterranean Sea

The Red Sea crisis has forced shipping lines to sail around the Cape of Good Hope, increasing sailing distances and de facto increasing transit times as well, Sea-Intelligence notes. 

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) maritime container traffic through the Red Sea has fallen by almost 30% year-on-year, as a result of Houthi attacks on merchant ships off Yemen.

The number of irregular border crossings at the EU’s external border in 2023 reached approximately 380.000, driven by a rise in arrivals via the Mediterranean region, with many cargo vessels called to the rescue. 

On Saturday, at the Blue Mediterranean Partnership's pledging conference, the European Commission committed to pledge €1 millionto the recently established Blue Mediterranean Partnership.

As of 1 May 2025, the Mediterranean Sea will effectively become an Emission Control Area (ECA) for sulphur oxides (SOx) under MARPOL Annex VI Regulation 14, DNV reminds in a new statutory alert.

According to International news, in an apparent Western effort to offset China's worldwide ambitions, the United States and the European Union have supported the building of an economic corridor, connecting India to the Middle East and the Mediterranean.

Between Thursday, August 3 and Friday, August 4, 41 migrants are believed to have died in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea.

The 80th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), 3-7 July 2023, agreed to designate a particular sensitive sea area in the North-Western Mediterranean Sea (NW Med PSSA) to protect cetaceans from international shipping.

On June 14th, a fishing boat transporting refugees hundreds of and migrants and refugees sank off Greece, resulting in 78 people dead and many missing.

Minerva Bunkering launched its physical supply operation in the Suez Canal after receiving its license in Egypt.