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The Transport Ministry issued a ban on Turkish-flagged commercial yachts and regular passenger ships sailing to Greece as of Sept. 25 after the Greek authorities seized 11 vessels for allegedly violating a maritime regulation overseeing the quality of international sea transportation.

Speculation intensified on Wednesday about the activities of fuel smuggling rackets in Greece following the arrest of the captain and first engineer of a vessel helping to clean up the oil spill from the sunken Agia Zoni II tanker. 

Dozens of perfectly preserved ancient shipwrecks have been found at the bottom of the Black Sea.

A total of 60 wrecks were discovered dating back as far as 2,500 years, including galleys from the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires.

Scientists stumbled upon the graveyard while using underwater robots to survey the effects of climate change along the Bulgarian coast.

The captain and first engineer of one of the ships helping in the effort to clean up an oil spill from a sunken tanker in the Saronic Gulf has been arrested for fuel smuggling, the ANA-MPA news agency reported on Wednesday.

Members of three international field expeditions that explored the Black Sea between 2015 and 2017 presented the results of their work on Tuesday in the Black Sea port of Burgas.

The Black Sea MAP project, one of the largest maritime archaeological projects ever, revealed 60 well-preserved shipwrecks that illustrate the history of more than two millennia of seafaring.

Greece's merchant marine minister says clean-up crews are working to contain pollution caused by a small tanker that sank over the weekend off a Greek island.

The rise of the Baltic Dry Index on Monday reflects a growing consensus among analysts and investors that dry-bulk cargo shipping is on solid ground.

On Monday, the index was at 1.260 points - up 33 percent since the beginning of the year, and 84 percent over the last 12 months.

A right-wing group that set sail on the Mediterranean to stop refugees reaching Europe is facing a cash crisis after a crowd-funding company cancelled their account, the Independent reported. 

Defend Europe had raised more than a 0,000 on payment website Patreon to fund their mission to obstruct NGO vessels from rescuing migrants who had set sail from North Africa.

Several people have been injured after a whaling has hit a sport fishing vessel at sea near the Australian coast. The 9-meter-long craft returned with eight passengers aboard a Whitsundays port, when a whale hit and knocked them underwater, lifting the vessel in the air, the French press reported, quoted by BTA.

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd announced on Friday it has won an order to build four Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCC) from Greek company Maran Tankers Management.

Daewoo has undertaken to complete the construction of the carriers by August 20, 2019.

[Reuters]