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Strong winds have caused an small oil leak during fuel oil removal operations from the grounded car carrier 'Makassar Highway' off the Swedish coast, according to the latest update from the Coast Guard. Approximately 7000 liters of oil have been removed so far by Coast Guard ships. 

An underwater inspection of the Panama-flagged car carrier 'Makassar Highway', which ran aground off Sweden in the afternoon hours of Monday, showed that the vessel's hull has sustained an extensive damage, the Swedish Coast Guard informed. 

An oil spill has been reported after the Panama-flagged car carrier 'Makassar Highway' ran aground in an archipelago north of Vastervik on the Baltic Sea, in the afternoon hours of Monday, according to data provided by Swedish officials. 

During June 25, the first-ever bunkering of liquefied biogas in Sweden, took place at the Port of Gothenburg. 'Fure Vinga' received 40 cubic metres of LBG directly from a road tanker. This LBG bunkering was the second ever globally, and took place without an incident. LBG can be used in vessels that are using LNG.

On June 2, the Swedish Minister for Infrastructure Thomas Eneroth announced the government's decision to proceed with the deepening of the fairways at the Port of Gothenburg. This will allow larger vessels to call at the Port of Gothenburg fully loaded. The new project will increase the maximum depth of the fairways from 13.5 metres to about 16 metres.

The Danish Maritime Authority increased the international work on digitalization and e-navigation as it entered into a cooperation agreement with South Korea, Sweden, Australia and China. The agreement aims to strengthen the focus on digitalization in the maritime sector.

IMO approved the ship routes in Kattegat and Skagerrak after a proposal from Denmark and Sweden. This step is important because of the much larger size of ships navigating the straits today in comparison to the ships that the route systems were originally designed for. About 70,000 ships a year pass through Kattegat and Skagerrak.

Danish shipping company DFDS and its partners from Geminor and Green Cargo tested a new environmentally-friendly transport of the refuse-derived fuel bales, from Geminor’s waste processing and packaging plant in the UK, to Mälerenergi’s power plant in Västerås near Stockholm.

The Stockholm Norvik Port will open in 2020. The project reach its halfway and there is a big amount of activity at the construction site, where buildings, bridges and quays are emerging, while the route for the railway track is simultaneously being prepared. Gigantic supporting casement walls that have been cast on-site are being moved into place on the sea bed using floating structures. Both manpower and machinery pieces from the northern Pajala mine are on hand to take care of the rock material and prepare the way for the railway track. Ports of Stockholm Managing Director, Johan Castwall, noted: The Stockholm Norvik Port is long-awaited. Volumes of both RoRo and container traffic are increasing and vessels are becoming ever larger. Stockholm is growing and the possibilities to create sustainable goods provision is high on the agenda for both ourselves and our customers. There are now around 350 people on-site and more than 500 000 hours have been worked at the Stockholm Norvik Port. Progress is being  made to to welcome the first vessel in 2020.

The Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment and tanker operator Concordia Maritime have initiated a preliminary study to determine the feasibility of gathering information on the volume of micoplastics in the oceans. By installing a collection device on a tanker, water samples can be collected, while the ship is underway, for subsequent analysis.